High hopes and new realities for the Vietnam-US relationship

For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Hoang Anh Tuan, Director-General of the Institute for Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam, explains that "Few can doubt after President Truong's visit that both the United States and Vietnam are looking to further build on the foundation of bilateral trust already in place between the two countries.