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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 relationship with - against China. They - the Chinese and the Vietnamese have always had a very suspicious relationship of each other.

Michael W. Michalak

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Michael W. Michalak
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: January 1
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