Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, left, speaks before a luncheon with then United States Vice President Joe Biden at the US State Department, Washington, DC, July 7, 2015.

Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, left, speaks before a luncheon with then United States Vice President Joe Biden at the US State Department, Washington, DC, July 7, 2015.

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