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In this photo gtaken Juky 7, 2015, President Barack Obama meets with Vietnamese Communist party secretary general Nguyen Phu Trong in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama could lift an embargo on arms sales when he makes his first visit to Vietnam next week. That would remove a final vestige of wartime animosity but would not please China which views growing U.S. defense ties in its backyard with deep suspicion as tensions rise in the disputed South China Sea. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

U.S. could lift arms embargo on Vietnam amid China tensions

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON - Associated Press

Cultivating relationships: President Obama will make his final trip to the G-7 summit next week, including a visit to Vietnam, where the president hopes to foster a mutual relationship against Chinese expansion in the waters around the country. (Associated Press)

Obama woos Vietnam amid China’s economic rise, South China Sea aggression

By James Borton - Special to The Washington Times

President Obama told Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung that he'll visit the communist-ruled country when he travels to Japan for the annual G-7 summit this spring. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Warming up Southeast Asia

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this photo taken Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Loyd Johnson inspects a newly formed pair of midsoles for the New Balance proposed 950v2 sneaker, that has passed military testing, before placing them in their sizing box at one of company's manufacturing facilities in Boston. New Balance is pressing the Pentagon to buy American-made footwear for the troops instead of sneakers from rival Nike that are made in China. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia)

New Balance says administration failed to deliver on sneaker deal after dropping TPP criticism

By Andrew Blake - The Washington Times

Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA director. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

BRUCE FEIN: Michael Hayden’s flawed salute to drones

By Bruce Fein

A Chinese military refueling tanker flies with fighter jets during a parade commemorating the 70th anniversary of Japan's surrender during World War II held in front of Tiananmen Gate in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

China bent on ‘hegemony in East Asia,’ Navy Adm. Harry Harris Jr. warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this May 16, 2014, file photo, Vietnamese expatriates and Filipinos display placards as they join together in a rally in front of the Chinese Consulate at the financial district of Makati city to protest the recent moves by China to construct an oil rig near the Vietnamese-claimed Paracels off the contested Spratlys group of islands and shoals in the South China Sea. China’s moves to assert its territorial claims in the South China Sea are giving fresh impetus to a Japanese push to play a bigger role in regional security, adding to the growing strains between the two Asian rivals. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez, File)

U.S. mulls selling weapons to Vietnam to stave off China military buildup in region

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is invited to join a May summit in the Russian city of Sochi between the Kremlin and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose other members are Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore and Vietnam. (Associated Press)

Russia boosts Prayuth Chan-ocha’s military in Thailand as U.S. steps aside after coup

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this June 4, 2010, file photo, the USS Curtis Wilbur arrives at a naval base in Busan, South Korea, for South Korea-U.S. joint drills. China strongly condemned the United States after the missile destroyer deliberately sailed near one of the Beijing-controlled islands in the hotly contested South China Sea to exercise freedom of navigation and challenge China's vast territorial claims. (Jo Jong-ho/Yonhap via AP) KOREA OUT

China strongly condemns U.S. for sending warship near island

By GERRY SHIH - Associated Press

DOMINIC CERTO: The saga of the Vietnam vet

By Dominic Certo

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: ‘Last to Die’ book review history check

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A man applying for a U.S. visa holds his U.S. Department of State forms and Cuban passport as he waits in line outside the U.S. Interests Section in Havana on July 1, 2015. (Associated Press) **FILE**

State Department employee sentenced for selling visas at up to $70K

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

The most common rifle in the world is most frequently associated with villains in films. Sylvester Stallone wielded an AK 47 assault rifle in Rambo III.

Sylvester Stallone says Rambo will not fight Islamic State in new film

By Eric Althoff - The Washington Times

Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz sits with Secretary of State John Kerry and Undersecretary for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman during a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif in Vienna, Austria. Moniz, the eccentric MIT professor-turned-U.S. Energy secretary, by all accounts played a pivotal role in reaching the historic nuclear accord. Now with his diplomatic legacy on the line, President Barack Obama is turning to Moniz to help sell the deal to a highly skeptical Congress. (Carlos Barria/Pool via AP, File/June 30, 2015 file-pool photo)

NEWT GINGRICH: John Kerry and lies about Iran

By Newt Gingrich

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks in Las Vegas, May 28, 2015. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Marco Rubio: ‘Ruling oligarchs,’ not Cuban people, to benefit from Obama’s opening

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

President Obama at the White House. (AP Photo) ** FILE **

Obama says he’ll visit Vietnam soon, meets with leader Nguyen Phu Trong

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier’s Memoir

By Joseph C. Goulden

Retired Air Force reserve tech Sgt. Ed Kienle, 73, pauses during an interview at his home, Thursday, June 11, 2015, in Wilmington, Ohio. The government says U.S. Air Force reservists who became ill after being exposed to Agent Orange residue while working on planes after the Vietnam War would be eligible for disability benefits. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

VA seeks to offer aid to some Air Force C-123 reservists

By HOPE YEN - Associated Press