Vietnam not seeking alliance

BEIJING - Vietnam is not becoming a military ally with the United States, a Vietnamese diplomat said on Wednesday.

"We are not going to be military allies with the US or any other country," Chu Ngoc Nho, Deputy Defense Attach of the Vietnam Embassy, said in a phone interview with China Daily.

"Non-alignment is a clear stand of Vietnam. We are not looking to draw any country in for confrontation with a third party."