How the Biden presidency will impact Vietnam


President-elect Joe Biden and Jill Biden, arrive at the Philadelphia Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Veterans Day, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020, in Philadelphia. - AP

HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Last-minute legal wrangles notwithstanding, Joe Biden is expected to be sworn in as the United States’ 46th President on Jan 20,2021. In the West, the election of a moderate political veteran has been resoundingly welcomed as a cool breeze to temper the “fire” that marked the Trump years.

Asia’s take on this regime change has been a little more ambivalent – and particularly so in Vietnam, it seems.

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Vietnam , Biden , Brian Spence , contributor

   

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