Jonathan Stromseth is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington.
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U.S. President Joe Biden, left, with Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, at a military welcome ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Sept.10. (Pool via AP)
Jonathan Stromseth is a nonresident senior fellow in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington.