Former Pan Am stewardesses reflect on daring 1975 Saigon rescue mission – CBS News Watch CBS News This week marks 50 years since the fall of Saigon, effectively ending the Vietnam War. In those waning days, emergency evacuations of U.S. civilians turned to chaos. Elizabeth Cook has the story of a group of flight attendants…
China will hold off on entering serious trade talks with the US while it waits to see which of Donald Trump’s advisers will have his ear and how other countries will respond to the 90-day pause on tariffs, according to sources. The Trump administration was “too divided” and China was in no rush to negotiate…
You’ve probably seen pictures of the mob which stormed the American Embassy in Saigon desperate to find a way out in the final hours of the Vietnam War. But maybe you haven’t heard the radio transmissions of the American pilots who pulled off the largest helicopter evacuation in history. I know I hadn’t, until we…
From the archives: Ed Bradley’s escape from Vietnam during the evacuation of Saigon – CBS News Watch CBS News From 1975, Ed Bradley’s harrowing report on the evacuation of Saigon ahead of its fall and his escape from Vietnam. Following Bradley’s report, Hughes Rudd interviews the correspondent about his experience. Be the first to know…
Southeast Asian countries risk isolation by China and stalled growth prospects if they align too closely with the US in the trade war, a well-known Chinese political scientist has warned. Zheng Yongnian, dean of the school of public policy at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, said that supporting the re-industrialisation efforts of the Association…
At the end of the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese soldiers swarmed a Pan Am airliner to save themselves from the rapidly-advancing North Vietnamese army. CBS News correspondent Bruce Dunning, who was on board, reported: “They left their wives, their children, their aged parents on the runway, while they forced their own way on board, a…
Fifty years ago, when the city of Saigon fell and the U.S. military intervention in Southeast Asia came to an end, President Gerald Ford faced a choice: Many anti-communist South Vietnamese feared forced relocation and political persecution at home, and looked to America for refuge. But the American public was bitterly divided over whether to…
Beijing has sent condolences on the passing of Pope Francis, along with reassurances that China is ready to continue to work constructively with the Vatican. Despite having no normal diplomatic relations as the Vatican is among a handful of states that still recognise Taiwan, the two sides have maintained a cordial relationship. The main reason…
Donald Trump’s trade war may be a threat to China’s economy, but it may also offer a chance to improve relations with Europe and its neighbours in Asia, as well as “rehabilitating” its image internationally, according to analysts. Beijing has already started working to improve relations with these countries and forge alternative trade agreements and…
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Washington and Beijing were talking and expressed confidence that a deal on tariffs would be reached soon but declined to say if he had spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping, as a brewing trade war threatens to roil the global economy. “We are confident that we will…