France and Vietnam sign Airbus, defence deals as Macron visits Hanoi for the first time

Open this photo in gallery: France’s President Emmanuel Macron speaks in Hanoi on Monday during his first formal visit to Vietnam. The trip to the Southeast Asian country is also the first by a French president in almost a decade.LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP/Getty Images France and Vietnam signed a deal on Monday for 20 Airbus planes, as well as defence and space pacts, as President Emmanuel Macron visited Hanoi seeking to boost France's influence in its former colony, grappling with threats of crippling U.S. tariffs. Macron's first formal visit to Vietnam, the first by a French president in nearly a decade, follows…