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#18168917 at 2023-01-18 18:32:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22278: Donald Trump is preparing to come back to Twitter Edition

Vietnam President Nguyen Xuan Phuc Resigns Amid Major Anti-Graft Purge
By John Boudreau/Bloomberg
January 17, 2023 6:06 AM EST

ietnam's president stepped down and was ousted from the Communist Party's top bodies in an unparalleled shakeup, as leader Nguyen Phu Trong's anti-corruption purge casts an ever-widening net.

The party's central committee approved Nguyen Xuan Phuc's request to resign from all his positions, including member of the Politburo and president, according to a statement on the Communist Party's website.

His ouster comes shortly after two deputy premiers - former top diplomat Pham Binh Minh and Vu Duc Dam, who led the response to Covid-19 - resigned to take responsibility for bribery investigations tied to repatriation flights and a manufacturer of Covid-19 test kits, respectively.

https://time.com/6247672/vietnam-president-Phuc-resigns-corruption-purge/

#18163277 at 2023-01-17 21:16:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22271: DAVOS Follies Edition

Vietnamese president resigns, criticised for major scandals

Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc resigned Tuesday, becoming the most senior member of the government to step down after a series of high-profile corruption scandals for which he was held responsible.
The state Vietnam News Agency reported that he had resigned at a session of the ruling Communist Party's Central Committee that was held "to consider and give opinions on Comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc's wish to stop holding positions, quit work and retire."
The language of the announcement strongly suggested that he was forced to step down.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/vietnamese-president-resigns-criticised-for-major-scandals/178be4b3-d3fc-4408-b692-a078a6e5752e

#14451319 at 2021-08-25 04:33:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18281: Things are not as they seem Edition

>>14451280
https://twitter.com/Quicktake/status/1430381780197064706

HAPPENING NOW: U.S. VP Kamala Harris holds a bilateral meeting with Vietnam's President Nguyen Xuan Phuc

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-25/u-s-said-to-offer-vietnam-more-vaccine-help-as-harris-visits

#11666360 at 2020-11-16 10:56:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14895: There Is NO President

Why China and a Bloc of Nations Led by Vietnam Just Met but Ignored Asia's Biggest Maritime Dispute
By Ralph Jennings
November 16, 2020 03:53 AM

TAIPEI, TAIWAN - China and leaders from 10 Southeast Asian countries who held annual summits this month sidestepped a sticky maritime sovereignty question to focus on trade and COVID-19, signaling a tough year ahead for the rival nations, experts believe.

Apart from polite acknowledgements of the dispute, which engulfs about 90% of the South China Sea including prime fisheries and energy-exploration tracts, Beijing and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) barely touched on the issue at the 37th ASEAN Summit November 12-15.

More robust discussions focused on China's international COVID-19 response and a long-awaited signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade deal. Those topics elevated everyone's mood, analysts say, while no one had any new proposals for easing the maritime spat despite a volatile past year dominated by U.S. pushback over Chinese activity in the sea.

"Amidst this celebratory mood, I don't think they would dampen that with something very harsh on the South China Sea," said Oh Ei Sun, senior fellow with the Singapore Institute of International Affairs.

ASEAN members Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and summit host Vietnam vie with the militarily stronger China in the sovereignty dispute.

Over the past decade of South China Sea incidents, China has angered Vietnam with an oil rig and survey ships, startled Malaysia with coast guard passages and inflamed the Philippines by taking over a disputed fishing-rich shoal. China alarmed all the claimants by using landfill to build and occupy disputed islets in the sea. Officials in Beijing cite historical usage records to back their claims.

Summit Host Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc noted the issue in passing during an ASEAN-China Summit, one in a series of breakout meetings.
MORE AT LINK:
https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/voa-news-china/why-china-and-bloc-nations-led-vietnam-just-met-ignored-asias

#11656158 at 2020-11-15 16:33:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14882: WE ARE GOING TO SHOW THE PUBLIC Edition

Asia forms world's largest trading bloc RCEP after years of talks

Fifteen countries spanning the Asia-Pacific region on Sunday signed the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, creating the world's largest trading bloc that promises to help speed up the members' post-pandemic growth.

