[Seow Leow] Biden invites ASEAN leaders to Washington for "special summit" at end March

[red amoeba]

Biden offered 1.5bn investment in ASEAN. I think he is under estimating the intelligence of ASEAN leaders.
Winnie himself, for comparison, has invested 15bn.

 

[A Singaporean]

Ha ha ha.

 

[A Singaporean]

Biden offered 1.5bn investment in ASEAN. I think he is under estimating the intelligence of ASEAN leaders.
Winnie himself, for comparison, has invested 15bn.

Is 150 million not 1.5 Bn.

 

[Rogue Trader]

Vietcong PM no give face to Team Biden.. Laugh at them behind their backs

Vietnamese delegation’s loose lips caught on video during US-ASEAN summit​

The video shows high-ranking officials using crude language and boasting about putting Biden in ‘checkmate’
By RFA’s Vietnamese Service
2022.05.16

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken greets Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh during a bilateral meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S. May 13, 2022.

A video that captured crass remarks made by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and other high-ranking officials prior to their meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken went viral over the weekend and was removed from the U.S. State Department’s YouTube account.

The Vietnamese officials met with Blinken on Friday as part of the two-day U.S.- summit with the 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations.

According to a series of tweets about the incident by Southeast Asia analyst Nguyen Phuong Linh, the video shows the Vietnamese delegation laughing that U.S. President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Chinh that he could “not trust Russia.” Chinh also describes the meeting with Biden as “straightforward and fair and that Vietnam isn’t afraid of anyone,” after which the Vietnamese ambassador to the U.S., Nguyen Quoc Dzung, said they “put [Biden] into checkmate."

Minister of Public Security To Lam is also seen praising the former deputy national security adviser during the Trump administration, Matthew Pottinger, for being young and smart and having a wife who was born in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese officials also refer to a number of U.S. officials without using honorific terms that, in the Vietnamese language, should be used in formal situations.

The dialogue caught in the video “might indicate a more serious issue of how dysfunctional the incumbent cabinet in [Vietnam] is in general, and how incompetent the [Vietnamese] leaders are in terms of comms, foreign affairs and security,” Linh said.

The video was published shortly after the delegation's meeting with Blinken on Friday but by Saturday evening, it became “unavailable” on YouTube. RFA was not able to determine why the video was removed from the State Department’s account.

“So embarrassing for the Vietnamese that the State Dept. appears to have taken the video offline,” former BBC journalist Bill Hayton wrote on his Twitter account

The State Department typically captures video footage of dignitaries prior to meetings with its senior staff and shares the videos on its YouTube account. In most cases, these videos will show smiles and handshakes and are largely uneventful.

RFA’s Vietnamese Service, which shared the video on its Facebook account, received comments from followers that were critical of the Vietnamese delegation.

“Talking about your host while you’re a guest at their house is so uneducated,” Facebook user Kien Nguyen commented.

“This kind of language, coming from the Prime Minister’s mouth. It sounds like what you hear in bus stations,” Hoa Nguyen, another Facebook user, said.

Translated by An Nguyen. Written in English by Eugene Whong.

 

[LordElrond]

Vietcong PM no give face to Team Biden.. Laugh at them behind their backs

Vietnamese delegation’s loose lips caught on video during US-ASEAN summit​

The video shows high-ranking officials using crude language and boasting about putting Biden in ‘checkmate’
By RFA’s Vietnamese Service
2022.05.16

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken greets Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh during a bilateral meeting in Washington, D.C., U.S. May 13, 2022.

A video that captured crass remarks made by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and other high-ranking officials prior to their meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken went viral over the weekend and was removed from the U.S. State Department’s YouTube account.

The Vietnamese officials met with Blinken on Friday as part of the two-day U.S.- summit with the 10-member Association for Southeast Asian Nations.

According to a series of tweets about the incident by Southeast Asia analyst Nguyen Phuong Linh, the video shows the Vietnamese delegation laughing that U.S. President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Chinh that he could “not trust Russia.” Chinh also describes the meeting with Biden as “straightforward and fair and that Vietnam isn’t afraid of anyone,” after which the Vietnamese ambassador to the U.S., Nguyen Quoc Dzung, said they “put [Biden] into checkmate."

