Excerpted 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 …
