U.S. Lifts Decades-Long Arms Embargo On Vietnam

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President Obama, on the first day of his first trip to Vietnam, announced that the U.S. is lifting its embargo on selling military equipment to Vietnam, which has been in place since the Vietnam War. Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks to the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head about the significance of the announcement, and why it's happening now.