Vietnam had successfully contained the coronavirus for most of last year but since April has been dealing with a large COVID-19 outbreak in Ho Chi Minh City, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant of the virus. It was not immediately clear which vaccine China had donated. Seem they grounded the fool to spare us the shame after her warm welcome in. "The fact that China's ambassador insisted on a meeting with the Vietnamese prime minister shortly before Harris landed shows how anxious Beijing is that its communist neighbor may tilt toward the US," said Murray Hiebert, a Southeast Asia expert at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies.ĭuring the meeting, Chinh thanked the ambassador for the vaccine donation. Harris safely returns to air base after plane has technical issue while. The US administration has called rivalry with China "the biggest geopolitical test" of the century. Vice President Kamala Harris' first international trip got off to a rocky start when her plane was forced to fly back to Joint Base Andrews due to a 'technical. Territorial disputes in the South China Sea should be settled according to international law and "high-level common sense," it said. "Vietnam does not align itself with one country against another," it said. "The Prime Minister affirmed that Vietnam adheres to an independent, self-reliant, multilateral, and diverse foreign policy and is a responsible member of the international community," the Vietnamese government said in a statement. The incident came as Washington faces icy relations with another global competitor, China.Īs Harris's trip to Vietnam was delayed, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held the unannounced meeting with Chinese Ambassador Xiong Bo, during which Chinh said Vietnam does not align itself with one country against any other.Įarlier on Tuesday, Harris had accused Beijing of coercion and intimidation to back claims in the South China Sea, her most pointed comments on China during a visit to Southeast Asia, a region she said is critical to US security. The CIA sees a "very strong possibility" that the syndrome is intentionally caused, and that Russia could be responsible, but is withholding definitive conclusions pending further investigation. officials and kin, including CIA officers, have been sickened by "Havana syndrome," CIA Director William Burns has said.Ī US National Academy of Sciences panel in December found that a plausible theory is that "directed energy" beams caused the syndrome, which is so named because it first was reported by American officials based in the US embassy in Cuba in 2016. "The Vice President's office was made aware of a report of a recent possible anomalous health incident in Hanoi," the local U.S. A safety assessment was done before sending Harris to the country, she said. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the Havana syndrome case was reported in Vietnam before Harris' departure but not confirmed.
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