US-Vietnam ties ‘have limited impact on China’ as Biden is heading to Hanoi

The US and Vietnam are eyeing developing ties to a higher level, as Washington puts more efforts into using or forcing China’s neighbors to join the US-launched Indo-Pacific strategy and major power competition that aim to contain China’s development.

Analysts said Vietnam, in order to boost its own development, wants to benefit from the US strategy, but that it will not be used by the US to contain China. The Southeast Asian and socialist country enjoys a high level of mutual trust and deep cooperation with China, while there will be limits on closer US-Vietnam due to complicated ideological and historical reasons.

Source: Global Times