As the U.S. finds itself embroiled in a host of problems around the world, from trying to convince North Korea to come back to the bargaining table, to ramping up tensions with Iran, smoothing over differences in the decades long U.S.-Saudi alliance and hiking punishing tariffs on of $200 bn worth of Chinese goods from 10 percent to an economically damaging 25 percent, it is also at odds with Russia over its continued meddling in Ukraine, allegations of election interference in the U.S. and its support of the al-Assad regime in the ongoing Syrian Civil War. Now, it seems that the U.S. and Russia could soon be vying for a share of Vietnam’s fledgling liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. On Wednesday, Russia’s largest independent gas producer Novatek said that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Vietnam’s Ninh Thuan Provincial People’s Committee to develop an integrated energy-generating project […]