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Vietnam and the US: Need for Each Other

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Oct 03, 2013
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Vietnam, faced with a variety of domestically-generated problems and a geographical proximity to a China too close for comfort, has a major stake in the shift of the American focus from the Atlantic to the Pacific, welcoming the United States as a resident Pacific power to balance Vietnam's often-belligerent neighbor to the north.

Certainly Vietnam, whi…

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