U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday wrapped up a five-day diplomatic sprint through Vietnam and India that put a spotlight on imperfect partners that he believes will be crucial for global stability in the years to come.
The whirlwind visit demonstrated that as Russia's war on Ukraine plods on with no end in sight, Biden appears to have become more willing to look past differences with complicated allies that he badly needs to keep close for the sake of stability in the Indo-Pacific, Middle East and beyond.
"It is important to acknowledge Vietnam has had a decades-long relationship with Russia and a decades-long military relationship with Russia," said Jon Finer, Biden's principal deputy national security adviser. "But our strong sense is that there is an increasing discomfort on the part of the Vietnamese with that relationship."
"I don't want to contain China," Biden said during a Hanoi news conference after he met with Nguyễn Phu Trong, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, for the formal announcement of the elevation of the U.S.-Vietnam relationship. "We're not trying to hurt China." At the G20 summit, Biden warmly greeted Saudi Arabian Crown Prince bin Salman, less than a year after warning the Saudis that they would pay "consequences" for padding Moscow's coffers by engineering a cut in oil production that spiked the price of crude.
Biden had refused to speak to Prince Mohammed at the start of his administration. As a presidential candidate in 2020, he said he wanted to make the Saudis "pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are." The White House said the project is not seen as a precursor to a potential normalization deal but characterized Israel's inclusion as significant.Biden also had praise for India's Modi, this year's G20 host, for running a successful summit -- even as the Modi government dismissed the Biden administration's lobbying for Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to be invited.
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