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Today Vietnam is one of America's strongest international partners, with a thriving economy and a population that welcomes American visitors. How that relationship was formed is a twenty-year story of daring diplomacy and a careful thawing of tensions between the two countries after a lengthy war that cost nearly 60,000 American and more than two million Vietnamese lives.
Ted Osius, former ambassador during the Obama administration, offers a vivid account, starting in the 1990s, of the various forms of diplomacy that made this reconciliation possible. He considers the leaders who put aside past traumas to work on creating a brighter future, including senators John McCain and John Kerry, two Vietnam veterans and ideological opponents who set aside their differences for a greater cause, and Pete Peterson—the former POW who became the first U.S. ambassador to a new Vietnam. Osius also draws upon his own experiences working first-hand with various Vietnamese leaders and traveling the country on bicycle to spotlight the ordinary Vietnamese people who have helped bring about their nation's extraordinary renaissance.
With a foreword by former Secretary of State John Kerry, Nothing Is Impossible tells an inspiring story of how international diplomacy can create a better world.
Contents
List of Photographs
Foreword by John Kerry
Preface: Biên Hòa Cemetery
A Note on the Text
1 An Improbable Friendship
2 A Time to Heal and a Time to Build
3 The Story of Pete Peterson
4 David and Goliath
5 The Legacies of War
6 Think Unthinkable Thoughts
7 Diplomacy from a Bicycle Seat
8 Châu, Khiết, and the Students of Vietnam
9 China and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
10 The Communist Party
11 The Notorious RBG
12 A New Journey
13 A New President
14 Ditches and Tree Roots
Epilogue: Reconciliation
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
