The American Response to the Changed Vietnamese Position (original) (raw)

The Carter Administration and Vietnam, 1996

Abstract

The Vietnamese leadership wasted no time in translating their decision to accelerate the normalisation process with the United States into action. Even before the critical Central Committee meeting in June, Hanoi had begun to send up trial balloons to test the American response. The Inquirer of 13 May 1978 noted an article in the Far Eastern Economic Review which claimed that, ‘in a discreet message to Washington … Hanoi has expressed its willingness to shelve the issue of American aid in healing the wounds of war and to proceed with normalisation of diplomatic and commercial relations.’1

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