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AP: Vietnam wants to buy arms from the U.S.

10/9/2014

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The Associated Press reported last week that Vietnam is interested in purchasing arms from the U.S., and the government is of the opinion that China will not be bothered by the possibility.
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh said it has been nearly 20 years since Washington and Hanoi normalized relations, and so it’s “abnormal” to retain the ban.

“If we do not buy weapons from the United States, we (would) still buy from other countries,” Minh said at the Asia Society. “Why should China bother about that?”

Read more at the Mojave Daily News website.
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