Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Trade buries the hostilities: a new era for US-Vietnamese ties

The US, on the other hand, wants to learn from its past mistakes and acknowledge that trade alone can help it establish the strategic leverages (it was in 1994 that US had lift ed the trade embargo against Hanoi. The trade between the two was worth US $ 9.7 billion at the end of 2006) and bury the existing anti-Americanism in the region. Bush is also telling the Vietnamese about the importance of multi-party rule and democracy

The magnanimity displayed by the erstwhile foes bears testimony to the fact that over the last three decades, the world has indeed moved a large distance away from the barriers erected by ideology. It is a welcome development that economic imperatives are now guiding the two nations to resolve their long-pending differences amicably.
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Source: IIPM Editorial, 2006

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