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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a gathering with women leaders connected voting rights successful the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Friday, July 16, 2021, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

WASHINGTON – Vice President Kamala Harris volition sojourn Singapore and Vietnam adjacent period connected a travel focused connected strengthening economical ties and celebrating America’s taste transportation with the Indo-Pacific region.

It volition beryllium Harris' archetypal overseas question and 2nd overseas trip, aft she visited Guatemala and Mexico successful June arsenic portion of her relation starring diplomatic efforts to code the basal causes of migration to the United States. And it volition beryllium the archetypal clip a U.S. vice president has visited Vietnam.

Harris volition beryllium the highest-ranking authoritative from President Joe Biden's medication to sojourn Asia. Her sojourn comes arsenic the medication is working to antagonistic China’s influence successful the portion and globally.

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According to main Harris spokesperson Symone Sanders, Harris volition conscionable with the leaders of Singapore and Vietnam to sermon determination security, the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.

“President Biden and Vice President Harris person made it a apical precedence to rebuild our planetary partnerships and support our federation secure, and this upcoming sojourn continues that enactment — deepening our engagement successful Southeast Asia," Sanders said Friday, adding that Harris would beryllium “the archetypal vice president to ever sojourn Vietnam.”

The Biden medication has placed an accent connected strengthening diplomatic ties with nations successful the Indo-Pacific portion to propulsion backmost against China. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is visiting the portion this week, with a absorption connected offering enactment for Southeast Asian nations embroiled successful territorial rifts with China.

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