The 15 countries are China, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, along with the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Together, they account for around 30% of the world's gross domestic product and population. This marks the first time China enters a nonbilateral free trade agreement of this scale. Coming at a time when the U.S. is less enthusiastic about joining global trade deals and talks on a post-Brexit trade deal between the European Union and the U.K. stall, Asia looks to take the lead in shaping the new global trade architecture.

The newly signed free trade framework extends beyond trade to set common rules and standards for a range of economic activitiy.

RCEP will take effect after at least six ASEAN countries and three non-ASEAN countries ratify it. Sunday's signing ceremony was held online, hosted by this year's ASEAN chair Vietnam. With national leaders looking on, economic ministers from the 10 members of the Southeast Asian bloc signed in alphabetical order, followed by the five other countries. They held up their documents for the other participants to see over the video feed, each drawing applause from an audience in Hanoi.

"I am confident that RCEP will soon be ratified and come into force, further bolstering our post-pandemic economic recovery and delivering shared prosperity to the people and businesses of all participating countries," Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said after all countries signed. RCEP was officially proposed in 2012, and the talks had dragged on since 2013. Progress was especially slow in the early years, but the discussions gained momentum after Donald Trump became the U.S. president in 2017. Amid a growing trend of protectionism, the participating governments became more motivated to promote free trade.

An exception was India, which was initially involved in the negotiations but withdrew last year, as it was reluctant to open up its agricultural and other key sectors. The agreement, which the members described as "modern, comprehensive, high quality, and mutually beneficial," includes 20 chapters of rules covering everything from trade in goods, investment and e-commerce to intellectual property and government procurement.

The deal will eliminate tariffs on a wider range of goods flowing between the participants, while ceilings on foreign shareholdings will rise in more service industries, such as professional services and telecommunications. The e-commerce chapter aims to enhance consumer protection and safeguard personal information, as well as promote acceptance of electronic signatures. This marks the second big multilateral trade deal for Asia, following the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, or CPTPP – the 11-member version of the TPP, forged after Trump pulled the U.S. out. Seven of the 15 RCEP members belong to the CPTPP as well.

Some members are also already linked by bilateral free trade pacts, such as the one between ASEAN and China. RCEP can thus be seen as a framework joining together existing deals.
For China and Japan Asia's largest and second-largest economies RCEP is the first free trade agreement to connect them. Tariffs on 86% of Japanese goods exported to China will be eliminated, up from the current 8%. This promises big benefits for Japanese manufacturers, such as automobile parts suppliers.
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade/Asia-forms-world-s-largest-trading-bloc-RCEP-after-years-of-talks

#11207623 at 2020-10-22 09:00:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14322: Crimson Tide Rising Edition

Suga warns China over South China Sea
Bernama
October 22, 2020 12:47 pm +08

JAKARTA (Oct 22): Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga effectively warned China on Wednesday against any moves that escalate tensions in the South China Sea, where the country is showing growing assertiveness.

"We oppose any action to raise tensions in the South China Sea," Suga told a news conference in Indonesia's Jakarta, wrapping up his first overseas trip since he took office last month, reported Jiji Press.

During the Asian trip, he also visited Vietnam.

"I have renewed my determination to steadily realise a free and open Indo-Pacific region while continuing to conduct summit diplomacy and working closely with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)," he said.

Suga noted that the vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific does not target any specific country and that Japan can collaborate with any country that shares the same views on the initiative.

"We have no plans at all to create an Indo-Pacific version of NATO," Suga said, apparently mindful of China's opposition to the initiative.

Suga arrived in Jakarta on Wednesday's afternoon from Hanoi, where he met with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday (Oct 19).

The visit to Indonesia completed his four-day trip until Wednesday (Oct 21).

His four-day trip to the two Southeast Asian countries takes place as the Suga is working to promote Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific vision.
https://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/suga-warns-china-over-south-china-sea
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#11186166 at 2020-10-21 08:49:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14298: Tactical Nukes Are Better - Red October Rain Edition

South China Sea: Japan's Prime Miniter Yoshihide Suga
opposes actions that escalate tensions
WION Web Team Tokyo, Japan Oct 21, 2020, 12.53 PM(IST)

Japan on Wednesday opposed any actions that escalate tension in the East and South China Seas.

