{"id":6802,"date":"2025-02-17T14:44:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-usaid-cuts-halt-agent-orange-victims-program-in-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:44:15","slug":"trumps-usaid-cuts-halt-agent-orange-victims-program-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/trumps-usaid-cuts-halt-agent-orange-victims-program-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s USAID Cuts Halt Agent Orange Victims Program in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Nearly 40 years after she was born with a malformed spine and misshapen limbs \u2014 most likely because her father was exposed to Agent Orange, the toxic chemical that the American military used during the Vietnam War \u2014 Nguyen Thi Ngoc Diem finally got some help from the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A project funded by U.S.A.I.D. gave her graphic design training in 2022 and helped her land a job. Even when the company closed a few months ago, she stayed hopeful: The same program for Agent Orange victims was due to deliver a new computer, or a small loan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">I was the first to tell her that the support may never come; that President Trump had frozen U.S.A.I.D. funding and planned to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/us\/politics\/usaid-job-cuts.html\" title=\"\">fire nearly everyone<\/a> associated with the humanitarian agency.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt makes no sense,\u201d Ms. Diem told me, her tiny body curled into a wheelchair, below a crucifix on the wall. \u201cAgent Orange came from the U.S. \u2014 it was used here, and that makes us victims,\u201d she said. \u201cA little support for people like us means a lot, but at the same time, it\u2019s the U.S.\u2019s responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As Mr. Trump and Elon Musk gut U.S.A.I.D., this can now be added to the list of effects: Two months before the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War\u2019s end, with ceremonies already planned, they have demolished the main American outlet for making amends, shaking the foundation of a partnership meant to be a bulwark against China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">As many as three million Vietnamese have been affected by Agent Orange, including more than 150,000 children born with serious developmental problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Addressing the painful legacy of the chemical\u2019s wartime use as a defoliant, along other issues tied to American military involvement in Vietnam, has offered the U.S. a chance to fuse past and present, soft power and hard power, in the service of courting a rising regional power.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">That\u2019s now halted. Bulldozers that were cleaning up contamination at a former American air base in southern Vietnam \u2014 which both countries might eventually want to use \u2014 have gone silent. Around 1,000 mine-removal workers in central Vietnam have been sent home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And with the suspension of aid for Agent Orange victims, along with efforts to find and identify Vietnam\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2023\/07\/07\/overcoming-our-legacies-of-war-us-now-aiding-vietnam-finding-countrys-missing-action.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">missing war dead<\/a>, Mr. Trump has essentially stalled 30 years of progress in bringing together former enemies, including two militaries still feeling out whether to trust one another.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Vietnam\u2019s leaders have tread carefully with the Trump administration, hoping to avoid its punitive tariffs, they have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dohungviet\/status\/1888562617402454500?t=BmNgn7gQimliXSSGv3O0aQ&amp;s=09\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lamented the loss<\/a> of war legacy programs. They have long viewed the work as a prerequisite for almost everything else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">American officials who spent a lifetime building bilateral bonds are especially furious, signing <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/news\/former-us-ambassadors-urge-continued-demining-efforts-in-southeast-asia-4849093.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">open letters<\/a> of complaint and condemning what they see as a plainly misguided move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOne thing I know about the Vietnamese is that they want to know they can depend on us; that we won\u2019t lose interest and walk away,\u201d said Tim Rieser, a former foreign policy aide to Senator Patrick J. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who led legislative efforts on war legacy issues before retiring in 2023. \u201cAnd that\u2019s what the Trump administration is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">American military commanders see Vietnam, with its strategic location, as vital for maintaining stability in Asia, especially as China has become more aggressive around the shipping lanes and islands off the Vietnamese coast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">U.S. Navy warships have made <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/mod.gov.vn\/en\/event\/detail?current=true&amp;urile=wcm:path:\/mod\/sa-mod-en\/sa-en-news\/sa-en-news-rela\/920cad40-934b-4885-84ca-aecd56911455\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">several port visits<\/a> to Vietnam since 2018. More are expected. And in a sign of Pentagon support for aid as a tool of alliance-building, half of the funding that U.S.A.I.D. manages for Agent Orange cleanup comes from the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Perhaps some of that will survive. According to the official <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/vn.usembassy.gov\/readout-of-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseths-call-with-vietnams-minister-of-national-defence-general-phan-van-giang\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">account<\/a> of a call on Feb. 7 between Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vietnam\u2019s defense minister, Gen. Phan Van Giang, Mr. Hegseth \u201cunderscored the department\u2019s support for ongoing efforts to collaborate on legacy of war issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift the U.S.A.I.D. funding freeze, setting a Tuesday deadline for evidence of compliance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But as of Monday in Vietnam, the work stoppage was still in effect. Even if funding returns, in a year meant to mark recovery from the darkness of a cruel war, fundamental damage has already been done in ways that feel \u2014 for partners and victims in both countries \u2014 like a knife shoved into old wounds.