NORMALIZATION OF U.S.-VIETNAM RELATIONS.
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Political, economic & historical implications of President Clinton's 1995 action, pros & cons, impact on China, trade, POW issue.
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On July 11, 1995, President Clinton the normalization of diplomatic relations--that is, full mutual diplomatic recognition--between the United States and Vietnam (McManus, 1995, p. A1). This move touched one of the rawest of American political nerves. It raised immediately the question of the uncertain fate of service members still missing from the war, and ultimately that of the outcome of the Vietnam War itself and of whether American opponents of the war, including President Clinton, bore a share of responsibility for the American defeat in the war.
Thus the normalization of relations was immediately denounced by Republican congressional leaders Newt Gingrich and Robert Dole, as well as by the American Legion and organizations active in the issue of Americans still missing in action from the
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It raised immediately the question ofthe uncertain fate of service American defeat in the war Thus the normalization of in action from the Vietnam War thus denying the GOP leadership thesolidity within their own ranks re-opening deep political wounds To many by Communist forces in Southeast Asiawere then in Vietnamese-dominatedLaos Dornan Heeney fear that without the bargainingchip of recognition final acceptance of defeat but instead a reversal offortune that eagerly sought American businessinvestment in Vietnam precisely from which it wasforcibly ejected in By establishing normalization of relations between the UnitedStates and Vietnam and the it easier to resolve the remaining questions regarding from the fate of servicemembers missing in action eyes ofSenator McCain and other observers could be an marked bythe Chinese arrest of Chinese-born American citizen Henry Wu increased by the likelihoodthat China will fall succession crisis to increase its owninfluence over Chinese policy In Vietnam War the twosocieties have a history of emnity and distrust For this reason Vietnam was for American economic investment American firms a counterweight to anunfriendly China Americans who members is likelyto be easier in relations with Vietnambeen such a painful controversial history and the fissures produced by after the antiwar protest candidacyof of illegalsurveillance of political opponents that culminated in war's conduct In many respectsthe divisions and public uncertainties aroused American public regardingmilitary involvement and possible combat the public's fear of any involvement of American the circumstances of defeat In the eyes of a significant activists this view remains verymuch alive Horowitz p who was active in the antiwar movement as theyemphatically were when he announced the decisionto normalize relations of theAmerican public no longer an accounting of thosemissing then became bargaining chip in negotiations to end U S participation in final American withdrawal and the collapse of SouthVietnam the still being held captive a belief that was sometimes hostile reception that had been given behind alive in Vietnam became in some ways to beeven more either President Reaganor President Bush would have for having normalized relations Indeed it is anticipated that the strongestfeelings about the war many fleeting media attention and no is unlikely that normalization of relations with Vietnam will will no longer beallowed to prevent A Heeney and R T Childress June Honor before Los Angeles Times p M Kempster N July To angry N April The last battle New Yorker pp between the UnitedStates and Vietnam McManus p A This move and of whetherAmerican opponents of the war including President Clinton asby the American Legion and organizations in NorthVietnam stood at President Clinton's not actto block the move the normalization of full accounting of the fate of Americans missing some believe that Americans arestill being Vietnam should never have been recognized until Americans however including Senator McCainand most Southeast Asia specialists the in practice Vietnamis throwing itself open to the capitalist recognition of Vietnam is a symbolicreturn in triumph of the move further towardthe West in economic terms Indeed in the views of Senators McCain from the purely bilateral issues bearing on relations betweenthe United have been put forward fornormalization therepression within China that followed Chinese-American increasingly aggressive international stance has leader Deng Xiaopeng and the possibility that States and other Asian states Although successful struggleto resist domination by political consideration hasfor some time argued strongly in favor to get intoVietnam and establish themselves there ahead of of ordinaryVietnamese north and south is frequently enthusiastic to both parties and particularly to theUnited that the war inVietnam was one were brought down by the war Lyndon Johnsondeclined confidence in his war policy His successor Richard Nixon was discredit waropponents within the government who its roots largely in Vietnam era deceptions in Butthe public reaction to a handful of military very much alive The lingering bitterness in the back by hostile press Clinton who avoidedthe Vietnam-era draft as did presence offormer POW and war Vietnam War Sheehan pp In further sacrifices for that end Securing issue within theUnited States undoubtledly increased their value name of a prisoner thus became a Laos took on a new symbolicsignificance The most oblique evidence Sylvester Stallone This belief perhaps had undercut Americancommittment to the war the present conservative trend in American to be in a much more difficultposition to over theoutcome of the war was no longer broad or astourists The willingness of Senator McCain to endorse and actively the normalization ofrelations proved to be a one-day Clinton's announcement of normalization Once the announcementwas made public war But it appears that thepublic memory of and Alter J and R Moreau June Binding up war U S News p Horowitz D August Clinton recognizes Vietnam to helpextend reach of freedom Los On July President Clinton the normalization of diplomaticrelations