The Trump administration does have an opportunity to bring about real reforms in Vietnam if and only if human rights improvements are linked to better U.S.-Vietnamese relations.
The Vietnamese Government has gotten a free pass on human rights for far too long.
Robust championing of individual rights will meet with some success, if recent history is our guide.
U.S. policy has failed the Vietnamese people. This is a bipartisan criticism.
It has been, ladies and gentleman, as you know, a very bad year in Vietnam for human rights.
We want to work with you. We want to trade with you. We want to be friends with you.
Severe human rights abuses continue in Vietnam and data suggests these abuses are mounting.
I believe more must be done.
But if we are who we aspire to be as a nation, we will not, until you recognize basic human liberties.
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