Tag: Vietnam

The U.S. destroyer Curtis Wilbur passed within 12 nautical miles of Triton Island on Saturday morning local time, challenging China's, Taiwan's and Vietnam's claims in the area, said Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Jonathan Peterson/Released)

National Security

McCain ‘encouraged’ that warship sailed near disputed island

Jacqueline Klimas · February 1, 2016 3:44 pm

A group of American POWs are released by the Viet Cong at Loc Ninh, 75 miles north of Saigon, Feb. 12, 1973. (AP Photo)

GOP lawmaker seeks a new POW committee

Curt Mills · February 1, 2016 5:01 am

As in China, Vietnam's population control regime has been a victim of its own success. (AP Photo)

Vietnam reconsiders its two-child policy

Daniel Allott · January 11, 2016 7:38 pm

Weekly Standard editor says Trump may force conservatives to revamp or replace the GOP. (Washington Examiner archives)

Conservative pundit to Trump: You’re ‘dead to me’

Becket Adams · July 20, 2015 5:57 pm

Kerry Invokes Vietnam at Iran Talks: ‘I Never Wanted To Go To War Again’

Shoshana Weissmann · July 16, 2015 10:14 am

President Obama accepted an invitation to visit Vietnam some time in his remaining time in office, during a meeting with Vietnamese communist party leader Nguyen Phu Trong. (AP Photo)

Obama accepts invitation to visit Vietnam

Susan Crabtree · July 8, 2015 12:41 pm

President Obama will welcome Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of Vietnam's Communist Party, to the White House Tuesday. (AP Photo)

Head of Vietnam’s Communist Party to visit White House

Kelly Cohen · July 7, 2015 11:55 am

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

Could the last Vietnam veteran be retiring?

Emily Leayman · July 1, 2015 5:38 pm

U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, front left, shakes hands with his Vietnamese counterpart Gen. Phung Quang Thanh, front right, after the two signed a joint vision statement between the two defense ministries in Hanoi, Vietnam Monday, June 1, 2015. Carter is on a three-day visit to Vietnam to deepen military cooperation between the two former foes. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)

National Security

Pentagon chief shores up Asian allies amid China flap

Tara Copp · June 2, 2015 1:54 pm

In this April 8, 2010 photo released by China's Xinhua news agency on Friday April 23, 2010, Chinese marines take train on the Chigua Skerry of the Spratly Islands. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zha Chunming)

Obama’s showdown with China in the Spratlys

Arthur Herman · May 20, 2015 9:00 am

Skeptics say President Obama is kicking himself in the foot with a trip to Nike's Beaverton, Ore., campus Friday to extol the virtues of free trade. (AP Photo)Â

Activists on Obama’s Nike trade trip: Just don’t do it

Susan Crabtree · May 7, 2015 9:00 am

Vietnam Vet Tells Kids to Go Home and Study

Daniel Halper · April 28, 2015 12:12 pm