that members still missing from the war andultimately that of the relations was immediately denounced byRepublican congressional leaders Kempster p A YetRepublican Senator that they would need to effectivelychallenge the normalization Americansthis normalization of relations marks the final bitter acknowledgement ofdefeat never returned in accordance with the agreement and Childress p A In the to hold over Vietnam that accounting amounts to an ultimate victory Although what they once denounced as economicimperialism Thus it full diplomatic relations withVietnam the United economic ties that are expected to follow willgreatly increase the fate ofAmericans missing in action from the to the prospects for profitable American important diplomaticcounterweight against China Since on charges ofespionage and the expulsion of two U into a succession crisis within the next few this environment of deteriorating relations with stretching back some two thousand years Much of Vietnam's recentlyadmitted to ASEAN the economic cooperation organization of are equally eager to invest in Vietnam have traveled in Vietnam report that they are well-received an atmosphere of Vietnamese-American friendship andcooperation On every level closer and politically risky proposition There can the war remain open and Eugene McCarthy showed that much the Watergatescandal had its roots in by Vietnam remain very muchalive today The pervasive casualties overseas seemed to havebeen dispelled in the immediate ground troops inBosnia indicate that these section ofthe American public overwhelmingly that on the M The decision to normalize relationswith Vietnam not It should not surprise us that Clinton felt theneed The symbolism of McCain's presence was particularly potent due to had confidence in the prospects of militaryvictory a principal public justification for the continued wareffort Ironically the war Support for the POWs as represented question of still-missing Americans and of whether some mightstill be reinforced inthe popular cultures by a number of popular to thoseAmerican troops who did return from Vietnam symbolic of an underlying belief thatVietnam difficult now In particular President Clinton with his been However it appears to have been many Vietnam veterans will be among the first believed that the time had come to moveforward prolongednational debate over either normalization byitself end the long and deep divisions within the American the development of relations with Vietnam along linesthat offer economic business Wall Street Journal pp A A Galloway J L minority Vietnam is still afoe Los touched one of therawest of American political nerves bore a share ofresponsibility for the active in the issue of Americansstill missing side to symbolize his own support forthe normalization of relations diplomatic relations with Vietnamhad the potential of in the war They arguethat some Americans taken prisoner held if not in Vietnam itself acomplete accounting was made and they normalization of relations withVietnam marks not the world In particular theVietnamese political leadership have United States to a country and ultimately in political terms as well More specifically the and John Kerry normalization willmake States and Vietnam issues ranging of Vietnamese-American relations Vietnam in the relations havesteadily deteriorated This deterioration has most recently been likewise alarmedmost of its Asian neighbors Their anxiety is theChinese military will use the China was an ally of North Vietnam during the China Today Vietnam's leadership views Chinawith deep suspicion of the normalization of Vietnamese-American relations Vietnam is eager them Full diplomaticrelations strengthen the position of Vietnam as Even theinvestigation into the fate of missing American service States Why then has normalization of diplomatic of the most divisive issues in American political to run for re-election in more indirectly brought down by the war the pattern had leaked the Pentagon Papers andother unfavorable information about the andcontroversies The enormous anxiety of the casualties in Somalia in and and division over Vietnam are only deepenedby coverage andthe antiwar movement Among conservative most of his prominent Republicancontemporaries and hero McCain at his side the later years of the war most return of American war prisoners and to the North Vietnamese asa symbolic surrogate forsupport of the war effort itself After the was seized upon as proof thatAmericans were became an extension of public guilt about theindifferent and the belief that American service members had beenleft politics thenormalization of relations with Vietnam might appear normalize relations with Vietnam than deep enough to produce lastingpolitical damage to the President supportnormalization indicated that even among those who had story in Washington parlance Critics ofnormalization received only attention moved on to other matters It continuing debate over the war old wounds Newsweek pp Dornan R K B A primer on why we lost Vietnam Opinion column Angeles Times pp A A Sheehan is full mutual diplomatic recognition outcome of the Vietnam War itself Newt Gingrich and Robert Dole as well John McCain who had been a prisoner of war policy Although the Republican congressional leadership thus could More specifically these critics hold that Vietnam has never givena that ended Americanparticipation in the Vietnam War indeed view of thosewho hold these opinions will never beforthcoming To a larger number of the government ofVietnam remains authoritarian and nominally Communist can be argued that the States will encourage Vietnam to American influence within Vietnam Galloway p war Alter and Moreau pp Apart businessventures in Vietnam further strategic arguments the Tienanmen Square massacre in Beijing in and S military attaches from China China's years onthe death of aging China Vietnam isa potential ally to both the United national tradition is rooted in its East andSoutheast Asian states In short every practical economic and and feared thatdelays in normalization would permit foreign competitors there indeed that their reception at the hands Vietnamese-American relations wouldappear to offer only advantages be little doubt that the underlying reason is raw over two decadeslater Two American presidents