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  Obama Begins Visit to Asia with Stop in Vietnam

NANCY BENAC
Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) —
President Barack Obama’s
mission in Vietnam and
Japan is to build stronger
economic and security
ties with Asian-Pacific al-
lies anxious about the rise
of an increasingly muscular
China. That forward-look-
ing message will be deliv-
ered even as he confronts
the legacies of two wars
long past — Vietnam and
World War II — that still are
fraught with emotion.
Obama’s first stop on his
weeklong Asia trip was
Vietnam, where he is the
third sitting president to
visit since the end of the
war. Four decades after
the fall of Saigon, and two
decades after President Bill
Clinton restored relations
with the nation, Obama is
eager to upgrade relations

U.S. President Barack Obama is given flowers by Linh Tran, the ceremonial flower girl, as he arrives on Air Force One at Noi Bai In-
ternational Airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sunday, May 22, 2016. The president is on a weeklong trip to Asia as part of his effort to pay
more attention to the region and boost economic and security cooperation.

                                                                                                                                                       (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

with an emerging power        ment that is stalled in Con-    In Japan, Obama will at-                        da will be Beijing’s assertive
whose rapidly expanding       gress and facing strong         tend a summit of the Group                      claims in the South China
middle class beckons as a     opposition from the 2016        of Seven industrialized na-                     Sea that are causing ten-
promising market for  U.S.    presidential candidates.        tions, where the uncer-                         sions with other countries in
goods and an offset to Chi-   Vietnam also is hoping that     tain global economy will                        the region.
na’s growing strength in the  Obama will  use  the visit to   be a top concern of the                         While the summit isn’t ex-
region. Obama arrived in      erase an irksome vestige        G-7 leaders. They’ll also                       pected to produce any
Hanoi late Sunday. During     of the war by lifting the U.S.  grapple with a full array of                    breakthroughs, it gives
his three-day stay in Viet-   partial embargo on selling      world challenges, includ-                       leaders a rare opportunity
nam, he’ll make the case      arms to the country. The        ing the fight against the                       to talk through the intrac-
for stronger commercial       idea is under consideration,    Islamic State group in Iraq                     table difficulties they con-
and security ties, including  but concern about Viet-         and Syria, the refugee crisis                   front.
approval of the 12-nation     nam’s human rights record       in Europe and Russian ag-
trans-Pacific trade agree-    could weigh against it.         gression. Also on the agen-                           Continued on Page 3

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