Meanwhile, Vietnam's foreign ministry also recently ... "But, at this point in time, all parties including China do not want to escalate the situation into a full-blown military conflict," he ...

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Vietnam is a country in south-east Asia ... as a fact and the incident gave the USA the excuse it needed to escalate the war. US Secretary of Defence, Robert McNamara, withheld information ...