The President of the United States of America (USA) will visit Vietnam in September, where he will meet with the main Vietnamese leaders, with the aim of strengthening relations between Hanoi and Washington, the White House announced Monday.
One of the main meetings scheduled on Joe Biden’s agenda is with Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (PCV, in power in the country).
Biden will arrive in Hanoi on September 10, beginning his one-day visit to the Vietnamese capital, after participating in the annual summit of the leaders of the G20 (the group of the 20 largest economies in the world), which will take place in India. .
“Leaders should discuss opportunities to promote the growth of a technology-focused and innovation-driven Vietnamese economy, expand our people-to-people ties through educational exchanges and workforce development programs, combat climate change, and increase the peace, prosperity and stability in the region,” White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement.
Throughout his presidential term, Biden has stressed the need to improve and expand relations with Southeast Asia, amid growing US concern about China’s growing military and economic influence in that region.
For several years, the United States has sought to strengthen relations with Vietnam, which distrusts Washington’s approaches, seeking not to affect trade ties with China and Russia, rivals of the United States.
The visit to Vietnam was announced after Biden received, at the beginning of this month, the leaders of Japan and South Korea for an unprecedented trilateral summit in the presidential retreat at Camp David, near Washington, to consolidate a new economic and of security.
Biden has sought to bring historical rivals South Korea and Japan closer through their common concerns about Chinese ambitions in the Pacific and North Korea’s nuclear program.
Source: TSF
