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A US Navy officer takes a photo as the sun sets over the hills of Vietnam while aboard the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), the US Navy's nuclear-powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, anchored off the coast in Danang on March 5, 2018. The USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) arrived in Vietnam March 5 for the first time since the end of the war, as the former foes bolster military ties in the face of Beijing's build-up in the disputed South China Sea. The carrier will make a four-day port call for a highly symbolic trip that will include a visit to a centre for victims of Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant sprayed over large swathes of land by the US during the Vietnam war. / AFP PHOTO / LINH PHAM (Photo credit should read LINH PHAM/AFP via Getty Images)