VIETNAM-CHINA China's vice premier Zhang visits Vietnam

Record ID: 146907

  • Title: VIETNAM-CHINA China's vice premier Zhang visits Vietnam
  • Date: 16th July 2015
  • Summary: HANOI, VIETNAM (16 JULY, 2015) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** CHINESE VICE PREMIERE ZHANG GAOLI WALKS IN / SHAKES HANDS WITH VIETNAMESE PRIME MINISTER NGUYEN TAN DUNG ZHANG AND DUNG SHAKING HANDS DELEGATES IN MEETING ROOM VARIOUS OF DUNG SPEAKING ZHANG LISTENING VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS ZHANG LISTENING MEETING IN PROGRESS VARIOUS OF ZHANG SPEAKING DUNG LI
  • Embargoed: 31st July 2015 13:00
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  • Location: Vietnam
  • Country: Vietnam
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA7GNHADIRF2OCE9CD3KN90CKN3
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli held talks with top Vietnamese leaders during a visit on Thursday (July 16) that comes hot on the heels of a landmark United States trip by Vietnam's communist party chief.
    The two-day visit by Zhang, a member of the elite Politburo Standing Committee, was announced only on Monday and comes as relations between the neighbours, that share $60 billion of annual trade seek to shore-up ties, were strained last year by a heated dispute over maritime sovereignty.
    Zhang met Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and is due to make courtesy calls on the country's president and its communist party chief on Friday (July 17).
    Zhang joined Phuc after the bilateral meeting to witness the signing of a memorandum for cooperation in culture between the two countries.
    His visit quickly follows almost a week of meetings in the United States by a political and business delegation from Vietnam, led by Communist Party chief, Nguyen Phu Trong, which received large-scale coverage in Vietnam's state media, as the two countries mark 20 years since normalising ties.
    Trong met President Barack Obama last week at the Oval Office, the latest amid a flurry of diplomacy by Washington that began during last year's breakdown in Sino-Vietnamese ties.
    The United States has intensified its efforts to engage a former war enemy that has long shared close but testy ties with China, thrusting Vietnam into what experts see as a broader tug-of-war between Beijing and Washington for regional influence.
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