08:39 31/08/2021
US Vice President Kamala Harris’ high-profile visit to Vietnam aimed to bolster economic and security ties between the two former enemies. Right on the heels of a visit by US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Mrs. Harris came to my country at a very significant moment, right when the fall of Kabul was reminding the world about the fall of Saigon in 1975, and when Chinese state-run media was striving to portray the United States as unreliable, hinting at the same “fate” for Taiwan.