Headline Roundup • May 23rd, 2016
US Lifts Vietnam Arms Embargo
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Some see this as a rebuke to China.
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US Will Sell Arms to Vietnam Again, With Eye on China
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During a news conference in Hanoi, President Obama said the decades-long embargo on lethal weapons sales would be lifted.
Obama, muted on human rights, lifts arms embargo on Vietnam
Politico
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Standing a block from the corpse of Ho Chi Minh, the president said nothing about democratic reform.
US lifts Vietnam arms embargo in move to counter China
Fox News Digital
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President Obama lifted the decades-long U.S. arms embargo against Vietnam on Monday in an apparent effort to shore up the communist country's defenses against an increasingly aggressive China – though he faced criticism that the move takes away U.S. leverage to press for human rights freedoms.
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