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga took a thinly veiled dig at China's activities in the disputed South China Sea, where it has built and militarised manmade islands and is pressing its claim to virtually all of the sea's key fisheries and waterways.

A number of Southeast Asian nations dispute China's claims to the waters.

"In the Indo-Pacific that connects maritime transport between Japan and ASEAN, we can achieve the peace and prosperity only by fully implementing rule of law that allows anyone freedom and openness," Suga told a news conference in Jakarta. ASEAN is the 11-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

"But in the South China Sea, opposite actions are being taken and we are closely watching with grave concern," Suga said. "Japan opposes to any action that would increase tensions in the South China Sea."

Suga reiterated that all parties involved in the South China Sea disputes must make peaceful efforts toward resolution, not by force or threat.

Suga pledged to strengthen bilateral defense ties with Southeast Asian nations and promised further assistance to step up their maritime policing, including training and equipment transfer from the Japanese Coast Guard.

The trip follows this month's meeting in Tokyo of the "Quad", an informal grouping of India, Australia, Japan and the United States that Washington sees as a bulwark against China's growing regional influence.

China has denounced the grouping of the four democracies as a "mini-NATO" aimed at containing its development.

"Our response in the South China Sea is not aimed at any one country," Suga said, when asked if Japan wanted to create an Asian version of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Suga must balance Japan's deep economic ties with China against security concerns, including Beijing's growing push to assert claims over disputed East China Sea isles.

Some in his ruling party want to see a harder line, after ties warmed under his predecessor, Shinzo Abe.

"Japan is determined to defend its territory, territorial waters and air space," Suga said, adding that Japan also opposed actions that raised tension in the East China Sea.

Several members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have territorial disputes with China in the vital South China Sea, but are wary of alienating the group's major economic partner and getting entangled in an intense confrontation between Washington and Beijing.

But some welcome Japan's greater engagement in the region.

Suga agreed with President Joko Widodo on Tuesday to speed talks on the export of Japanese defence gear and technology to Indonesia and have their defence and foreign ministers meet soon.

A day earlier, the Japanese leader and Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc also agreed in principle on a military equipment and technology export pact.
https://www.wionews.com/world/south-china-sea-japans-prime-miniter-yoshihide-suga-opposes-actions-that-escalate-tensions-336856

#11150316 at 2020-10-19 12:13:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14259: Good Morning Anon, How Are You Edition

Japan PM slams S. China Sea actions in contravention of rule
of law
October 19, 2020 (Mainichi Japan)

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga speaks during a press briefing with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc, following an exchange of documents ceremony at the Government Office in Hanoi on Oct. 19, 2020. (Nhac Nguyen/Pool Photo via AP)

HANOI (Kyodo) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Monday criticized actions in the South China Sea that "go against the rule of law," a veiled reference to China's increasing assertiveness in the disputed waters.

"It is important that all nations involved work toward a peaceful resolution of conflict in the South China Sea without resorting to force or coercion," Suga said in a speech at a university in Hanoi during his first overseas trip since taking office.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201019/p2g/00m/0in/091000c
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#11150282 at 2020-10-19 12:11:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14259: Good Morning Anon, How Are You Edition

Japan, Vietnam leaders affirm defense, economic cooperation
KYODO NEWS KYODO NEWS - 3 hours ago - 18:03 | All, Japan

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Monday affirmed defense and economic cooperation between their countries, as China's growing influence continues to make its neighbors jittery.

Meeting the press after summit talks with Phuc in Hanoi, Suga called Vietnam a linchpin in efforts to realize a "free and open Indo-Pacific" and vowed Japan's "continued contribution to peace and prosperity in the region."
Suga, who is on his first overseas trip since becoming prime minister, criticized actions in the South China Sea that "go against the rule of law," a veiled reference to Beijing's increasing assertiveness in the disputed waters.

"It is important that all nations involved work toward a peaceful resolution of conflicts in the South China Sea without resorting to force or coercion," Suga said in a speech at the Vietnam Japan University.

