Biden headed to Hanoi for a 24-hour stop aimed at upgrading the diplomatic relationship between Vietnam and the United States.
NEW DELHI — President Biden gathered with some of the world’s top leaders Sunday morning at a memorial site for Mohandas K. Gandhi, one of history’s foremost independence figures known for espousing nonviolent resistance, at a time when the world’s richest nations are consumed by debate over Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.At Biden’s final stop here, he and other leaders in the Group of 20 each greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
He is scheduled to hold a meeting in the afternoon with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong before an evening news conference. They are scheduled to announce a comprehensive strategic partnership, which will link the countries diplomatically to a greater extent. “As remarkable as the past two decades have been, I believe … that our relationship is just getting started,” Biden said at the time.“I never thought, as a kid coming out of the Vietnam War era, that we would have Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos wanting closer relationships with the United States of America,” Biden said recently.
“It’s outrageous that President Biden has chosen to upgrade diplomatic ties with Vietnam at a time when the one-party state is in the middle of a brutal crackdown on activism, dissent, and civil society,” Ben Swanton, co-director of Project 88, a U.S.-based human rights organization focused on Vietnam, said in a statement.
Biden came to the conference determined to try to showcase that the G-20 can maintain its relevance, particularly after Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin sent deputies instead of attending themselves amid tensions over the war in Ukraine.Asked whether Xi’s absence affected the summit, Biden said on Saturday, “It would be nice to have him here but, no, the summit is going well.
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