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Mike Levin: “Madam Speaker, clearly our relationships with Vietnam represents a major challenge. There is the troubled past... the…”

On the recordSeptember 6, 2001
Madam Speaker, clearly our relationships with Vietnam represents a major challenge. There is the troubled past... the beginning of negotiations for a bilateral trade agreement. These negotiations went on for several years. They were finalized within a few years, by 1997.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing U.S. relations with Vietnam and the balance of engagement and pressure.

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