Nothing Is Impossible
America's Reconciliation with Vietnam
Ted Osius
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Nothing Is Impossible
America's Reconciliation with Vietnam
Ted Osius
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Today Vietnam is one of America's strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60, 000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives.Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation's extraordinary renaissance.With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Cover
- Praise for Nothing Is Impossible
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- List of Photographs
- Foreword by John Kerry
- Preface: Biên Hòa Cemetery
- A Note on the Text
- 1. An Improbable Friendship
- 2. A Time to Heal and a Time to Build
- 3. The Story of Pete Peterson
- 4. David and Goliath
- 5. The Legacies of War
- 6. Think Unthinkable Thoughts
- 7. Diplomacy from a Bicycle Seat
- 8. Châu, Khiết, and the Students of Vietnam
- 9. China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
- 10. The Communist Party
- 11. The Notorious RBG
- 12. A New Journey
- 13. A New President
- 14. Ditches and Tree Roots
- Epilogue: Reconciliation
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author