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Vietnam’s top leader to visit China next week: media
August 13, 2024
Article Body Text<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Communist Party of Vietnam General Secretary To Lam will visit China next week, his first foreign trip since being appointed to the top job this month, Reuters reported.</span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lam will arrive on Aug. 18, and plans to meet President Xi Jinping and other senior officials over the following two days, the news agency said, citing two unidentified Vietnamese officials and a Hanoi-based diplomat familiar with the matter.</span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Radio Free Asia’s call to Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs went unanswered. </span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On Aug. 3, Vietnam’s Communist Party Central Committee voted unanimously to elect Lam general secretary, replacing </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nguyen Phu Trong, who died two weeks earlier.</span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lam, 67, was named president in May after serving as Vietnam’s public security minister and he currently holds both positions.</span></p> <hr/> <p><b>RELATED STORIES</b></p> <p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/to-lam-general-secretary-analysts-08122024152302.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Analysts: Vietnam’s new leader promises reform, but it won’t be easy</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/vietnam-politics-to-lam-nguyen-phu-trong-08062024080814.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">No pause in Vietnam elite political jockeying for Nguyen Phu Trong’s funeral</span></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/to-lam-general-secretary-08042024005125.html"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To Lam elected as Vietnam’s top leader</span></a></p> <hr/> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As president, he has visited Laos and Cambodia and met Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Hanoi.</span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">China’s President Xi sent Lam a congratulatory message upon his appointment as general secretary, expressing his readiness to work together “in building a China-Vietnam community with a shared future, jointly carry forward traditional friendship, consolidate mutual political trust, deepen strategic communication, and promote practical cooperation.”</span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Xi added that this collaboration aims to bring more benefits to the two peoples and make positive contributions to the cause of peace and progress of mankind, as reported by China’s Xinhua News Agency.</span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">While the two sides have clashed over rival territorial claims in the South China Sea, Vietnam and China have a “comprehensive strategic partnership” considered the highest level of engagement.</span></p> <p></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Xi last visited Vietnam in December 2023, meeting with Nguyen Phu Trong, then-president Vo Van Thuong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.</span></p> <p></p> <p><b><i>Edited by Mike Firn and Taejun Kang.</i></b></p> <p></p>
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Embargo DateAugust 12, 2024 23:07 EDT
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