Economics
Obama Says U.S., Vietnam Moving Beyond ‘Difficult History’
He meets at the White House with Nguyen Phu Trong, Vietnam’s Communist Party leader.
US President Barack Obama and Vietnamese General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong meet in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, July 7, 2015.
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President Barack Obama said the “difficult history” between the U.S. and Vietnam is being replaced by a relationship based on mutual economic and security interests in a region where some nations are wary of China’s rise.
Obama met at the White House on Tuesday with Communist Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong, who invited him to visit Vietnam. The president said that while differences remain in areas including human rights and religious freedom, the two countries are developing “a constructive relationship.”