Following the one-hour meeting with Phuc, Suga said the countries had agreed in principle on a pact that would enable Japan to export defense equipment and technology to Vietnam.

Such equipment, likely including patrol planes and radar, would help improve the surveillance capabilities of Vietnam, which is one of the claimants in territorial disputes in the South China Sea including over the Spratly Islands, where China is building up a military presence.
MORE AT LINK:
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/10/f8536e95c87d-update2-japan-vietnam-leaders-affirm-cooperation-in-s-china-sea.html
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#11135998 at 2020-10-18 15:19:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14241:They Have No Power Unless You Give It To Them Edition

Suga's Vietnam visit to spur global race for investment deals

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga arrived on Sunday in Vietnam for the first stop in his Southeast Asian tour, which also marks a diplomatic restart of sorts for Hanoi as it courts international investors.

Suga is the first foreign leader of major economies visiting Vietnam since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Hanoi seeks stronger economic and defense ties with Japan as a counterbalance to China's growing influence in the region, where Vietnam is a leading critical voice against Beijing's encroachments. The Japanese leader's trip is likely to accelerate advanced economies' plays for greater business with Vietnam, which has a new trade deal with the European Union and is negotiating a separate one with the U.K. The U.S. is also showing interest as a partner. A spokesperson for Vietnam's foreign ministry welcomed that Suga chose the country for his first overseas trip since becoming prime minister in September. According to Vietnamese media, Suga is expected to meet with Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong the country's President and de facto top leader on Monday, along with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Suga and his entourage are expected to have a more limited itinerary than past Japanese leaders, owing to lingering coronavirus-related restrictions.

High on Hanoi's agenda for the visit is securing greater economic cooperation. While Vietnam has succeeded in containing COVID-19 infections better than any other Southeast Asian nation, its export-driven economy has not been spared the impact of the pandemic. Real gross domestic product growth will slow to 1.6% this year from more than 7% in the preceding two years, according to an International Monetary Fund forecast. With foreign direct investment flows falling short of year-earlier levels, Phuc is expected to call on Suga to encourage Japanese companies to pump more capital into Vietnam. Japan ranks second to South Korea as a source of Vietnam's FDI on a cumulative basis in 2019. It is also the country's fourth-largest trade partner, after China, the U.S., and South Korea. Both countries belong to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. The two nations also have deepening ties between their peoples, with more than 400,000 Vietnamese living in Japan. Manufacturers have led Japanese investment in Vietnam so far, attracted by wages that are lower than in China. But rising income levels have opened up opportunities for service-sector companies to capture consumer demand in a country where a young population promises long-term growth potential.

Vietnam's GDP per capita has topped the $3,000 threshold at which retailers typical move to expand their presence. Among Japanese players, casualwear chain Uniqlo opened its first location here last December and is adding more. Drugstore operator Matsumotokiyoshi Holdings will make its debut in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.
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https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Suga-s-Vietnam-visit-to-spur-global-race-for-investment-deals

#10857901 at 2020-09-30 18:42:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13896: [Blumenthal] Edition

Suga to take up Abe's Indo-Pacific mantle with ASEAN tour

Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is considering visits to Vietnam and Indonesia in mid-October, Nikkei has learned, in a bid to demonstrate his commitment to predecessor Shinzo Abe's push for a "free and open Indo-Pacific." It will be Suga's first overseas visits since taking office. The two countries are first on Suga's travel itinerary, which is being planned now that the coronavirus outbreak has somewhat eased in the region compared with the U.S. and Europe. The plans are still subject to change depending on the status of the contagion. Vietnam and Indonesia were also the first countries Abe visited when he began his second stint as prime minister in 2012. They play a central role within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and their cooperation will be crucial amid China's maritime incursions in the South China Sea. "I will pursue diplomatic policies based on a functional Japan-U.S. alliance," Suga said in his inaugural news conference on Sept. 16. To counter Beijing's expansionism in the East and South China seas, Japan and the U.S. have been pushing for a free and open Indo-Pacific, promoting democratic values in the region through greater economic and security cooperation. ASEAN is an important part of this initiative, considering the 10 member countries are located on a major sea lane that connects the Middle East and East Asia.