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-652326fc\">From Enemies to Partners<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Combat veterans were the original reconcilers. At first, they partnered up at the squad level, to rid battlegrounds of unexploded ordnance. But once Washington and Hanoi got on board, bigger problems were tackled, starting with Da Nang Airport, a former American military base near the old dividing line between North and South Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It had been a centerpiece of the campaign to clear vegetation with Agent Orange, named for the colored stripe on its barrels and notorious for containing 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin \u2014 one of the most noxious substances ever created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the start, no one knew if the airport\u2019s poisoned land could be made safe. The projected cost of remediation tripled. But after seven years and more than $115 million in U.S. assistance, it was clean. So clean that Mr. Trump landed there with Air Force One in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Bien Hoa air base, about 20 miles outside Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, is a tougher challenge: a 10-year, $450 million project involving the treatment of enough contaminated earth to fill 200 Olympic-sized swimming pools. The United States has contributed more than $160 million so far, out of a pledge of $300 million under U.S.A.I.D. management.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Tetra Tech, an American engineering firm hired by U.S.A.I.D. for part of the project, did not respond to emails asking about its status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When I visited the busy neighborhood around the base last week, a Vietnamese military officer confirmed that the cleanup had been halted, creating anxiety in the city. Many of the homes nearby had been inside the base\u2019s perimeter, until its footprint was condensed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Dinh Thi Lan, 56, told me that in 1991, she was one of the first to move onto a street that abutted the base and a contaminated lake. During seasonal floods, she said, fish would sometimes flop out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI ate the fish,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m worried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Behind her, in a back room, I could see a photo of a bright-eyed man with thick hair, above candles on a dark wood table.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cMy husband,\u201d she told me. \u201cHe died of stomach cancer in 2009. He was 39.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-5e7b0b68\">Searching for Impact<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During the war, Dong Nai Province, with Bien Hoa at its southeastern edge, became a logistics hub for North Vietnamese soldiers as they prepared to take Saigon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Before that, the U.S. military had tried to strip the verdant landscape of food and cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Pilots usually flew 150 feet from the ground. They sprayed 56 percent of Dong Nai with <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.org\/programs\/agent-orange-in-vietnam-program\/maps-of-heavily-sprayed-areas-and-dioxin-hot-spots\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 1.8 million gallons<\/a> of Agent Orange \u2014 more than in any other province in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Truong Thi Nguyet, 75, joined the guerrilla ranks in Dong Nai at 16. After the war, she founded one of Vietnam\u2019s first rehabilitation centers for people with disabilities caused by Agent Orange, which the United States banned in 1971.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In remote villages, she found dozens of boys and girls with missing or malformed limbs, deafness, cerebral palsy, cognitive impairment and sometimes <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/asej.12265\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">all of the above<\/a>. One morning, she discovered a poor family so overwhelmed that they had put their severely disabled daughter in a cage outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI never thought I would tell anyone this story,\u201d Ms. Nguyet said when I visited her home in Dinh Quan township. \u201cIt was so painful, and I was so angry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI tried to raise some money and convince the family to build a small room in the house,\u201d she added. \u201cAfter a while, with some financial support, they did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Most of the funding for the rehab center comes from the Vietnamese government. But a sign over the door declares that U.S.A.I.D. provided equipment in 2020: a few desks and a metal bed; a playroom with a climbing wall and a pool of candy-colored plastic balls.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-10\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Since 1991, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/u-s-relations-with-vietnam\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to the State Department<\/a>, the U.S. government has contributed about $155 million to improve the lives of people with disabilities in areas affected by Agent Orange and leftover explosives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The U.S.A.I.D. program that benefited Ms. Diem, the graphic designer, is limited in scope. Last year, just 45 Agent Orange victims in Dong Nai (out of 9,000) received no-interest loans of a little under $800. Some bought scooters, and others invested in goats, said Nguyen Van Thinh, 47, the leader of a club that has 260 members with disabilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ms. Diem was among 11 women who were approved for smaller loans this year under a \u201csocial inclusion\u201d program. Her commitment and grit are undeniable. After high school, she went to college away from home, persuading friends and strangers to carry her to class or the bathroom. She earned a degree in information technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-12\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, all she wants is a computer for doing her design work \u2014 support she was promised by the United States, which contaminated her country and gnarled her body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI want to feel connected with the world,\u201d she told me. \u201cI want to be less of a burden.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     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