American scholar highly "scores" President Sang's visit to the VietNamNet would like to introduce an article by Mr. Murray Hiebert, Senior Advisor, Deputy Director of the Southeast Asia Program at the US-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) about President Truong Tan Sang’s recent visit to the US.  Moments of surprise at CSIS In the afternoon of July 25, President Truong Tan Sang paid a visit to CSIS and talked with scholars and diplomats there. This is the first time a head of state of One of the most surprising aspects of his time at CSIS was that he took six questions from the audience at the end of his speech. The questions ranged from relations with the His answers were spontaneous and unrehearsed. At the end of the speech, he walked around the security rope cordoning off the podium to shake the hands of several ASEAN ambassadors and former Not avoid discussing thorny issues Overall, I would give the visit high marks, even though there were not many concrete deliverables. A senior US official involved in relations with I think it was important that President Sang didn’t seem to shy away from a discussion of the most difficult issue in Vietnam-US. Relations today: human rights. I think it was a good idea for the President to bring three Buddhist monks and two Christian clergy with him to I think it’s important that the two sides talked about the For the Americans freedom of navigation is critical. They are also worried that an accident could result from the increasing number of military vessels operating in or near areas of dispute and lead to unintended consequences. I think both sides have achieved some satisfactory results, although there may be a number of goals is not as initially expected. Vietnamese officials had also hoped they would get from the The I think the Comprehensive partnership One of the striking results of the visit was President Truong Tan Sang and President Obama agreed to upgrade Vietnam-US relations to "comprehensive partnership." Generally, ‘strategic partnerships’ imply close political and security ties. ‘Comprehensive partnerships’ generally imply more all around ties that include economic ties and people to people relations. Secretary of State Clinton proposed a comprehensive partnership during her visit to We probably won’t know exactly what this term means until We will have to see in a few years how this framework will contribute to furthering US-Vietnam relations. This broad agenda has the potential to deepen relations in so many areas ranging from political relations to economic ties to military relations. How deeply it furthers relations, however, will depend on how much energy both sides put into enhancing cooperation. |
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