HANOI -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen hopped on a scarlet, made-in-Vietnam electric motorbike in Hanoi on Thursday and sent a dual message: Washington sees the Southeast Asian country as a key partner for both green energy and supply-chain resilience.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen checks out an electric scooter from Vietnamese startup Selex Motors with co-founder Nguyen Nguyen at a factory on the edge of Hanoi. (Photo by Lien Hoang)
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