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Manan Vatsyayana/Pool via REUTERS US Vice President Kamala Harris departs Vietnam after offering the country almost 1 million extra doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attends a meeting with US Vice President Kamala Harris at the government office in Hanoi, Vietnam, August 25, 2021. Vietnam is grappling with a new coronavirus surge driven by the Delta variant and low vaccination rates, with only about 2 percent of the country’s population fully vaccinated. “Beijing likes to remind Hanoi who of the two giants is closer to it,” Huong Le Thu, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told the Washington Post. Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via APīut the timing of the offer was an obvious move by China during Harris’ weeklong trip to Southeast Asia during which she accused Beijing of “bullying” and “intimidation” in the South China Sea. Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images US Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Vietnam Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan met at the presidential palace in Hanoi on August 25, 2021. Coronavirus patients receiving oxygen in a makeshift ward at Field Hospital Number 6 in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thanked the Chinese envoy for the offer, saying Vietnam “does not ally with one country to fight against another,” the Washington paper said, again citing state media.
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The offer undercut the VP’s eventual announcement, and reflects Chinese sensitivity about the US trying to win over Vietnam, its former adversary that is a fast-growing nation of nearly 100 million, the paper said. Harris was en route to Vietnam to offer a coronavirus rescue package, including 1 million extra doses of the Pfizer vaccine, when her plane was delayed over a feared case of the so-called “Havana Syndrome.”ĭuring the delay, Beijing rushed its envoy in Hanoi to meet with Vietnam’s prime minister - and he doubled the US offer with a pledge of 2 million vaccines, the Washington Post reported, citing Chinese state media. Tiger Woods, Kamala Harris pumped for Serena Williams’ stirring winĬhina exploited Kamala Harris’ unexpected flight delay to Vietnam this week to undermine the United States - by doubling the US offer of coronavirus vaccines before the vice president could make her big announcement, according to reports. Harris claims to eat 1st grape in her 20s over labor boycott, but there’s a wrinkle in datesīiden’s open border is attracting a huge new category of illegal migrants Where Joe Biden, Jill Biden and VP Harris will be for 9/11 on Sunday