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© Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Harris says U.S. will provide Vietnam with 1 million vaccine doses
By ALEXANDRA JAFFE HANOI©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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JeffLee
Brilliant foreign policy. The Vietnamese have access to Sino-VAc, but they associate it, and thus China, with unreliability and shoddiness. They crave the Western vaccines and are willing to dump the Chinese product.
When they get the US gift, many Vietnamese will associate it with kindness, progress and reliability of the country it came from.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/commentary-vietnams-attitude-towards-chinese-vaccines-very-telling-2022376
Japan tried something similar, though they gave away huge amounts of their vaccine while hardly anyone in Japan was vaccinated! LOL.
yakyak
You Can't See the Psychological Operation at Work here?
ShinkansenCaboose
Harris rocks
Ping An
There were too many visits from senior US Officials (Blinken and Austin) to Vietnam recently. Kamala should concentrate on her south border's project.
Hello Kitty 321
Pity they can't send more to Japan.
Trinity
Youre serious?
ReynardFox
Huh. It’s almost as if soft power like economic aid and cultural exchange is far more effective at regime change than almost a decade of armed conflict. Who would have thought?
RichardPearce
Well, it's not nothing, but it will still leave Vietnam in desperate need of affordable vaccine doses, and lagging behind Cuba and Iran in vaccination rates.
And with the US deciding a third, booster dose takes priority over first doses for Vietnam after the gift, well, maybe the time has come for Vietnam to seriously evaluate its relationship with the US.
PS, in the past month, Cuba went from being 15% behind Japan to basically tied, due to its partnership with Iran in manufacturing highly effective vaccines. Maybe it's time for Japan to also contemplate what being tied to American foreign policy costs it, too.
Septim Dynasty
Losing Vietnam's relations also means losing Japan.
Japan needs to step up its game if it does not want to lose SCS access as well as the vibrant market of Vietnamese people.
FizzBit
Well looks like Harris and Biden have just been told by China to get in the back of the truck.
well I’d say the folks handling the Biden administration are not too sharp.
Strangerland
Yeah, but China's vaccine is only half as effective.
But you're correct, once again your country is a failure.
bass4funk
China and Russia are doing the same.
China wants African and Afghan lithium and other minerals, you think the Chinese will help these nations to battle human and sexual rights abuses? Do you think it's good that the Chinese are blundering all of Africa's resources?
But the Chinese can succeed and funny how now the Vietnamese and the US are strengthening their ties.
Well, he was after all their leader, be odd to put MLK up there.