Vietnamese top leader’s visit to lift ties with China to new height: scholar

China’s Centre for World Affairs Studies researcher Ling Dequan writes in the funeral guest book at the Embassy of Việt Nam in China’s memorial service for the late Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng. — VNA/VNS Photo Thành Dương

BEIJING — Through the upcoming China visit by Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President Tô Lâm, the two countries will work more closely on a new journey to build a community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, said Ling Dequan, a researcher at China’s Centre for World Affairs Studies.

The visit is also expected to actively lift the relations between the two Parties and countries to a new height, he added.

Speaking to the Vietnam News Agency in Beijing on the threshold of the visit, Ling, an expert on Vietnamese issues and former head of Xinhua News Agency’s bureau in Hà Nội, noted that China is the first foreign destination that the Vietnamese top leader visits since he was elected as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV).

This fully demonstrates that the leader and the CPV Central Committee will inherit late Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng’s political legacy, attach great importance to continuing to uphold the revolutionary friendship between the two countries and reinforcing the traditional solidarity and friendly cooperation between the two Parties and countries, he said.

According to the scholar, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Chinese President Xi Jinping, and other Party and State leaders of China, will host the Vietnamese top leader to discuss the plan to enhance mutual political trust and further deepen the comprehensive cooperation between the two Parties and countries in the new situation.

The comprehensive, complementary, and win-win cooperation between China and Việt Nam, the two neighbours ‘linked by mountains and rivers’ with high cooperation potential across all fields, will help effectively promote the cause of socialist building and modernisation in each country.

This not only conforms to the profound aspiration of the people of the two countries but also brings practical benefits to them, Ling underscored.

The researcher said that currently, the two countries are striving to realise the outcomes of the historic visit by General Secretary and President Xi Jinping to Việt Nam last year.

The building of the China-Việt Nam Community with a shared future that carries strategic significance has seen a good start.

The visit by the Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President, an old friend and a good comrade of China, to China has drawn great attention and received positive evaluation from the people of the two countries, as well as public opinion from the regional and international community, he added.

Ling said he believes that meetings between the two Party and State leaders of Việt Nam and China will produce new important results and lead to new steady steps forward, further deepening the building of the community with a shared future with strategic significance.

The two countries are walking together on the path of socialist modernisation with their exclusive characteristics and will actively contribute to peace, stability, development and prosperity of the region and the world at large, the expert underlined. — VNS