Behind the scenes of Donald Trump's very strange White House meeting with Vietnam's prime minister
SalonExcerpted from " Nothing Is Impossible: America's Reconciliation with Vietnam " by Ambassador Ted Osius, to be published by Rutgers University Press on October 15, 2021. President Trump then instructed Lighthizer to "bring the U.S. trade deficit with Vietnam to zero in four years." We waited while President Trump and Prime Minister Phúc met in the Oval Office "one-on-one"— with interpreters and about a hundred television and print journalists. President Trump again urged Prime Minister Phúc to reduce Vietnam's trade deficit with the United States from $32 billion to zero in four years. When McMaster suggested that "an aircraft carrier visit would be historic and an important symbol," the prime minister replied carefully that Vietnam "appreciated the initiative to bring an aircraft carrier.
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