President Joe Biden is heading to Vietnam as the US seeks to make deeper inroads in the region, aiming to offer nations an alternative superpower to China.
Biden is scheduled to meet with General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the leader of the country’s ruling Communist Party. Relations between the two countries have grown warmer in recent years, but the US has remain categorized as one of their least-prioritized relationships.
Vietnam was the eighth-largest trade partner for the US in 2022, according to the American Embassy in Vietnam, with $139 billion in turnover. US investment has boomed in Vietnam’s open-market economy over the last three decades.
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