Vietnam twice besieged the head of the Pentagon
Sudden repulse from little Vietnam received the United States during the visit of the head of the Pentagon Ashton Carter to Hanoi.

Sudden repulse from little Vietnam received the United States during the visit of the head of the Pentagon Ashton Carter to Hanoi.
According to the results of the negotiations, the Vietnamese Minister of defense twice stopped a North American colleague, denying ourselves to listen to the recommendations according to the resolution of a territorial dispute with China, as well as complaints USA under the pretext of human rights.
The Minister of defense of Vietnam Phung Quang Thanh has rejected the recommendations of the U.S. according to the resolution of the Maritime dispute among Hanoi and Beijing in the South China sea. During the visit the head of the Pentagon Ashton Carter, he politely but firmly refused the services of a private North American colleagues, who tried to assume the role of judge and peacemaker in the incident 2 States.
Vietnam and China earlier many years have mutual claims on the border in the South China sea. Another complication of the situation caused the dynamism of the two States, is building in disputed territory embankments and artificial Islands with the target host there own troops. Carter during the visit he called on both parties to terminate such activity.
However, in return, taciturn consent of the head of the Pentagon received a sudden resistance from native Vietnamese colleagues. Phung Quang Thanh agreed with the Minister from the United States, declaring that Vietnam does not build, unlike China, artificial Islands. The Islands Hanoi is not increasing but only strengthens, preventing erosion of the coastline by marine tides, he said.
The second flick on the nose Carter acquired during the discussion of the supply of weapons to Vietnam. The head of the Pentagon has indicated that the dialogue on the abolition of the ban on lethal weapons are held in this matter provides for all without exception conditions, such as human rights violations (often human rights activists complain of Vietnam). In response Phung Quang Thanh said that the elimination of the arms embargo "in the interests of the two States, and I don't think we need to combine this issue with respect for human rights", is Associated Press.
Note that not only Vietnam with irritation reacts to US attempts to interfere in the dispute over Islands in the South China sea. Previously, the noise broke out between the military departments of the USA and the PRC. The naval forces of China said that over the disputed Spratly Islands flying military ship of the USA the Boeing P-8 Poseidon, and asked the members of his crew. Adepts strange military Department asked Americans to leave the area.
We will remind, on the island and located near the Spratly archipelago in the South China sea claimed by China, the Philippines, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan. Without exception, all of them (except Brunei) contain its own military garrisons in those or other disputed areas. Contested terrain, as is supposed, possess large reserves of hydrocarbons. The PRC determined on a section of the offshore drilling rig to search for oil and gas.