What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.

For Vietnam to step forward [on security cooperation], they have to step forward in two directions. They don't want to be roped into a US containment policy towards China. They want the US to remain engaged [in Asia], but they don't want to get too close.

We know over the last year, in the build-up, there had been attempts to get him to step down, to attack his leadership. I don't see the fire from these sparks. It seems to have died out.

For Vietnam to step forward [on security cooperation], they have to step forward in two directions. They don't want to be roped into a US containment policy towards China…. They want the US to remain engaged [in Asia], but they don't want to get too close.

For Vietnam to step forward [on security cooperation], they have to step forward in two directions. They don't want to be roped into a US containment policy towards China.... They want the US to remain engaged [in Asia], but they don't want to get too close.

There is normative pressure building up regionally in support of peacekeeping under U.N. auspices.