On December 12, our leader visited Hanoi at the invitation of the Vietnamese side. Judging from our publicity in the past two days, we also attach great importance to this interaction with Vietnam.
Another thing, in fact, on the same day of the meeting between the leaders of China and Vietnam, the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi also welcomed a distinguished guest, he was Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet.
The day before the Chinese leader's visit to Vietnam, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet was invited to visit Vietnam. After a meeting with the Vietnamese leadership, Hun Manet went to Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum to lay a wreath at the statue of Ho Chi Minh.
Hun Manet served as the new prime minister of Cambodia for just over 4 months, and his father was former Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, who actively developed relations with China during his tenure, visited China many times, and created a "China-Cambodia honeymoon period". As Hun Sen's eldest son, Hun Manet will basically continue Hun Sen's governing philosophy.
So let's look at such a configuration, it's interesting.
China and Cambodia are both neighbors of Vietnam, and at the same time China and Cambodia have close relations, and Vietnam has invited the leaders of China and Cambodia to meet at the same time.
So what does Vietnam get from its neighbors?There are two main points, one is economic cooperation, and the other is infrastructure cooperation.
Let's start with economic cooperation. In recent years, Vietnam's economic growth rate has been very bright in the world. Vietnam's economic development model is considered to be "crossing the river by feeling China".
In fact, Vietnam is also developing diversified models of economic cooperation, including Biden's visit to Vietnam in September this year to strengthen economic cooperation between the United States and Vietnam. I think many people shouted "wolf is coming" at that time, and thought that the United States helped Vietnam develop its manufacturing industry in order to steal China's jobs. As everyone knows, China wants to move towards industrial upgrading, but also needs to take the step of industrial transfer, at this time Vietnam can also be a good undertaking of China's relocation of industries, and China, as the largest manufacturing country, its economic complementarity with Vietnam is stronger than that between the United States and Vietnam. More importantly, the United States has selfish intentions and hopes that Vietnam will join the camp of "containing China", which will not be of substantial benefit to Vietnam, and China's cooperation is open and inclusive, and Vietnam naturally knows how to choose.
Then there is infrastructure cooperation. On the eve of the Chinese leader's visit to Vietnam, Xiong Bo, the Chinese ambassador to Vietnam, revealed a bombshell news: China is ready to provide help to Vietnam to upgrade the railway connecting China and Vietnam. In other words, Vietnam intends to get China to help build the railway.
You must know that before this, Vietnam has always hoped to cooperate with Japan and let Japan help build the railway, but the two sides have not reached an agreement on cooperation matters for many years.
An important factor in this is the opening of the China-Laos Railway. The modern railway built by China for Laos is exactly what Vietnam has dreamed of for many years. After the completion of the China-Laos Railway, China began to build a railway for Cambodia to connect the China-Laos with the Sino-Thai railway line.
Now that Vietnam wants to build a new railway, and has invited China and Cambodia to discuss the issue, the layout is clear. After all, Vietnam also knows that infrastructure, especially railway construction, is an important part of economic development, and when it comes to infrastructure, is there a more suitable partner than China?We can even speculate that a railway line built by China to connect the Indochina Peninsula and benefit many countries is already in the works.
It has to be said that this trilateral meeting between China, Vietnam, and Cambodia will open up a new pattern in Southeast Asia.