United States presidential visits to Southeast Asia

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There have been twenty-four United States presidential visits to Southeast Asia by ten U.S. presidents. Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first incumbent president to visit a Southeast Asian country when he visited the Philippines in 1960. Since then, every president, except John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter, has travelled to the region. The Philippines, a former U.S. colony (1902–1946) and a close U.S. ally, is the most visited Southeast Asian country with ten visits, followed by Indonesia with nine, and Vietnam with eight. Of the eleven sovereign states in the region, all but East Timor have been visited by a sitting American president.

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Table of visits

PresidentDatesCountriesLocationsKey details
Dwight D. Eisenhower [1] June 14–16, 1960Flag of the Philippines (navy blue).svg  Philippines Manila State visit. Met with President Carlos P. Garcia.
Lyndon B. Johnson [2] October 24–26, 1966Manila,
Los Baños,
Corregidor
Attended the Manila Summit Conference on the Vietnam War. [3]
October 26, 1966Flag of South Vietnam.svg  South Vietnam Cam Ranh Bay Visited U.S. military personnel. [4]
October 27–30, 1966Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Bangkok State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
October 30–31, 1966Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia Kuala Lumpur State visit. Met with Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.
December 23, 1967Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand Khorat Visited US. military personnel.
December 23, 1967Flag of South Vietnam.svg  South Vietnam Cam Ranh BayVisited U.S. military personnel.
Richard Nixon [5] July 26–27, 1969Flag of the Philippines (navy blue).svg  Philippines ManilaState visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos.
July 27–28, 1969Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Jakarta State visit. Met with President Suharto.
July 28–30, 1969Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand BangkokState visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
July 30, 1969Flag of South Vietnam.svg  South Vietnam Saigon,
Dĩ An
Met with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Visited U.S. military personnel.
Gerald Ford [6] December 4–5, 1975Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia JakartaOfficial visit. Met with President Suharto.
December 6–7, 1975Flag of the Philippines (navy blue).svg  Philippines ManilaOfficial visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos.
Ronald Reagan [7] April 29 – May 2, 1986Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Bali Attended the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. Met with President Suharto and Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel.
George H. W. Bush [8] January 3–5, 1992Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore SingaporeMet with President Wee Kim Wee and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Attended an ASEAN Business Council meeting.
Bill Clinton [9] November 12–13, 1994Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines Manila,
Corregidor
State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited Corregidor Island.
November 13–16, 1994Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Jakarta,
Bogor
State visit. Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Bogor.
November 24–25, 1996Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines Manila,
Subic Bay
Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Met with Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, and South Korean President Kim Young-sam. [10]
November 25–26, 1996Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand BangkokState visit. Met with Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa. Received an honorary degree and delivered a speech at Chulalongkorn University. [11]
November 14–16, 2000Flag of Brunei.svg  Brunei Bandar Seri Begawan Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.
November 16–19, 2000Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Hanoi,
Tien Chau,
Ho Chi Minh City
Met with President Trần Đức Lương, Prime Minister Phan Văn Khải and Communist Party General Secretary Lê Khả Phiêu. Visited the Temple of Literature and the Tien Chau village in Hanoi. Viewed a cultural performance at the Hanoi Opera House. Delivered speeches at the Vietnam National University and Saigon Port. [12]
George W. Bush [13] October 18–19, 2003Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines ManilaState visit. Addressed a joint session of the Congress of the Philippines. Met with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. [14]
October 19–21, 2003Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand BangkokAttended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.
October 21–22, 2003Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore SingaporeOfficial visit. Met with President S. R. Nathan and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. [15]
October 22, 2003Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia BaliMet with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Islamic religious leaders. Paid respects to the victims of the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing. [16]
November 16–17, 2006Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore SingaporeOfficial visit. Met with Acting President J. Y. Pillay and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. [17] Delivered a speech at the National University of Singapore. [18]
November 17–20, 2006Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Hanoi,
Ho Chi Minh City
Official visit. Met with President Nguyễn Minh Triết, Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng and Communist Party General Secretary Nông Đức Mạnh. Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Visited the Cửa Bắc Church, the Museum of Vietnamese History, Institut Pasteur, and the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange. [19]
November 20, 2006Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia Jakarta,
Bogor
Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Bogor Palace. [20]
August 6–7, 2008Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand BangkokMet with Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and King Bhumibol Adulyadej. [21] [22] Dined with Burmese activists involved in the 8888 Uprising. [23]
Barack Obama [24] November 14–15, 2009Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore SingaporeAttended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. [25]
November 9–10, 2010Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia JakartaMet with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Delivered a speech at the University of Indonesia. Visited the Istiqlal Mosque. [26]
November 17–20, 2011BaliAttended the Sixth East Asia Summit. Met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. [27]
November 18–19, 2012Flag of Thailand.svg  Thailand BangkokMet with King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Siriraj Hospital and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the Government House of Thailand. Toured Wat Pho. [28]
November 19, 2012 Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar (Burma) Yangon Met with President Thein Sein, National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and members of Burmese civil society organizations. Delivered a speech at the University of Yangon. [29] [30]
November 19–20, 2012Flag of Cambodia.svg  Cambodia Phnom Penh Met with Prime Minister Hun Sen. Attended the Seventh East Asia Summit, a U.S.-ASEAN Leaders' meeting, and a meeting with Trans-Pacific Partnership leaders. [31]
April 26–28, 2014Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia Kuala LumpurMet with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdul Halim, and Prime Minister Najib Razak. Participated in a town hall meeting with young Southeast Asian leaders at the University of Malaya. [32] [33]
April 28–29, 2014Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines Manila,
Taguig
State visit. Met with President Benigno Aquino III. [34] Conferred the Order of Sikatuna. [35] Met with U.S. and Philippine troops and delivered remarks at Fort Bonifacio. [36] Laid a wreath and toured the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. [37]
November 12–14, 2014 Flag of Myanmar.svg Myanmar (Burma) Naypyidaw,
Yangon
Attended the Ninth East Asia Summit and the U.S.-ASEAN summit meeting in Naypyidaw. Met with President Thein Sein, National League for Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, members of the Assembly of the Union, House of Representatives Speaker Shwe Mann, House of Nationalities Speaker Khin Aung Myint, and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng. Participated in a town hall meeting with young Southeast Asian leaders at the University of Yangon. Toured the Ministers' Building. Also participated in a round table discussion with Burmese civil society organizations. [38] [39]
November 17–20, 2015Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines ManilaAttended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Met with President Benigno Aquino III, Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe. [40] [41] Also met with Trans-Pacific Partnership and Pacific Alliance leaders. [42] Toured the BRP Gregorio del Pilar (PF-15) and announced the U.S. government's donation of the research vessel RV Melville and the USCGC Boutwell (WHEC-719) to the Philippine Navy. [43] Participated in the APEC 2015 CEO Summit with Alibaba founder Jack Ma and SALt lamp inventor Aisa Mijeno. [44]
November 20–22, 2015Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia Kuala LumpurAttended the Tenth East Asia Summit and the U.S.-ASEAN summit meeting. Visited refugees (mostly Rohingya refugees) at the Dignity for Children Foundation refugee center. [45] Participated in a town hall meeting with young Southeast Asian leaders at Taylor's University. [46] Also participated in a round table meeting with Malaysian civil society groups at the Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur. [47] Met with Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
May 22–25, 2016Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Hanoi,
Ho Chi Minh City
Met with President Trần Đại Quang, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng. Visited the Jade Emperor Pagoda.
September 6–8, 2016Flag of Laos.svg  Laos Vientiane Met with General Secretary and President Bounnhang Vorachith. Attended the Eleventh East Asia Summit and the U.S.–ASEAN summit meeting. [48]
Donald Trump November 10–12, 2017Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam Da Nang,
Hanoi
State visit. [49] Attended the APEC Vietnam 2017 in Da Nang. [50] [51] Met with President Trần Đại Quang, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng.
November 12–14, 2017Flag of the Philippines.svg  Philippines Manila,
Pasay
Attended the 31st ASEAN Summit. Met with President Rodrigo Duterte. [52]
June 10–12, 2018Flag of Singapore.svg  Singapore Central Area, Sentosa Island Attended the first North Korea–United States summit with North Korean chairman Kim Jong-un. Also met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
February 26–28, 2019Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam HanoiAttended the second North Korea–United States summit with North Korean chairman Kim Jong Un. Also met with General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng and Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.
Joe Biden November 12–13, 2022Flag of Cambodia.svg  Cambodia Phnom PenhAttended the U.S.–ASEAN Summit and the Seventeenth East Asia Summit at Sokha Hotel. Met with Prime Minister Hun Sen, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol. [53]
November 13–16, 2022Flag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia BaliAttended the 2022 G20 summit. Met with President Joko Widodo, Chinese President Xi Jinping, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. [53]
September 10–11, 2023Flag of Vietnam.svg  Vietnam HanoiMet with President Võ Văn Thưởng, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính and General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng.

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