“Why the US Shouldn’t be Selling Arms to Vietnam”, 3 October 2014

The Obama administration announced…that it was relaxing a decades-old ban on sales of lethal military equipment to Vietnam. The United States will now allow the Pentagon and U.S. companies to provide Vietnam with "maritime security-related defense articles."…Looming over the decision is Vietnam's exceedingly poor human rights record and Hanoi's unwillingness to undertake basic reforms…[T]he decision to start lethal arms sales undercuts the brave work of Vietnamese activists who expect the United States and other democracies to pressure the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam to end its systematic repression and engage in serious reform…