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U.S. says completes second aircraft carrier visit to Vietnam

Published 03/11/2020, 12:54 PM
Updated 03/11/2020, 12:56 PM
U.S. says completes second aircraft carrier visit to Vietnam

HANOI, March 11 (Reuters) - The United States has completed
its second aircraft carrier visit to Vietnam, the U.S. Embassy
in Hanoi said on Wednesday, as the former foes mark 25 years of
normalised diplomatic relations.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt and its escorts completed a
five-day visit to the central Vietnamese city of Danang on March
9, the embassy said in a statement.
"Visits like these not only strengthen the United States'
partnership with Vietnam, but they also continue to ensure peace
and stability and freedom of commerce across the region,"
Ambassador Daniel Kritenbrink said, according to the statement.
The port call follows a stop by the USS Carl Vinson in
Vietnam in March 2018, in what was the first such visit since
the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, underscoring growing
strategic ties between Hanoi and Washington at a time when
China's regional influence is rising. U.S. carriers frequently cross the disputed South China Sea
and are routinely shadowed by Chinese navy vessels, naval
officers in the region say.
The United States accuses China of militarising the South
China Sea and trying to intimidate Asian neighbours who also
have claims to parts of it and might want to exploit its
extensive oil and gas reserves.
Vietnam has emerged as the most vocal opponent of China's
extensive territorial claims to the sea and has been buying U.S.
military hardware, such as a Hamilton-class coastguard cutter.
Last year, Vietnam and China became embroiled in a
months-long standoff over incursions by Chinese survey vessels
into Vietnam's exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
The United States and Vietnam normalised relations in July
1995.

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