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The visit includes several cultural and community events, such as a US Navy band concert, a visit to an orphanage and sports matches. This is the third visit by a US aircraft carrier to Vietnam after a historic port call by the USS Carl Vinson in 2018, the first time such a ship had arrived in the country since the end of the Vietnam War.

Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Pham Thu Hang said earlier in the week that port calls were an “ordinary friendship exchange for peace, stability, and cooperation and development in the region and the world.” The US aircraft carrier’s visit follows the arrival of Indian naval ships in Danang last month, as well as a port call by Japan’s largest warship in Cam Ranh, a city on the southeastern coast, earlier this week. Towers, wife of the Deputy Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Fleet, christened the ship Coral Sea at the 29 April 1945 launching.On, President Harry S. Roosevelt was laid down at New York Naval Shipyard on 1 December 1943. “The visit gives that message that Vietnam is continuing to balance against China by improving its security relationship with the US, and with other outside powers,” said Nguyen The Phuong, a doctoral candidate in maritime security at the University of New South Wales Canberra. Early career Roosevelt at commissioning ceremonies in 1945. The boats eventually left early this month. Vietnam and the US share increasingly close trade links, as well as concerns over China’s growing strength in the region.Ī Chinese survey vessel, multiple coast guard ships and fishing boats operated for several weeks in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, prompting the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to demand that they leave.