Indonesia was the main driver for ASEAN's outlook on the Indo-Pacific issued in June 2019, in which the bloc vowed to play a "central and strategic role" in the region. Meanwhile, Vietnam chairs ASEAN this year, and has faced pressure from China in the South China Sea. "Suga is likely trying to strike a balance by choosing to go to Vietnam, which faces tensions with China, and Indonesia, which places a heavy importance on China ties," said Keio University professor Yuichi Hosoya. Suga is slated to speak with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Indonesian President Joko Widodo. The Japanese prime minister seeks to coordinate efforts with Vietnam and Indonesia regarding the South China Sea, as U.S.-China military and economic tensions continue to heat up. ASEAN members are wary the dispute could escalate local conflicts.

Japan will likely try to appeal to ASEAN partners about securing regional stability in a bid to curb China's growing regional ambitions. In addition to China, the leaders are expected to discuss a plan for lifting travel restrictions imposed over the coronavirus pandemic. Resuming international travel with countries that have the outbreak under control will be a boon to the Japanese economy. Japan is already in talks with Vietnam, whose new daily cases are in the single digits, according to Johns Hopkins University, about easing restrictions on business travel between the countries, both of which have already reopened borders to expatriates. Indonesia is still logging about 4,000 new cases a day. But it is the most populated country in ASEAN and has significant economic potential. "Many Japanese corporations have set up shop in Indonesia, first largely in the auto industry but now also in retail, wholesale and infrastructure," said Kunihiko Shinoda, professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies.

Vietnam and Indonesia are also players in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership trade pact between ASEAN, Japan, China and others, which its members hope to sign by the end of the year.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/International-relations/Suga-to-take-up-Abe-s-Indo-Pacific-mantle-with-ASEAN-tour

#5446923 at 2019-03-01 13:42:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6963: Friday Feeling Edition

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The White House - February 28, 2019
3 percent growth isn't a fairytale, after all

For the first time in 13 years, America's economy hit the 3 percent growth milestone for a calendar year, thanks to an expectations-beating fourth quarter in 2018.

GDP grew by 3.1 percent from the fourth quarter of 2017 to the fourth quarter of 2018. Because of the math behind how GDP growth is calculated, this time period is "a better measure of how the economy actually performed in 2018" than a year-over-year figure, according to former President Obama's top economist.

For two straight years, growth has matched or exceeded the Trump Administration's own forecast. That result will come as a surprise to some of the President's critics. "Apparently, the budget forecasts that U.S. economic growth will rise to 3.0 percent because of the administration's policies," one prominent liberal economist wrote in 2017.

"Fair enough if you believe in tooth fairies," he added.

Those predictions haven't aged well. In the real world, the Trump Economy continues to bust expectations across the board. Job growth in January 2019 reached 300,000, for example-compared to the Congressional Budget Office's January 2017 projection of 71,000 per month. And for the first time in a decade, wages rose 3 percent.

This growth isn't a continuation of the economy President Trump inherited. It's an acceleration. Had the pre-2017 growth trend continued, economic growth would have been 2 percent in both 2017 and 2018. The actual 3.1 percent growth rate we got in 2018 represents $280 billion more in American economic output.

"The [GDP] report shows how Republican-backed tax cuts may have continued to aid growth and help bring the full-year figure to 3.1 percent, just above President Donald Trump's 3 percent goal," Bloomberg reports. Indeed, the 1.1 percentage point above expected growth "is almost exactly in line" with what economic research suggests would happen if a tax bill "of the same magnitude as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" took effect, the Council of Economic Advisers wrote today.

In others words, we have some bad news for pessimists on the American economy: It turns out pro-growth policies actually deliver growth. Who knew?

Why 2018 was a banner year for the U.S. economy

Watch Larry Kudlow: "The policies are WORKING."

'Sometimes you have to walk'

President Trump returns home tonight from Hanoi, Vietnam, where he met with both Vietnamese leaders and Chairman Kim Jong Un of North Korea over the past few days.

