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US SECRETARY of State John Kerry returned to Vietnam yesterday on a goodwill visit five decades after he fought in the imperialist war there.
His visit marked the 20th anniversary of the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
At the end of a five-nation tour of south-east Asia, Mr Kerry said the Vietnam war was the result of a “most profound failure of diplomatic insight and political vision.”
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PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants
STEPHEN BELL reports from a delegation that traced the steps of China’s socialist revolution from its first modest meetings to the Red Army’s epic 9,000km battle to create the modern nation that today defies every capitalist assumption
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride