BEIJING — A U.S. Navy warship sailed past one of China's artificial islands in the South China Sea on Tuesday, in a challenge to Chinese sovereignty claims that drew an angry protest from Beijing, which said the move damaged U.S.-China relations and regional peace. China's Foreign ...
... collapse of the Soviet Union, we had normal ties with Vietnam, with whom we fought a war, let's forget this and put it behind us, we saw the foreign minister of Cuba saying, look, you tell us about human rights, but that in fact we have some issues with ...
... WILLIAM BRANGHAM: Joining us now to discuss the escalating tensions on the South China Sea and what role the U.S. should play is Kenneth Lieberthal. He was a senior director for Asia on the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, and now a senior fellow at the ...
... is Vietnam, which Carter is scheduled to visit during this 11-day trip across Asia. Others are Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan. Carter said the U.S. will continue to sail, fly and operate in the region, and warned that the Pentagon will be sending its "best platforms and people ...
... a rock star. MIKE CERRE: Vietnam's economic growth has been exponential since its adoption of a market-based economy and the lifting of the U.S. trade embargo after diplomatic relations were restored in 1995. Luxury goods, once unfathomable here before and after the war, are an extreme symbol ...
... to be in the game itself," Evan A. Feigenbaum, a former deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, said at a recent conference on U.S.-China economic relations. "In the full sweep and scope of Asia institutions, agreements, functional areas, clearly the United States, if it's going ...
... MIKE CERRE: Some of the most indelible images of the Vietnam War came during its final hours of April 30, 1975. After more than thirteen years of military involvement, 58,220 Americans killed, along with millions of Vietnamese. It came down to this desperate evacuation of nearly two thousand ...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s U.S. visit came at a critical moment in the fight to establish a sweeping Trans-Pacific Partnership. An agreement could mean hundreds of billions of dollars in business, exports and profits, but opponents warn it would cost American jobs and give foreign corporations too much legal power. Gwen Ifill talks to...
Officials have been saying that the U.S. knows how to stop Ebola, but now another nurse has been infected. What's gone wrong? Judy Woodruff talks to Laurie Garrett of the Council on Foreign Relations.
At the time it was built, the canal was an engineering marvel, relying on a series of locks that lift ships – and their thousands of pounds of cargo – above mountains. But thousands of workers died during its construction, and its history has seen no shortage of controversy, including a contentious transference of authority...
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