US-Vietnam relations: Biden’s ‘friendshoring’ chips push hits a snag as Hanoi ‘cannot decouple from China’
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Biden hailed the deals done on his recent Hanoi trip as ‘critical’ to creating a ‘more resilient’ semiconductor supply chain, but Vietnam imports the bulk of its components from China – and suffers a chronic shortage of tech talent.