China publicly praised Obama’s decision to lift the U.S. arms embargo.
“(The) arms sales ban was a product of the Cold War and should no longer exist,” China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying told reporters. “We hope the lifting of all such bans will benefit regional peace and development. And we are happy to see the United States and Vietnam develop normal cooperative relations.”
President Barack Obama is scheduled to arrive in Japan next and will conclude his trip later this week in Hiroshima. He will become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the site where the U.S. dropped two atomic bombs in 1945.
