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After Decades, U.S. Resumes Arms Sales to Vietnam

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Bill Dorman

Published October 3, 2014 at 11:50 AM HST

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For the first time in several decades, the United States will start selling certain kinds of weapons to Vietnam. The partial lifting of an embargo comes as regional tensions remain in the South China Sea. HPR’s Bill Dorman has more in today’s Asia Minute.

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