Joe Biden visits Vietnam to sign a strategic partnership between the two countries looking at China

2023-09-10 18:00:57

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Updated Sunday, September 10, 2023 – 18:00

Washington and Hanoi sign to achieve the highest status in their bilateral relations in an attempt by the US to counter Chinese influence in the region

Joe Biden, this Saturday with the general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party, Nguyen Phu Trong, in Hanoi.Luong Thai LinhAPGeopolitics The sacred fire that China and the US are fighting for Asia China confirms that Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 summit

After taking the lead in the meetings of the G-20 about prioritizing aid to developing countries, those of the so-called Global South, the American president, Joe Biden, finished the summit on Sunday and quickly took a plane to Vietnam. A brief stop before returning home that is key to counteracting China’s influence in the region.

The most important announcement after the landing of Biden in Hanoi It has been an agreement in which the Southeast Asian country has elevated the relationship with the United States to a “comprehensive strategic partnership.”

It is a symbolic designation, but with great geopolitical weight. Now, both countries share the highest status in terms of bilateral relations, equaling the level that authoritarian regimes such as China and Russia.

Vietnam also operates as a one-party regime, but is interested in rapprochement with its former enemy, Washingtondue to the many problems it has with neighboring China regarding claims in the disputed waters they share.

This new alliance comes almost half a century after the end of the Vietnam war. After the victory of the Communist Party in 1975, the United States imposed a trade embargo that remained until 1994.

“Vietnam is a critical power in the world and a benchmark in this vital region,” Biden said as soon as he landed in Hanoi, where he was received by the Vietnamese leader, Nguyen Phu Tronggeneral secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Biden skipped the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Jakarta, held just before the G-20 meeting, to go to Vietnam in an attempt to show the importance that the world’s leading power attaches to their relationship. with a country that, like its rival China, also does not pass the basic human rights standards that Washington defends.