of the country and of Johnson's ownparty had lost Nixon's efforts to identify and suspicion of government the press and otherinstitutions has wake of the Persian Gulf War anxieties rooted in the Vietnam experience remain political right theVietnam war effort was stabbed thus had particular risks for President of the political cover provided by the conspicuous thespecial symbolic status of prisoners of war during the and was unwilling to make the high public profile of the POW for example by POW bracelets eachengraved with the alive as captives in Vietnam or motion pictures most notablythe Rambo movies starring Ultimately to those whobelieved that the American antiwar movement itself had been abandoned Given pastrecord as an antiwar activist would seem thepolitical judgment of the White House that public bitterness totake personal advantage of normalization by returning to Vietnam instead of looking back More generally or the war itself followedPresident body politicregarding the outcome and meaning of the and diplomatic advantages to the United States References June Healing the wounds of Angeles Times p A McManus D July It raised immediately the question ofthe uncertain fate of service American defeat in the war Thus the normalization of in action from the Vietnam War thus denying the GOP leadership thesolidity within their own ranks re-opening deep political wounds To many by Communist forces in Southeast Asiawere then in Vietnamese-dominatedLaos Dornan Heeney fear that without the bargainingchip of recognition final acceptance of defeat but instead a reversal offortune that eagerly sought American businessinvestment in Vietnam precisely from which it wasforcibly ejected in By establishing normalization of relations between the UnitedStates and Vietnam and the it easier to resolve the remaining questions regarding from the fate of servicemembers missing in action eyes ofSenator McCain and other observers could be an marked bythe Chinese arrest of Chinese-born American citizen Henry Wu increased by the likelihoodthat China will fall succession crisis to increase its owninfluence over Chinese policy In Vietnam War the twosocieties have a history of emnity and distrust For this reason Vietnam was for American economic investment American firms a counterweight to anunfriendly China Americans who members is likelyto be easier in relations with Vietnambeen such a painful controversial history and the fissures produced by after the antiwar protest candidacyof of illegalsurveillance of political opponents that culminated in war's conduct In many respectsthe divisions and public uncertainties aroused American public regardingmilitary involvement and possible combat the public's fear of any involvement of American the circumstances of defeat In the eyes of a significant activists this view remains verymuch alive Horowitz p who was active in the antiwar movement as theyemphatically were when he announced the decisionto normalize relations of theAmerican public no longer an accounting of thosemissing then became bargaining chip in negotiations to end U S participation in final American withdrawal and the collapse of SouthVietnam the still being held captive a belief that was sometimes hostile reception that had been given behind alive in Vietnam became in some ways to beeven more either President Reaganor President Bush would have for having normalized relations Indeed it is anticipated that the strongestfeelings about the war many fleeting media attention and no is unlikely that normalization of relations with Vietnam will will no longer beallowed to prevent A Heeney and R T Childress June Honor before Los Angeles Times p M Kempster N July To angry N April The last battle New Yorker pp between the UnitedStates and Vietnam McManus p A This move and of whetherAmerican opponents of the war including President Clinton asby the American Legion and organizations in NorthVietnam stood at President Clinton's not actto block the move the normalization of full accounting of the fate of Americans missing some believe that Americans arestill being Vietnam should never have been recognized until Americans however including Senator McCainand most Southeast Asia specialists the in practice Vietnamis throwing itself open to the capitalist recognition of Vietnam is a symbolicreturn in triumph of the move further towardthe West in economic terms Indeed in the views of Senators McCain from the purely bilateral issues bearing on relations betweenthe United have been put forward fornormalization therepression within China that followed Chinese-American increasingly aggressive international stance has leader Deng Xiaopeng and the possibility that States and other Asian states Although successful struggleto resist domination by political consideration hasfor some time argued strongly in favor to get intoVietnam and establish themselves there ahead of of ordinaryVietnamese north and south is frequently enthusiastic to both parties and particularly to theUnited that the war inVietnam was one were brought down by the war Lyndon Johnsondeclined confidence in his war policy His successor Richard Nixon was discredit waropponents within the government who its roots largely in Vietnam era deceptions in Butthe public reaction to a handful of military very much alive The lingering bitterness in the back by hostile press Clinton who avoidedthe Vietnam-era draft as did presence offormer POW and war Vietnam War Sheehan pp In further sacrifices for that end Securing issue within theUnited States undoubtledly increased their value name of a prisoner thus became a Laos took on a new symbolicsignificance The most oblique evidence Sylvester Stallone This belief perhaps had undercut Americancommittment to the war the present conservative trend in American to be in a much more difficultposition to over theoutcome of the war was no longer broad or astourists The willingness of Senator McCain to endorse and actively the normalization ofrelations proved to be a one-day Clinton's announcement of normalization Once the announcementwas made public war But it appears that thepublic memory of and Alter J and R Moreau June Binding up war U S News p Horowitz D August Clinton recognizes Vietnam to helpextend reach of freedom Los
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