The United States government has been making efforts to win over Southeast Asian nations such as Vietnam in an effort to contain China’s rise in the Asia-Pacific region.
However, despite the US’s efforts to woo Vietnam into joining its anti-China alliance, Vietnam has been secretly making deals to buy a large batch of Russian weapons — a move that would violate US sanctions policies — per an internal Vietnamese government document.
The document in question comes from the Ministry of Finance document and is dated back to March 2023. Former and current Vietnamese officials have confirmed the document’s content, which details how the Vietnamese government plans to modernize its military by secretly paying for defense purchases via transfers at a joint Vietnamese and Russian oil venture based in Siberia. The deal was signed by a Vietnamese deputy finance minister. The document highlighted that Vietnam has been in negotiations with Russia over […]
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