Country: Vietnam

By Liz Lee China offered to boost ties with Vietnam on rail infrastructure, from loans and technology to training, as its neighbor's top leader, To Lam, wound up a visit on Friday that featured high-speed train journeys across the country's north ...

China's President Xi Jinping met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday as a string of leaders of countries affected by the Middle East war flocked to Beijing. Lavrov joins Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Abu Dhabi's Crown Prince Sheik Khaled ...

China’s President Xi Jinping led a series of high-profile meetings with global leaders in Beijing this week, as the global economy nervously eyes the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday called the blockade a "dangerous ...

By Greg Torode and Karen Lema China is employing ships and a barrier to tighten control of the entrance to the Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea amid roiling tension with the Philippines over the disputed feature, satellite imagery ...

In response to Iran’s partial closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the United States has begun implementing a counter-blockade—leveraging naval patrols, sanctions enforcement, and selective interdictions to constrain Iranian oil exports and raise the costs of Tehran’s strategy. Rather than restoring stability, however, this tit-for-tat dynamic is ...

By Francesco Guarascio Vietnam is increasingly edging closer to China's model of governance, tightening state control while embracing Chinese technology and regulation as its most powerful leader in decades heads to Beijing this week, according to internal documents, public ...

Vietnam confirmed on Thursday that top leader To Lam will visit China next week at the invitation of counterpart Xi Jinping, his first foreign trip since becoming president. The Communist Party boss was elected president -- the number two position in ...

Vietnam's top leader To Lam will visit China next week, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said on Thursday, as ties between the two nations continue to warm. Reuters first reported on the Vietnamese state president and party chief's planned visit to ...

By Phuong Nguyen and Francesco Guarascio Vietnam's top leader To Lam is planning a visit to China next week to meet his counterpart Xi Jinping, three people briefed on the plans told Reuters, in a trip that would closely follow his elevation to ...

By Khanh Vu, Phuong Nguyen, and Francesco Guarascio Vietnam's lawmakers unanimously elected Communist Party Secretary General To Lam as the country's state president for the next five years, a parliament official said after Tuesday's vote. ...