Vietnam to welcome US President Biden on state visit

(10 Sep 2023)
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Hanoi - 9 September 2023
1. Various of t-shirt with portrait of US President Joe Biden hanging outside shop
2. Various of business owner Truong Thanh Duc printing t-shirts
3. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Truong Thanh Duc, business owner:
“Joe Biden’s visit to Vietnam will bring great prospects in cooperation in maritime security and trade, which will create more jobs for the people here.”

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ARCHIVE: Off Paracel Islands, South China Sea - 13 May 2014
4. Chinese coast guard vessel ramming a Vietnamese coast guard vessel

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ARCHIVE: Danang, Vietnam - 5 March 2018
5. Wide of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in Danang bay
6. Various of carrier, Vietnamese and American flags being flown

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Hanoi, Vietnam - 9 September 2023
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Nguyen Khac Giang, political analyst, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute:
“Having a new comprehensive strategic partner with the U.S. could mean that Vietnam can send a strong signal to China that they are actually not alone. And they can have a trustworthy partner to counter China's aggression on the South China Sea. In the long term, having a new partner with the U.S. could mean that Vietnam can become a very important link in the U.S.’s de-risking and Friendshoring strategy. That puts in the context that Vietnam wants to improve its economic development from a labor intensive economy to a more high value added economy with more green investment and more high-tech investment.”

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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam - 2 September 2023
8. Various of containers being loaded onto ship

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Hanoi, Vietnam- 9 September 2023
9. Various of traffic
10. Various of pedestrians
11. Vietnamese and Communist flags
12. SOUNDBITE (Vietnamese) Do Tuan Thanh, tech worker:
“I hope that the visit by the U.S. President will strengthen the relations between Vietnam and the U.S. That would bring more business opportunities to Vietnam, especially from big U.S. tech companies.”
13. Various of U.S. and Vietnamese flags

STORYLINE:
When U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Sunday afternoon, an agreement to elevate the bilateral ties to top level is expected to be made.

Biden will head to Hanoi after attending the G20 summit in India for a two-day state visit at the invitation of the Vietnamese Communist chief.

The U.S. for years has sought to strengthen relations with Vietnam, which has cautiously approached entreaties by Washington.

During the visit, the two countries are looking to upgrade a comprehensive partnership to a strategic one, bringing the U.S. to the same level of diplomatic cooperation with Vietnam’s other partners including Russia and China.

Vietnam, despite having robust trade relations with China, has been in a tense territorial standoff for decades with its neighbour in the South China.

China claims the entirety of the oil-rich and important maritime waterways that are hundreds of miles from the Chinese coastline.

“Vietnam can send a strong signal to China that they are actually not alone. And they can have a trustworthy partner to counter China's aggression on the South China Sea,” said Nguyen Khac Giang, a Vietnamese politics scholar and fellow at the ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute.

Diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Vietnam were only restored in 1995.
The U.S. is now Vietnam’s second biggest trading partner, after China.
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