Headline RoundupMay 23rd, 2016
US Lifts Vietnam Arms Embargo
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Some see this as a rebuke to China.
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US Will Sell Arms to Vietnam Again, With Eye on ChinaNew York Times (News)
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During a news conference in Hanoi, President Obama said the decades-long embargo on lethal weapons sales would be lifted.
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From the Left
Obama, muted on human rights, lifts arms embargo on VietnamPolitico
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Standing a block from the corpse of Ho Chi Minh, the president said nothing about democratic reform.
From the Right
US lifts Vietnam arms embargo in move to counter ChinaFox News (Online News)
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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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