"I want to thank all of the people of Vietnam for having treated us so well," President Trump said. Among meetings with Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, President Trump also participated in the signing ceremony for commercial trade deals that will support more than 83,000 American jobs.

On North Korea, President Trump held firm on America's terms: Nothing short of progress toward complete, verifiable denuclearization will result in sanctions relief.

"I think our relationship is very strong," President Trump said of Chairman Kim. "I think, actually, it was a very productive two days. But sometimes you have to walk, and this was just one of those times." Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added that "we didn't get to [a deal] that ultimately made sense for the United States of America . . . I hope we'll do so in the weeks ahead."

Watch President Trump's press conference from Hanoi, Vietnam

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#5398579 at 2019-02-26 20:38:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6900: What's The Frequency Edition

"Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said his country will "spare no effort" to host a successful summit between North Korea and the United States because in the end, it would be less costly than a war"

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1100493245598089216

#5379254 at 2019-02-25 19:49:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6875: Big Name Coming Edition

>>5379197
Comrade Nguyen Thien Nhan,

We are grateful for this opportunity to visit Ho Chi Minh City and for the fruitful and warm talks we have held.

We regularly exchange visits by top and high-level delegations. Last year, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong visited Russia, and Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev as well as State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin visited Vietnam. We look forward to a visit by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Speaker of the National Assembly of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan this year.

When President of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang visited Russia in 2017, our leaders reached an agreement on holding the Year of Russia in Vietnam and the Year of Vietnam in Russia, which you have mentioned. The programme of this event includes dozens of undertakings, from cultural, academic and education exchanges to investment projects.

We are working hard to strengthen our trade and economic cooperation. Several Russian companies are working in Vietnam, and the Rusvietpetro Joint Venture is active in Russia. In addition to hydrocarbon projects, we are also implementing a promising project to build a nuclear science and technology centre in Dong Nai.

http://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/3540961

#5365565 at 2019-02-24 21:55:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6858: Logical Thinking Edition

Security men and metal detectors: Vietnam prepares for Trump-Kim summit

HANOI (Reuters) - Dozens of North Korean security men with identical haircuts and suits marched off an aircraft at Hanoi airport on Sunday, as Vietnamese soldiers searched through shrubbery outside a posh hotel in the city centre days before a North Korea-U.S. summit.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, hoping to build on a commitment they made at their first meeting, in Singapore in June, to rid the Korean peninsula of nuclear bombs.

They are expected to meet for their second summit in Hanoi's Government Guesthouse, an elegant, colonial-era building in the city centre, or at the nearby Metropole Hotel, sources have told Reuters.

Vietnam has confirmed that Kim will arrive for an official goodwill visit as well as the summit with Trump, but has released no further details regarding the location of meetings.

A Reuters witness saw Vietnamese soldiers in camouflaged fatigues sweeping the area around the Metropole with a metal detector. Its potted plants were thoroughly checked.
Teams of soldiers were also seen busy on nearby rooftops, installing radio devices and equipment under camouflaged webbing.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered that security should be a top priority for the summit, the government said in a post on its website.
The Southeast Asian country is relishing its role as peace maker, seeing it as an opportunity to burnish its international standing and balance it foreign ties.

Vietnam has pushed U.S. and North Korean security services to work closely to prepare for the summit, a senior Vietnamese security official told Reuters.

Media published photographs taken at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport showing a North Korean cargo plane with its loading door open and the security men filing off onto the tarmac.

Some banners proclaiming the summit have gone up along Hanoi's tree-lined streets and some lamp posts are decked with North Korean, Vietnamese and U.S. flags fluttering above a handshake design, but apart from that, for now at least, life goes on as normal.
Motorists have been warned to expect road closures when the leaders are in town.
Security at the train station in the town of Dang Dong, on the Chinese border where Kim is expected arrive by train, has also been stepped up.
Vietnamese soldiers were seen patrolling its streets on Sunday.

https://www.firstpost.com/world/security-men-and-metal-detectors-vietnam-prepares-for-trump-kim-summit-6146241.html

#3389010 at 2018-10-08 03:33:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4295: Slidey Sunday NightShift Edition

>>3388939 (pb)
re: purported arrest of Interpol chief in China.

