# United States presidential visits to Southeast Asia

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.

## Table of visits

| President | Dates | Countries | Locations | Key details |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | June 14–16, 1960 | Philippines | Manila | State visit. Met with President Carlos P. Garcia. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | October 24–26, 1966 | Philippines | Manila, Los Baños, Corregidor | Attended the Manila Summit Conference on the Vietnam War. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | October 26, 1966 | South Vietnam | Cam Ranh Bay | Visited U.S. military personnel. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | October 27–30, 1966 | Thailand | Bangkok | State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | October 30–31, 1966 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | December 23, 1967 | Thailand | Khorat | Visited US. military personnel. |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | December 23, 1967 | South Vietnam | Cam Ranh Bay | Visited U.S. military personnel. |
| Richard Nixon | July 26–27, 1969 | Philippines | Manila | State visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos. |
| Richard Nixon | July 27–28, 1969 | Indonesia | Jakarta | State visit. Met with President Suharto. |
| Richard Nixon | July 28–30, 1969 | Thailand | Bangkok | State visit. Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej. |
| Richard Nixon | July 30, 1969 | South Vietnam | Saigon, Dĩ An | Met with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. Visited U.S. military personnel. |
| Gerald Ford | December 4–5, 1975 | Indonesia | Jakarta | Official visit. Met with President Suharto. |
| Gerald Ford | December 6–7, 1975 | Philippines | Manila | Official visit. Met with President Ferdinand Marcos. |
| Ronald Reagan | April 29 – May 2, 1986 | Indonesia | Bali | Attended the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting. Met with President Suharto and Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel. |
| George H. W. Bush | January 3–5, 1992 | Singapore | Singapore | Met with President Wee Kim Wee and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Attended an ASEAN Business Council meeting. |
| Bill Clinton | November 12–13, 1994 | Philippines | Manila, Corregidor | State visit. Met with President Fidel V. Ramos. Visited Corregidor Island. |
| Bill Clinton | November 13–16, 1994 | Indonesia | Jakarta, Bogor | State visit. Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in Bogor. |
| Bill Clinton | November 24–25, 1996 | 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. |
| Bill Clinton | November 25–26, 1996 | Thailand | Bangkok | State visit. Met with Prime Minister Banharn Silpa-archa. Received an honorary degree and delivered a speech at Chulalongkorn University. |
| Bill Clinton | November 14–16, 2000 | Brunei | Bandar Seri Begawan | Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. |
| Bill Clinton | November 16–19, 2000 | 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. |
| George W. Bush | October 18–19, 2003 | Philippines | Manila | State visit. Addressed a joint session of the Congress of the Philippines. Met with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. |
| George W. Bush | October 19–21, 2003 | Thailand | Bangkok | Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. |
| George W. Bush | October 21–22, 2003 | Singapore | Singapore | Official visit. Met with President S. R. Nathan and Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. |
| George W. Bush | October 22, 2003 | Indonesia | Bali | Met with President Megawati Sukarnoputri and Islamic religious leaders. Paid respects to the victims of the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2003 Marriott Hotel bombing. |
| George W. Bush | November 16–17, 2006 | Singapore | Singapore | Official visit. Met with Acting President J. Y. Pillay and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Delivered a speech at the National University of Singapore. |
| George W. Bush | November 17–20, 2006 | 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. |
| George W. Bush | November 20, 2006 | Indonesia | Jakarta, Bogor | Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono at the Bogor Palace. |
| George W. Bush | August 6–7, 2008 | Thailand | Bangkok | Met with Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and King Bhumibol Adulyadej. Dined with Burmese activists involved in the 8888 Uprising. |
| Barack Obama | November 14–15, 2009 | Singapore | Singapore | Attended the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting. Met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. |
| Barack Obama | November 9–10, 2010 | Indonesia | Jakarta | Met with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Delivered a speech at the University of Indonesia. Visited the Istiqlal Mosque. |
| Barack Obama | November 17–20, 2011 | Indonesia | Bali | Attended the Sixth East Asia Summit. Met with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Philippine President Benigno Aquino III, and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak. |
| Barack Obama | November 18–19, 2012 | Thailand | Bangkok | Met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej at Siriraj Hospital and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra at the Government House of Thailand. Toured Wat Pho. |
| Barack Obama | November 19, 2012 | 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. |
| Barack Obama | November 19–20, 2012 | 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. |
| Barack Obama | April 26–28, 2014 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Met 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. |
| Barack Obama | April 28–29, 2014 | Philippines | Manila, Taguig | State visit. Met with President Benigno Aquino III. Conferred the Order of Sikatuna. Met with U.S. and Philippine troops and delivered remarks at Fort Bonifacio. Laid a wreath and toured the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial. |
| Barack Obama | November 12–14, 2014 | 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. |
| Barack Obama | November 17–20, 2015 | Philippines | Manila | Attended 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. Also met with Trans-Pacific Partnership and Pacific Alliance leaders. 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. Participated in the APEC 2015 CEO Summit with Alibaba founder Jack Ma and SALt lamp inventor Aisa Mijeno. |
| Barack Obama | November 20–22, 2015 | Malaysia | Kuala Lumpur | Attended 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. Participated in a town hall meeting with young Southeast Asian leaders at Taylor's University. Also participated in a round table meeting with Malaysian civil society groups at the Ritz-Carlton Kuala Lumpur. Met with Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. |
| Barack Obama | May 22–25, 2016 | 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. |
| Barack Obama | September 6–8, 2016 | Laos | Vientiane | Met with General Secretary and President Bounnhang Vorachith. Attended the Eleventh East Asia Summit and the U.S.–ASEAN summit meeting. |
| Donald Trump | November 10–12, 2017 | Vietnam | Da Nang, Hanoi | State visit. Attended the APEC Vietnam 2017 in Da Nang. Met with President Trần Đại Quang, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Communist Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng. |
| Donald Trump | November 12–14, 2017 | Philippines | Manila, Pasay | Attended the 31st ASEAN Summit. Met with President Rodrigo Duterte. |
| Donald Trump | June 10–12, 2018 | 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. |
| Donald Trump | February 26–28, 2019 | Vietnam | Hanoi | Attended 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, 2022 | Cambodia | Phnom Penh | Attended 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. |
| Joe Biden | November 13–16, 2022 | Indonesia | Bali | Attended 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. |
| Joe Biden | September 10–11, 2023 | Vietnam | Hanoi | Met with President Võ Văn Thưởng, Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính and General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng. |