{"id":685885,"date":"2021-08-26T08:22:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T12:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=685885"},"modified":"2021-08-26T08:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T12:22:25","slug":"china-upstages-harris-in-vietnam-by-offering-twice-the-number-of-vaccines-she-was-set-to-announce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-upstages-harris-in-vietnam-by-offering-twice-the-number-of-vaccines-she-was-set-to-announce\/","title":{"rendered":"China Upstages Harris In Vietnam By Offering Twice The Number Of Vaccines She Was Set To Announce"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-upstages-harris-in-vietnam-by-offering-twice-the-number-of-vaccines-she-was-set-to-announce%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=685885&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/harris-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 trip to Vietnam was delayed for three hours, China swooped and upstaged her, offering twice as many COVID-19 vaccines as she was prepared to announce once she got there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris was set to announce a U.S. donation of one million doses of Pfizer\u2019s COVID-19 vaccine as part of a broader effort to cultivate closer ties with Vietnam and counteract Beijing\u2019s influence in the region,\u201d Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/china-harris-vietnam-vaccine-outreach-flight-delay\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Harris\u2019 team experienced a three-hour delay ahead of her planned meeting with Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, China sent its own diplomat to meet with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and offer two million vaccine doses,\u201d said Fox, citing a Washington Post<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/kamala-harris-vietnam-china-coronavirus\/2021\/08\/25\/77e51efa-0564-11ec-b3c4-c462b1edcfc8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> report.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harris\u2019 trip to Vietnam on Tuesday was delayed because of concerns about \u201can anomalous health incident\u201d in Hanoi, according to the State Department.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEarlier this evening, the vice president\u2019s traveling delegation was delayed from departing Singapore because the vice president\u2019s office was made aware of a report of a recent possible anomalous health incident in Hanoi, Vietnam,\u201d the U.S. embassy in Hanoi said in a statement. \u201cAfter careful assessment, the decision was made to continue with the vice president\u2019s trip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2021-08-24\/harris-departure-from-singapore-delayed-for-unspecified-reason\">reported<\/a> that the term has special meaning. \u201cThe State Department has frequently used the phrase \u2018anomalous health incidents\u2019 to describe so-called Havana Syndrome, which has afflicted dozens of U.S. diplomats and intelligence officials who describe feeling ill and other unusual physical sensations after hearing strange sounds. The U.S. has not determined a cause for the affliction, and the White House on Tuesday declined to say if the individual\u2019s symptoms were similar to those in other Havana Syndrome cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harris, who is on a week-long tour of Asia, was scheduled to leave Singapore at 4 p.m. local time, but reporters traveling with the vice president \u201cwere abruptly sent back to the Shangri-La hotel shortly after 3:30 p.m. local time after being loaded into vans for the planned departure from Paya Lebar Air Base. Her plane eventually took off at around 7:30 p.m. local time,\u201d Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president\u2019s office did not explain the delay. Her spokeswoman Symone Sanders told reporters before takeoff: \u201cYou saw her get onto the plane. She is well. All is fine,\u201d The Daily Mail <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9922433\/Kamala-Harris-flight-Singapore-delayed-three-hours-Havana-Syndrome.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After China upstaged the U.S. vice president, the Vietnamese prime minister thanked Beijing\u2019s diplomat and said Vietnam \u201cdoes not ally with one country to fight against another,\u201d according to Vietnamese state-run <a href=\"https:\/\/vietnamnews.vn\/politics-laws\/1018759\/pm-receives-chinese-ambassador-thanks-for-donation-of-2-million-vaccine-doses.html\">media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Harris has been harsh to China on her Asia trip. In Vietnam, she called on the nation&nbsp;to join the Biden administration to oppose China\u2019s effort to expand its influence in the South China Sea.&nbsp;\u201cWe need to find ways to pressure and raise the pressure, frankly, on Beijing to abide by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and to challenge its bullying and excessive maritime claims,\u201d Harris said at one meeting.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 trip to Vietnam was delayed for three hours, China swooped and upstaged her, offering twice as many COVID-19 vaccines as she was prepared to announce &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}