President Obama recently visited Vietnam to speak out against communism and the lack of human rights. The comparison between the state of human rights in the U.S. and those in this one-party Communist country that still holds political prisoners and censors news broadcasts seems to be a bit of a stretch, but Obama told the crowd that no country is perfect. While he did not directly address the Vietnam war he did mention relations between the US and the country. Given the opened up trade agreement this visit was necessary to defuse any aggression towards America.
Personally I agree with the timing of this visit, it opens up better foreign relations and potential relations in the future with more parts of China and Russia. This relates back to the foreign trade agreement and the Vietnam considering both were vaguely mentioned and were causes of this meeting.
I am proud of Obama's attempts to normalize relations, and I hope that tensions will continue to cool with communist countries around the world
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