Que veut faire D. Trump en Asie Pacifique, en particulier dans le conflit en Mer de Chine du Sud ?
“Prime Minister Phuc has done a spectacular job in Vietnam, led so many different categories in trade and other things,” Mr. Trump told reporters before their meeting. “We’re going to be discussing trade. We’re going to be discussing North Korea. We have many things to talk about and we look forward to being together, very much so.”
Sitting next to Mr. Trump in the Oval Office, Mr. Phuc said, “The relationship between Vietnam and the United States has undergone significant upheavals in history, but today we have been able to become comprehensive partners.”
As evidence of that, the two countries announced more than $8 billion worth of commercial deals, mostly for high-tech products, with American companies like General Electric. Vietnam runs a nearly $32 billion trade surplus with the United States, a growing gap that the United States trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, lamented on Tuesday.
Vietnam’s prime minister will be hoping for answers for Southeast Asia about the future role of the United States in helping the region resist Chinese expansion in a widely disputed sea.
Next week Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc is expected to become the first Southeast Asian leader to visit the White House since Trump took office in January. Trade and maritime claims in the disputed South China Sea are expected to be high on the agenda.
“Being the first Southeast Asian leader to visit Washington, the Vietnamese prime minister will want to explore U.S. plans and goals for engagement with the larger Southeast Asian region,” said Murray Hiebert, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank in Washington.
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