(19 Mar 2025)
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ARCHIVE: Dong Nai province, Vietnam – 17 October 2018
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1. Various of aircraft at Bien Hoa Air Base ahead of dioxin decontamination project
2. Various of sign reading (Vietnamese): "Danger: Agent Orange contaminated area. No cattle grazing or fishing."
3. Close of map showing contaminated areas
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Adelaide, Australia – 19 March 2025
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nguyen Khac Giang, political analyst:
“It’s very important for Vietnam to have the support from the U.S. to solve all the war legacy issues. And for the U.S. I think it’s very important because it is, first, a sign of goodwill for the U.S. to build trust with Vietnam, a former enemy but now it’s a very important state for the U.S. in this Indo-Pacific strategy. So, in order to build trust, of course, you have to clear all the problems in the past, and solving the war legacy issue, including cleaning up the areas of dioxin is important in that regard.”
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ARCHIVE: undated, location unknown
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5. U.S. aircraft spraying herbicides
6. Defoliated forest
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Adelaide, Australia – 19 March 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nguyen Khac Giang, political analyst:
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“The eroding trust, I think, would have a very devastating impact in the long term, first for the both governments to build trust and to have more significant projects going forward, especially when the U.S. wants to pivot Vietnam toward the U.S. system in their efforts to contain China. And secondly, when U.S. manufactures and investors (want) to come to Vietnam and invest in Vietnam.”
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ARCHIVE: Danang, Vietnam – 24 April 2013
8. Various of container to treat contaminated soil under construction
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Danang, Vietnam – 7 March 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Nguyen Van An, chair of Association for Victims of Agent Orange in Danang:
“I think the U.S. government and Agent Orange manufacturers must have the responsibility to support the victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam so they can overcome the pain, hardship and have a stable life.”
10. Various of people who have been affected by Agent Orange at a care center
STORYLINE:
At a former American air base in southern Vietnam, work abruptly stopped last month on efforts to clean up tons of soil contaminated with deadly dioxin from the military’s Agent Orange defoliant.
The Trump administration’s broad cuts to USAID also halted efforts to clear unexploded American munitions and landmines, a rehabilitation program for war victims, and work on a museum exhibit detailing U.S. efforts to remediate the damage of the Vietnam War.
In addition to exposing thousands of people to health hazards, the cuts risk jeopardizing hard-won diplomatic gains with Vietnam, which is strategically increasingly important as the U.S. looks for support in its efforts to counter a growingly aggressive China.
Funding for the cleanup at Bien Hoa Air Base was frozen for about a week and then restored, but it’s unclear whether funds are fully flowing or how they’ll be disbursed with no USAID employees left to administer operations, said Tim Rieser, a senior adviser to Sen. Peter Welch, who drafted a letter to administration officials signed by Welch and more than a dozen other Democratic senators urging the continued funding of the programs.
Other programs remain cut.
“They have reversed a number of these arbitrary decisions, but we’re far from out of the woods and we don’t know how this is going to end,” Rieser said.
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