Biden wants to further deepen relations with Vietnam. But he also takes time to remember Senator John McCain. McCain also had a special connection to Vietnam.
US President Joe Biden laid flowers at a memorial for the late Senator John McCain during his short trip to Vietnam. “I miss him. He was a good friend,” Biden said.
The Republican died of a brain tumor in 2018. As a Navy pilot, McCain was taken prisoner of war in the Vietnam War and was tortured. He was only released after five years.
In 1985 he visited Vietnam again for the first time as a congressman. In the years that followed, he negotiated, among other things, the end of the last US embargo against Vietnam in 2016 and traveled to the country again and again – most recently in 2017. In Vietnam, McCain was ultimately considered a friend. The monument by a lake commemorates the events of that time.
Biden wanted to make progress in Hanoi
Biden arrived in Hanoi on Sunday following the G20 summit in India. There he held discussions with leading representatives of the country and business people. The former war opponents Vietnam and the USA announced on Sunday that they were upgrading their diplomatic relations.
The USA has long been trying to expand its alliance with Vietnam. As a result of China’s rise, communist Vietnam, along with traditional allies such as the Philippines and Thailand, represents an important building block in Washington’s Indo-Pacific strategy. Biden has made the Indo-Pacific region a priority of his policy.
Biden left for the USA in the afternoon (local time). There, the Democrat wants to remember the victims at a memorial ceremony with military members in the US state of Alaska on the anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001. Various commemorative events are planned across the country.
On September 11, 2001, Islamist terrorists hijacked four planes and flew them into, among other places, the World Trade Center in New York. Almost 3,000 people died in the devastating attacks.
Source: Stern
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