September 11, 2023

As the US raised its ties with Vietnam to the level of comprehensive strategic partnership, President Joe Biden continued to hide his attempt to use the relationship to "de-risk" from potential situations that might occur in the future when the US loses control over its tensions with China, and experts said on Monday that this act of "self-exposure" just makes the real intention behind Washington's developing ties with Hanoi more obvious.

Chinese analysts also said China is being calm over the development of Vietnam-US ties, as China has confidence and mutual trust in its friendly socialist neighbor. The nature of China-Vietnam ties is driven by the relationship between the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), and the US, which is hostile toward socialism, will never make its "comprehensive strategic partnership" with Vietnam reach the level of China-Vietnam relations. 

When responding to a question about China's comment on US-Vietnam ties, Mao Ning, a spokesperson of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said at a daily routine press conference on Monday that "we have noticed that Vietnam has repeatedly stressed that developing long-term, stable and sound Vietnam-China relations has always been the top priority of Vietnam's diplomacy, as well as the top priority for Vietnam's external exchanges."

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