Harris Urges More China Pressure in Meeting With Vietnam Leader
- Vice president presses U.S. diplomatic offensive in SE Asia
- Trip was delayed over ‘anomalous health incident’ in Hanoi
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Vice President Kamala Harris urged countries in the region to apply more pressure on China in a meeting with Vietnam’s president, stepping up her criticism of Beijing on a visit to Asia.
“We need to find ways to pressure and raise the pressure, frankly, on Beijing to abide by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and to challenge its bullying and excessive maritime claims,” Harris said at the start of a meeting in Hanoi with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.