{"id":5592,"date":"2023-04-18T22:14:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T02:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2023-04-18T22:14:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T02:14:50","slug":"us-vietnam-pledge-to-boost-ties-as-blinken-visits-hanoi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2023\/04\/18\/us-vietnam-pledge-to-boost-ties-as-blinken-visits-hanoi\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Vietnam pledge to boost ties as Blinken visits Hanoi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-vietnam-blinken-china-b208e75ba674ae7f6c77e481f818031a\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For decades after the Vietnam War, U.S. and Vietnamese government relations weren\u2019t hostile, but also not at the top of either\u2019s agenda. The U.S. didn\u2019t find it in it\u2019s national interest to continue focusing on Vietnam relations until very recently. Last Saturday, just after the 50th anniversary of the U.S. pulling out of Vietnam, U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin visited Vietnam to visit Prime Minster Pham Minh Chinh and break ground on the new U.S. embassy in the capital. Elevated focus on creating good relations with the countries around China has been a top priority in the past few years. While Vietnam hasn\u2019t had the cleanest record surrounding human rights, the U.S. is willing to look past this and prioritize keeping China in it\u2019s current position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is simply another instance of the U.S. employing off-shore balancing to prop up a possible regional power, or at the very least, ally, in order to curb China\u2019s power. In the international arena, it\u2019s clear that other powers are catching up to the U.S., and in order for the U.S. to hold on to some of their power and influence, it\u2019s necessary for them to facilitate cooperation with regional allies. The creation of the U.S. embassy was a direct response to China\u2019s economic and militaristic expansion throughout the region. The String of Pearls strategy shows how calculated China can be when it comes to encircling another possible regional power, and the U.S. is definitely setting up a similar scheme by having no lack of military and diplomatic bases very close to China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This ties into the debate about how U.S. national interest plays a huge part in who can be charged by the ICC. I don\u2019t think that Vietnam\u2019s human rights violations were enough to get anyone put on ICC charges, but it does seem to be another case of the U.S. overlooking international norms and laws because it\u2019s doesn\u2019t fit their national interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades after the Vietnam War, U.S. and Vietnamese government relations weren\u2019t hostile, but also not at the top of either\u2019s agenda. The U.S. didn\u2019t find it in it\u2019s national interest to continue focusing on Vietnam relations until very recently. Last Saturday, just after the 50th anniversary of the U.S. pulling out of Vietnam, U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinkin&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2023\/04\/18\/us-vietnam-pledge-to-boost-ties-as-blinken-visits-hanoi\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}