The US has ended a 50-year arms embargo on communist Vietnam in the latest push to strengthen opposition to Chinese territorial ambitions in Asia’s seas.
Barack Obama used yesterday’s first full day of a visit to Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, to announce that the US was lifting the weapons sales ban and hoped for growing co-operation between the two countries’ militaries.
Analysts said the US president’s decision to sweep away this “lingering vestige of the cold war” was a sign that both states considered their shared aim of checking Beijing more important than mutual suspicions.
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