From the United States, Vietnam is looking for two things. One of them is a very stable and continuing to expand economic relationship. Secondly, the…

- Michael W. Michalak

In the South China Sea and underneath the South China Sea, of course, there's a lot of raw materials. There are very rich fishing grounds there, so t…

- Michael W. Michalak

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the Unit…

- Michael W. Michalak

Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a poll was taken, somewh…

- Michael W. Michalak

For a thousand years, Vietnam was a part of China. And that thousand years is punctuated throughout by rebellions from Vietnam.

- Michael W. Michalak

We can choose our friends, but we can't choose our neighbors.

- Michael W. Michalak

And I think that Vietnameese see the United States as a source of markets, as a source of technology and as a source of this balancing power relation…

- Michael W. Michalak