US President Biden agreed to “promote and deepen development” over the phone with the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam at the Democracy Summit.
The White House said in a statement that President Biden said in a phone call with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam on the 29th that he strengthened the United States' commitment to a strong, prosperous, resilient and independent Vietnam, addressing regional challenges, and promoting a free and prosperous country. They said they would work together to ensure an open Indo-Pacific.
Nhan Dan, a Vietnamese state-run media outlet, reported that General Secretary Trong told President Biden, “Vietnam continues to pursue a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation, diversification and multilateralization of relationships, and active and active global integration. He said in a phone call that he had agreed to "promote, develop and deepen" bilateral relations.
Reuters reported that “the call, in which Biden had an unusual conversation with a foreign leader who is not a head of state or a head of government, was made while the US president was hosting a second summit for democracy.”
Vietnam's Nang Dang newspaper said that "the two leaders will discuss details to further promote relations by assigning relevant authorities from both sides," Reuters reported.
Reuters said, “Trong and Biden, the most powerful figures in Vietnam, repeated invitations to visit each other’s countries.” “Biden also emphasized the centrality of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the US commitment to respecting human rights and working together on climate goals,” he said.
“Experts believe that the US push to upgrade relations with Vietnam this year is facing resistance in Hanoi for fears that China might view the move as hostile at a time of tension between the two superpowers,” Reuters reported. has been careful not to alienate its huge neighbor China, and the United States has been a stumbling block in relations as Washington criticizes the government for its frequent imprisonment and harassment of dissenting voices in Vietnam's human rights record."
Vietnam's General Secretary Trung is the first foreign leader to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing shortly after Chinese President Xi Jinping broke precedent and secured his third term as General Secretary of the Communist Party.
The United States and Vietnam have become Vietnam's largest export market after a long war of enemies, and this year marks the 10th anniversary of the "comprehensive partnership" signed by the Democratic Party of the United States, President Obama, and Tonghwa Day marks the anniversary.
US President Joe Biden held the 2nd Democracy Summit on the 29th and announced “spending $690 million to strengthen democracy in the world.”
The first meeting was held in December 2021 under the theme of "Preventing the expansion of influence of dictatorships, responding to technology and digital realms, and preventing corruption." It was invited and co-hosted by the United States, South Korea, Costa Rica, the Netherlands, and Zambia. President Biden said in the idea of the Democracy Summit, “We are at a critical moment when we need to show that the United States and like-minded democratic allies can outperform dictatorships.” said.
President Yoon Seok-yeol has repeatedly emphasized the solidarity of liberal democracy based on the universal value of “freedom and the rule of law.”
In a joint statement at the opening ceremony of the Democracy Summit, President Biden and President Yoon Seok-yeol said, "It is a fundamental duty of our time to strengthen transparent and responsible governance rooted in the consent of the governed."
In his welcome speech at the Indo-Pacific Regional Meeting of the 2nd Democracy Summit on the 30th, President Yoon said, “The countries that participated in the Democracy Summit have one thing in common. “Corruption is the distortion of the community’s decision-making system. Corruption threatens democracy and suppresses freedom,” he said.
The Vietnam People's Army (VPA) conducted a joint training with the Indian Army, 'VINBAX 2022', in Chandi Mandir, India for three weeks in May last year, and the second joint training is scheduled to be held in Vietnam this year.
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