US gifts new security vessel to Vietnam, vows S. China Sea presence
US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper and Vietnam’s Minister of National Defence Ngo Xuan Lich review an honour guard during a welcome ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam, today. – EPA pic, November 20, 2019.
THE United States is giving Vietnam’s coast guard a second cutter vessel, US Defence Secretary Mark Esper said today, vowing to maintain a routine military presence in the flashpoint South China Sea. The new security ship “represents another concrete symbol of our strengthening relationship”, Esper said at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam after a tour through South Korea, Thailand and the Philippines.
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