Hanoi: Vice President Kamala Harris turned his focus into a pandemic of Coronavirus and global health during his visit to Vietnam, a country wrestling with waves that deteriorated in a very low virus and vaccination rate.
The more contagious Delta variant is directing the highest record in infection in Vietnam and encouraging recent locking in Ho Chi Minh City, the nation’s business center and the latest plague center.
Harris is expected to offer further US support to help the nation expand its vaccination level, which floated around 2 percent, during Wednesday morning meeting with Vietnam officials.
He will also emphasize the opportunity for greater collaboration to overcome climate change and discuss increased US security support to Vietnam, which shares the vigilance of China Washington.
In the afternoon, Harris will join a health security program with the health ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian groups and Papua New Guinea, and will launch disease control centers and prevention of Southeast Asian regional offices.
The new CDC office will be one of the four regional offices globally, and this focuses on collaborating with local governments about research and training to deal with and prevent the global health crisis.
Harris was the first US vice president to visit Vietnam, and his journey came during a week through Southeast Asia.
Harris’s first stop was in Singapore, where he met with high-ranking officials and delivered a speech that described the vision of President Joe Biden for the region.
The Indo Pacific nation has become the main focus for the Biden government for trying to offer a calculator to the influence of China that developed globally.
But even when Harris hoped to keep his focus on the main agenda item in Vietnam, his visit would be overshadowed by recent security fears in Vietnam and sustainable developments in the US out of Afghanistan.
Harris flights to Vietnam were delayed for hours on Tuesday afternoon after the vice-president’s office had realized the investigation of two cases that might be called Havana Syndrome in Hanoi, according to administrative officials.
Havana Syndrome is the name for the mysterious health incident rash reported by American diplomats and other government employees in the Cuban capital which began in 2016.
Harris has not commented in public about developments, but they will burden officials while he participated in the signing of rent for the US Embassy In Hanoi, with the embassy staff present.
And his swing through Vietnam will definitely draw some unwanted comparisons between the humiliation of the US forces in 1975 and this week’s turmoil effort to evacuate America and allies from Afghanistan.
US Senate Bill Hagerty, a Tennessee Republic and former US ambassador to Japan, noted that the images were unavoidable for many Americans as Harris stopped in the country.
“He will have a challenge from the point of view of the Domestic Public Relations, because everyone in America currently associates the images they see on TV with Kabul’s collapse, with pictures of Americans appointed from the roof of our embassy.
In Saigon,” he said.
Hagerty also said that Harris needed to convince Vietnamese people that America remained “flare freedom and freedom in the world” and “strong partners” in the region.
But Gregory polls, a senior colleague for Asia in the center of strategic and international studies, suggests that Vietnam can offer vice president the opportunity to offer a more optimistic vision for what relationships with former enemies.
“Only by being there and involved in this process, it shows extraordinary progress in the recovery of relations between the US and Vietnam,” said polling.
“This might be a little good for them to show it – who in 1975 would believe that this is where US economic relations?”