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Advertisement In the half-century since the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Vietnam, the two former enemies have evolved into de facto strategic partners, driven together by shared concerns about the power of a rising China. But many of the scars from the long U.S. intervention in Vietnam remain, and each step toward normalization […]
BANGKOK (AP) — A U.S. aircraft carrier and two guided missile cruisers were visiting Vietnam on Monday, a rare port call that comes as the United States and China increasingly vie for influence in Southeast Asia. The USS Ronald Reagan, along with the guided missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Robert Smalls, arrived in Da […]
Nuclear-powered USS Ronald Reagan is only the third US aircraft carrier to visit Vietnam since the war ended in 1975. The US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan is due to stop in Central Vietnam’s port city of Danang in a rare visit by a United States warship to a once wartime enemy. The aircraft […]
HANOI, June 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan will stop at Central Vietnam’s port city of Danang on Sunday in a rare visit for a U.S. warship to the southeast Asian nation, as tensions with Beijing in the South China Sea remain high. The ship will arrive on Sunday afternoon and […]
HANOI, May 12 (Reuters) – Vietnamese electric automaker VinFast (VFS.O) said on Friday it will list in the U.S. via a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Black Spade Acquisition Co (BSAQ . . .
LAWRENCE — In 1968, the United States Army was fighting two wars: one against enemy forces in Vietnam, the other in its own barracks between soldiers of different races. This racial unrest among the troops led to murders, riots, beatings, burnings and mass refusal to follow orders. A new generation of Black GIs were rejecting […]
Fifty years after the Vietnam War, the United States, Vietnam and much of the rest of the world continue to wrestle with its legacy and consequences. In addition to the human toll—more than 58,000 American military personnel were killed along with estimates of nearly 1.5 million North and South Vietnamese troops and at least 2 million […]
During the Vietnam war, thousands of American soldiers fathered children with Vietnamese women. Little is known about the plight of these Amerasians. Mothers often abandoned their babies, gave them away to orphanages and destroyed any evidence of their relationships with the American servicemen who had returned home. Many Amerasians grew up destitute and were dismissed […]
HANOI, April 15 (Reuters) – Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed a willingness on Saturday to upgrade bilateral ties as the U.S. seeks to balance an increasingly assertive China. In his first visit to the key southeast Asian country as the top U.S. diplomat, Blinken met Prime […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Wednesday marks the 50th anniversary of U.S. combat troops leaving South Vietnam and the beginning of the end to the United States’ direct military involvement in the Vietnam War. The withdrawal of U.S. troops was one of the key provisions of the Paris Peace treaty signed in January 1973 by the […]