Washington: Kamala Harris will become the first Vice President to visit Vietnam next month during a trip that will also include Singapore and aimed at the international support relie to fight the influence of China’s growing.
Harris will discuss regional security, global response to Covid-19, climate change, and “our shared efforts to promote Order International Order,” Symone Sanders spokesman said.
Former US Vietnamese Foe has emerged as the main US partner and opponent vocal claims of China in the South China Sea.
Harris’s journey will follow one that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was made this week to Hanoi.
“President Biden and Vice President Harris have made it a top priority to rebuild our global partnership and keep our country safe, and this upcoming visit continues the work,” the White House said in a statement that outlines Harris’s travel plan.
It did not give the right date for the trip and his diplomat said this was still done.
In Vietnam on Thursday, Austin tried to encourage advanced security bonds that continued to deepen in the midst of joint concerns about Chinese activities in the South China Sea.
Austin also visited the Philippines and scored a significant goal when his President Rodrigo Duterte restored an agreement governing the movement of the US forces in and out of the country, something strategically important to fight China.
Analysts said Harris’s visit would be important to emphasize Washington’s commitment to Southeast Asia, and some speculating could lead to more promises of US vaccines into the region, which had been beaten recently by Covid-19.
“Austin’s visit this week is very much needed to show Southeast Asia that the US wants to be involved,” said Murray Hiebert, a Southeast Asian expert at Washington’s strategic and strategic study center.
“Austin is under pressure to send this message and Harris will do the same.” On Sundays, the United States sent 3 million doses of Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to Vietnam and has sent a dose to other Southeast Asian countries as well, but the agreement reached in March with Japan and Australia and India to provide one billion doses to the region Stopped because of the ban on Indian export.
Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman visited Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand at the end of May and early June and Japan, South Korea and Mongolia this month before heading to China for talks that did not seem to relieve many tense bonds.
President Joe Biden highlighted the threat of Washington to see from China this week, saying that Chinese leader Xi Jinping was “truly deadly to be the most powerful military force in the world, and the largest and most prominent economy in the world.
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“On the first trip abroad in the office, Harris visited Mexico and Guatemala in June with the aim of reducing migration from the region.
During his trip, he focused on problems such as economic development, food vulnerability and women’s problems.