Minister of Public Security To Lam is also seen praising the former deputy national security adviser during the Trump administration, Matthew Pottinger, for being young and smart and having a wife who was born in Vietnam.

The Vietnamese officials also refer to a number of U.S. officials without using honorific terms that, in the Vietnamese language, should be used in formal situations.

The dialogue caught in the video “might indicate a more serious issue of how dysfunctional the incumbent cabinet in [Vietnam] is in general, and how incompetent the [Vietnamese] leaders are in terms of comms, foreign affairs and security,” Linh said.

The video was published shortly after the delegation's meeting with Blinken on Friday but by Saturday evening, it became “unavailable” on YouTube. RFA was not able to determine why the video was removed from the State Department’s account.

“So embarrassing for the Vietnamese that the State Dept. appears to have taken the video offline,” former BBC journalist Bill Hayton wrote on his Twitter account

The State Department typically captures video footage of dignitaries prior to meetings with its senior staff and shares the videos on its YouTube account. In most cases, these videos will show smiles and handshakes and are largely uneventful.

RFA’s Vietnamese Service, which shared the video on its Facebook account, received comments from followers that were critical of the Vietnamese delegation.

“Talking about your host while you’re a guest at their house is so uneducated,” Facebook user Kien Nguyen commented.

“This kind of language, coming from the Prime Minister’s mouth. It sounds like what you hear in bus stations,” Hoa Nguyen, another Facebook user, said.

Translated by An Nguyen. Written in English by Eugene Whong.

I love that reporting “so embarrassing for Vietnam” really???

 

[Rogue Trader]

This incident was not mentioned at all by the newsfeed for obvious reasons. Now Hun Sen sibeh tulan his security detail in US was so fucked up. Make him laokui

National
May 18, 2022

PM hopes US will take action in shoe-hurling incident​

Soth Koemsoeun / Khmer Times

Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that he will not demand that the US government punishes a man who threw a shoe at him on the eve of the ASEAN-US Special Summit in Washington, DC, but expects legal action by the Pentagon against the culprit.

Mr Hun Sen, while addressing Samdech Techo Youth Volunteer Doctors at Chroy Changva district in Phnom Penh, also said that neither the Ministry of Foreign Affairs nor the Cambodian Embassy in the United States would take action against the man. He also asked the US whether it considers such shoe-throwing as freedom of expression or a case of violence.

In the incident, a 71-year-old Cambodian-American named Ouk Touch hurled a shoe at Mr Hun Sen while he was interacting and taking selfies with the Cambodian community in the US. However, the shoe missed his target and hit a Hun Sen admirer’s phone.

Mr Hun Sen told the US that if it considers throwing shoes at politicians as “freedom of expression”, such cases would occur in other countries, including Cambodia, as well.

“This is not a trivial matter. Let the United States think carefully. If violent acts using shoes are considered a right of expression then there will be no law and order in the world,” he said.

Drawing a comparison with the 2008 shoe-hurling incident against former US president George W Bush in Iraq, and his subsequent refusal for an action against the US culprit, Mr Hun Sen said that the man was charged under the Iraqi law and sent to three years in prison. Later, the jail term was reduced to one year.

Mr Hun Sen also urged NGOs to be careful about making their comments on the media, because his supporters in Cambodia are upset over the incident.

Political analyst Em Sovannara said yesterday that the incident can be considered as freedom of expression in the US, but in Cambodia and other countries it is an act of violence.

“Asking for clarification from the United States on public platforms on whether it is an act of violence or a rightful expression, I think, is not effective. The Prime Minister should write an official letter to the US Embassy. Then, they might respond,” he added.

In an interview with Radio Free Asia, Touch revealed that he had previously attempted to throw a shoe at Mr Hun Sen by pretending to be one of his supporters during the ASEAN-South Korea Special Summit in Seoul. That’s why he tried to do that again during the ASEAN-US Special Summit.

Explaining his motive, Touch said he was angry with Mr Hun Sen for allegedly killing his relatives and many other Cambodians during his more than 30-year rule in Cambodia.

 

[saynotomsm]

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