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Opinion: The US-Vietnam Relationship – 20 Years Later
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Jul 14, 2015
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US President Barack Obama earlier this month met with Vietnam’s Communist Party general secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong, a rare occurrence for the president to meet with a mere party leader. But the encounter is emblematic of the slowly thawing relations between the two nations after 40 year of off-again, on-again contacts.

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