Hanoi, 23 June 2023 (TDI): US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken meets with Vietnam Chairman of External Relations Le Hoai Trung.
The discussion contains elements of strengthening the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership, which has played an essential role in promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific for over ten years.
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US-Vietnam Relations
Twenty-seven years after the establishment of relations in 1995, Washington and Hanoi remain reliable partners with an alliance founded on respect and confidence. Washington-Hanoi relations have become more productive and thorough, culminating in a robust partnership covering economic, political, protection, and interpersonal relationships.
America supports a strong, flourishing, and autonomous Vietnam that contributes to worldwide security, engages in beneficial commercial interactions, protects individual rights and adheres to the standards of law, and stands strong in the face of climate change and energy-related concerns.
Interactions are guided by the 2013 U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership, a general framework for enhancing the bilateral relationship.
The Comprehensive Partnership
The Comprehensive Collaboration reiterates the US’s strong commitment to the Asia-Pacific region and sets a structure for collaboration in fields such as governance and diplomatic connections, commercial and financial interactions, security and protection, scientific along with technological training and schooling, environment, and well-being, humanitarian aid/disaster mitigation and war legacy problems protection of human rights and promotion, connections to people, and culture, athletics, and tourism.
The United States promotes law enforcement capacity strengthening in the southeast Asian country, territorial interoperability, and the execution of international treaties and norms.
Bilateral commerce and US investment in the Southeast Asian country have risen quickly since the entry into the effect of the America-Vietnam economic accord in 2001.
America and Vietnam have inked an investment and trade framework agreement and fabric, aviation, immigration, and naval accords.
Machinery, computers and technology, yarn/fabric, crops, and cars are among the US exports to Vietnam.
