Mattis pushes closer ties to Vietnam amid tension with China

By making a rare second trip this year to Vietnam, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is signaling how intensively the Trump administration is trying to counter China's military assertiveness by cozying up to smaller nations in the region that share American wariness about Chinese intentions. The visit beginning Tuesday also shows how far U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced since the tumultuous years of the Vietnam War.

On this Memorial Day, remember the trauma of 50 years ago

Senator Robert Kennedy & wife Ethel standing at podium, addressing his constituents & the press at the Ambassador Hotel after his CA primary election victory and just prior to his assassination. In this April 28, 1965 file photo, U.S. Marine infantry stream into a suspected Viet Cong village near Da Nang in Vietnam during the Vietnamese war.

This day in history, March 8, 2018

On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nang. In 1854, U.S. Commodore Matthew C. Perry made his second landing in Japan; within a month, he concluded a treaty with the Japanese.

US aircraft carrier to arrive in Vietnam for historic visit

Hanoi, March 4 : A US Navy aircraft carrier will set anchor in Vietnam on Monday, for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War more than four decades ago, the media reported. The four-day visit by the USS Carl Vinson and its contingent of 5,000 sailors and aviators has been deemed as a historic opportunity to enhance the budding friendship that has emerged between the two former foes, reports CNN.

F-22 Stealth Fighters Launch Flares, Chase Russian Jets Out Of Syria Deconfliction Zone

Two U.S. F-22 fighter jets chased Russian Su-25 planes out of the deconfliction zone in Syria on Wednesday using flares. Russian jets moved into the deconfliction zone east of the Euphrates River, but were quickly forced out by a pair of F-22 stealth fighters, which launched warning flares, a Pentagon official told The Washington Examiner on Thursday.

Bad NAFTA outcome could hurt US ties, Mexico says

In this Aug. 16, 2017 photo, the national flags of Canada, the U.S. and Mexico are lit by stage lights before a news conference, at the start of the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations in Washington. Mexico is taking U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to leave NAFTA more seriously as a second round of talks opens Friday, Sept.

Trump Says Putin ‘Means It’ About Not Meddling

Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct - WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans scrambled on Friday to find a way to block Roy S. Moore's path to the Senate, exploring extraordinary measures to rid themselves of their own Senate nominee in Alabama For Alabama Women, Disgust, Fatigue and a Sense Moore Could Win Anyway - VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. - Sallie Gunter, 61, a freelance court reporter, was having breakfast with her friend Lisa Hicks, 44, a legal assistant, at Panera Bread when the subject of Roy S. Moore came up.

U.S. soldier in Niger ambush was bound and apparently executed,…

Republicans Try to Block Moore's Path as Candidate Denies Sexual Misconduct - WASHINGTON - Senate Republicans scrambled on Friday to find a way to block Roy S. Moore's path to the Senate, exploring extraordinary measures to rid themselves of their own Senate nominee in Alabama For Alabama Women, Disgust, Fatigue and a Sense Moore Could Win Anyway - VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. - Sallie Gunter, 61, a freelance court reporter, was having breakfast with her friend Lisa Hicks, 44, a legal assistant, at Panera Bread when the subject of Roy S. Moore came up.

Chinese President Xi Jinping addresses the Asia-Pacific Economic…

US president sends hardline message on South China Sea and trade protectionism while Chinese leader offers his country as a defender of globalisation No sooner had the leaders of China and the United States patted each other on the back for a swag of business deals in Beijing than they were taking diverging stands on global trade at a regional summit in Vietnam. The two presidents arrived on Friday in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang, a former American military base facing the South China Sea, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation CEO summit, just hours after both lauded the success of US President Donald Trump's first state trip to China.

Trump pushes ‘Indo-Pacific’ foreign policy, bringing India into strategic bulwark against China

President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shake hands during a meeting at the Blue House in Seoul on Nov. 7. President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in shake hands during a meeting at the Blue House in Seoul on Nov. 7. As he travels across Asia, President Trump is pushing an ambitious if still vague new foreign policy: a "free and open Indo-Pacific" stretching from the West Coast to Japan, down through Southeast Asia to Australia, and west across another ocean to India.