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Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (L) and US President Joe Biden at the 10th ASEAN - US Summit in Phnom Penh on November 12. (Photo: VNA) Phnom Penh (VNA) – Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with US President Joe Biden on November 12 within the framework of the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits and Related Summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The two leaders affirmed they treasure and give high priority to the Vietnam - US comprehensive partnership and agreed to increase dialogues at all levels, especially high-level ones, via flexible forms. In the short term, the two countries will coordinate to properly prepare for the coming phone talks between General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and President Biden, and work to arrange high-level mutual visits at suitable points of time when possible. President Biden suggested the two countries strongly push ahead with bilateral cooperation and capitalise on the untapped potential … [Read more...] about PM Pham Minh Chinh meets with US President Joe Biden in Phnom Penh

The two leaders affirmed they treasure and give high priority to the Vietnam - U.S. comprehensive partnership and agreed to increase dialogues at all levels, especially high-level ones, via flexible forms. In the short term, the two countries will coordinate to properly prepare for the coming phone talks between General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and President Biden, and work to arrange high-level mutual visits at suitable points of time when possible. President Biden suggested the two countries strongly push ahead with bilateral cooperation and capitalize on the untapped potential to develop the  relations intensively and effectively, especially in the fields of mutual interests, thereby actively contributing to regional and global peace, stability, cooperation, and development. On this occasion, PM Chinh conveyed Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s invitations to President Biden to visit Vietnam. The U.S. … [Read more...] about PM Pham Minh Chinh meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in Phnom Penh

The leaders of the world's two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases met at the G20 summit on the Indonesian island of Bali where climate change will be competing for time with issues such as the global economy and Russia's war in Ukraine. Their agreement to talk again about climate thawed relations frozen earlier this year after U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi angered China by visiting Taiwan. News of the rapprochement came just as COP27 climate negotiators at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh were looking for a sign that G20 nations were willing to stump up more cash and fresh commitments in the fight against rising global temperatures. Teresa Ribera, Spain's climate minister, said she was hopeful that the rapprochement would energise negotiations. "The two biggest emitters need to be cooperative and ambitious," she told Reuters. Manish Bapna, president and CEO of the environmental group Natural Resources Defense Council, called it "essential". "This unequivocal signal … [Read more...] about Biden-Xi climate cooperation to energize COP27 negotiations

After this election, America is more divided than before, politically and socially. It was again midterm time in America. It was the GOP’s hope, expectation, and firm belief that America would indeed be overrun by the so-called Red Wave across this country which implied a land like a victory for the GOP in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, meaning that this party could come from now on control the US congress so that it could make US president Joe Biden's last half of his first president's tenure to a painful journey to the hell. It would be the ambiance the former Republican president Donald Trump was eager to have to announce his intention to run again for the White House in 2024. A Red Wave would cement his leading position and deciding influences in the Republican Party. Midterm voting in Kissimmee, Florida, on November 8. Photo: AFP/VNA But the midterm results, even the ballots counting process has not yet finished, were a big shock and … [Read more...] about Shock for one, fortune for other

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (L) and US Vice President Kamala Harris (Photo: VNA) Bangkok (VNA) – President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 18 met US Vice President Kamala Harris in Bangkok , as both are in Thailand to attend the 29th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting . Expressing their delights at the strong growth of the Vietnam-US comprehensive partnership, they affirmed the bilateral ties have a solid foundation and comprehensive and substantive cooperation across all fields, especially economy and trade. Phuc stated Vietnam always takes the US a top important partner and hopes to make their relations more substantive, stable and in-depth based on basic principles. He took the occasion to send his invitation to US President Joe Biden to soon pay a visit to Vietnam, and said he welcomes the upcoming phone talks between General Secretary of the Communist Party Nguyen Phu Trong and Biden, suggesting the sides carefully prepare for the event. Appreciating the US’s … [Read more...] about President meets US Vice President on APEC meeting sidelines

For China and the US, the Biden - Xi Jinping Bali talks implied no improvements but no deteriorations in their bilateral relationship, and not any deterioration at this moment is as significant as any possible improvement. Ahead of this year's annual G20 summit in Indonesia's Bali, China's and US presidents Xi Jinping and Joe Biden held their first in-person talks since Joe Biden became US president while the China-US relations are at their lowest in decades and full of disagreements over many issues. They rank from Taiwan to Hongkong, from Chinese trade practices to US restrictions on Chinese technology, from the South China Sea to the war in Ukraine. China's President Xi Jinping and US President Joe Biden. Photo: AFP/VNA Pointing outward, both China's Xi and US's Biden seemed to deliberately show goodwill and pragmatism, flexibility, and engagement too, according to Xi Jinping's words, "steer the bilateral relationship in the right direction". But in … [Read more...] about A little bit détente