Asian political elites all in a tizzy these days, trying to figure out which way the wind is blowing with regard to US swamp draining (primarily) and MAGA-type movements in UK/AUS/EU/NZ.

At the end of the day, most of the Asian elites are just greedy opportunists who will get in line behind the dominant global trend or movement. As in any country, there are a few principled people around too who want to make a positive difference.

Most Vietnamese people believe their president was murdered a couple weeks ago by their prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc. I have no idea if that's true, but they believe it so in some sense it might as well be so.

Wouldn't surprise me if that country's ruling cabal is fracturing into pro- and anti-cabal camps.

Vietnam, Laos, United Korea, and Burma could all be key allies in a new policy of containing Chinese attempts to infiltrate and subvert the U.S. government/economy/media.

#3163157 at 2018-09-24 11:32:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4003 China Tariffs Take Effect Edition

>>3163105
The overwhelming sentiment in Vietnam to Quang's death was one of "good riddance" and "he had it coming to him". No one seems to be shedding a tear over his loss outside of his immediate family.

Not clear to this anon what Quang's take on Trump and USA SwampDraining was. Certainly lots of people in the Vietnamese Communist Party were tight with HRC and Hussein and had already started to divide the profits of lots of SwampDeals in expectation of an HRC victory in '16. Tremendous disappointment among those VN SwampCritters with the DJT victory.

The vast majority of Vietnamese believe Quang was murdered by his rival, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, by use of a radioactive poisoning agent.

#3119538 at 2018-09-21 11:12:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3947: Q&A Led To Moar Q's Than A's Edition

Further to the unexpected death of Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang today… talking to academics and friends in Vietnam a lot about this today and here's what they said:

Quang was pretty much universally despised by his own people as a slave to the NWO and more directly, the Chinese communists. At first I offered them my condolences on the death of their president (seemed a polite thing to do), but they were actually gleeful at his passing.

The widely-believed rumor in Vietnam today is that Quang was poisoned by his political rival, prime minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguy%E1%BB%85n_Xu%C3%A2n_Ph%C3%BAc

Phuc is already widely believed to have been behind the murder of Nguyen Ba Thanh, the mayor of the city of Danang, a few years ago. Thanh was in charge of a corruption investigation involving Phuc and other senior Vietcong leaders. In that case, a radioactive poisoning agent was suspected.

Oddly enough, the word on the street is that President Quang was also poisoned by a radioactive agent, possibly polonium.

No clear evidence that any of this is Q-related, though Vietnam certainly has its own Swamp and Quang was part of it… as is Phuc. Thanh wanted to be a swamp-drainer but it didn't work out so well for him.

Awareness of Q in Vietnam is practically nil.

#361268 at 2018-02-13 08:40:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #444: The Tripbread of Truth Edition

Ginsberg is pictured with former Vietnamese prime minister Nguyen Tan Dung. Dung's government and the current government of PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc were both tight with BHO & HRC. Various deals were agreed upon which promised the Vietnamese Communist Party leaders cash following HRC's electoral victory. This is why the Vietnamese press is so rabidly anti-Trump today.

One possibility for the McStain & Ginsberg visits: McStain and the Vietnamese Commie Party share a dirty secret, which is the illegal keeping of a few hundred American POWs in Vietnam and Laos from 1975-1986, and the ultimate execution of the survivors.

Several members of the US MIA Joint Task Force took this secret to their grave in a helicopter crash eerily similar to those we've recently witnessed:

https:// www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/04/10/pentagon-identifies-victims-of-helicopter-crash-in-vietnam/3806d272-21dc-42cf-af50-a15623963e60/?utm_term=.f00c4f728798

On the U.S. side, McStain and his neocon cronies actively prevented presidents Carter and Reagan from taking actions to bring the POWs home. On the Vietnamese side, PM Pham Van Dong and his cronies knowingly violated the Geneva Convention as they thought the U.S. would eventual pay a ransom for the prisoners.

Because both parties have an interest in keeping this crime a secret, it may be that McStain has been seeking asylum in Vietnam. I'm just making an educated guess.