President Barack Obama used a visit to Hanoi this week to announce that the US was ending a 50-year arms embargo on Communist Vietnam, in the latest push to strengthen opposition to China's territorial ambitions in Asia’s seas. Michael Peel, the FT's Bangkok correspondent, reports.

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