Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said his country’s top leader recently chatted with Donald Trump and is ready to deal with the new US president and his administration.

Steve Bannon warned his former boss, President-elect Donald Trump, against being pulled into an unwinnable war in Ukraine like Richard Nixon in Vietnam.

An LCD display of US President Donald J. Trump promoting German media headlines is seen at a public station in Berlin, Germany, 27 January 2025. The headline reads, 'USA: Tariff dispute with Colombia over deportations settled'. (Filip Singer/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)

Trump has repeatedly and explicitly said he wants to use the perception he is unpredictable, and even unhinged, to boost American power.

Vietnam’s leaders congratulated Donald Trump on his inauguration, emphasizing their belief in the continued development of bilateral relations.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is in danger of failing to make a clean break with Ukraine and could be sucked deeper into Vladimir Putin’s war — just as Richard Nixon was stung in his attempts to pull out of Vietnam — Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon warned in a wide-ranging interview with POLITICO.

During his first term, Trump's tariffs caused U.S. firms to flee China. Now comes Round 2, which will create new winners and losers.

Overall, Trump’s second-term foreign policy, defense, and economic appointments suggest that security issues will dominate in Asia, despite his grumbling about trade imbalances. In addition, they suggest that his second administration will be even tougher toward China than his first, or than the Biden administration.

Kremlin propagandists have said Moscow could benefit from the new Donald Trump administration and added that the U.S. president's talk of tariffs and what he could do to end the war in Ukraine was bluster.

U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and russia Keith Kellogg said that Ukraine lost more soldiers in the russo-Ukrainian war than the U.S.

Communist Party chief To Lam’s unprecedented institutional streamlining is designed to bolster Vietnam’s competitiveness – but it could come at a cost.

New U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a call on Friday with Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son in which he urged Vietnam to address trade imbalances and also discussed shared concerns about China.