Aircraft Carrier Visit Elevates Vietnam-US Ties: Experts

VnExpress International

12 March 2020

American aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt’s recent visit to Vietnam has strengthened bilateral relations and opportunities for security cooperation, experts said. Dr Olli Pekka Suorsa from RSIS expects US vessels to make more frequent port calls in Vietnam hereafter, and “this creates an extended deterrence effect, something Vietnam’s omnidirectional defense diplomacy has sought to achieve in its simultaneous engagement of multiple friendly militaries in the region and outside.”

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