There are now two of them, one Vietnam and one India, both of whom are aiming to support their rise to confront China or even replace China. As for India, not to mention its strength, its ambitions are indeed not small, and it wants to take the "fast train" of the United States to develop well, which we all know. But Vietnam is different, one is the United States, the other is China, Vietnam is quite a bit of a sense that it doesn't want to offend anyone, and it doesn't want to give up, and on the one hand, it is "good brothers" with us, and at the same time it is eye-to-eyeing with Biden.
However, in the past two days, there have been some fundamental changes in this situation, the "balancing act", Vietnam has stopped playing, and has turned directly to China, so that Sino-Vietnamese relations can reach a "new height".Let's talk about this topic today.
A few days ago, at the kind invitation of the Vietnamese leader, the Chinese leader left for Vietnam for a state visit. This is not only a high-level interaction between China and Vietnam after the escalation of relations between the United States and Vietnam and Japan-Vietnam, but also the second state visit to Vietnam by a Chinese leader after a lapse of six years. At this critical juncture, what China and Vietnam should talk about and how China-Vietnam relations will go has obviously become something that the two societies, especially the United States and its allies, are watching.
We know that it was in September this year that Biden made a high-profile announcement that US-Vietnam relations had been elevated to the same level as China-Vietnam relations. In other words, the United States is on an equal footing with China, so let's be careful. At that time, we said that we only need to stabilize the strategic contempt and tactical attention to this baseline, figure out Biden's careful thinking, and do what we should do, and the rest is to fully believe in our great power diplomacy.
However, at that time, many people were not optimistic about Vietnam's posture of "betting on both ends" and even its intention to "vote for the United States", saying that China should be careful of Vietnam and be careful of this "sugar-coated cannonball" trick. Vietnam has also expressed its uneasiness about our uneasiness, repeatedly emphasizing that it regards its relations with China as the top priority.
Even so, it was not enough. Not long ago, when Wang Yi, the Chinese governor, went to Vietnam to preside over an important meeting to pave the way for the Sino-Vietnamese leaders' talks, he made his words clear, saying that China also regards relations with Vietnam as a priority direction of its neighborhood diplomacy, and the upgrading of China-Vietnam relations should be a matter of course. Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, the diplomacy of the Chinese head of state followed closely behind, laying the final blow for the upgrading of the positioning of China-Vietnam relations.
In fact, the two countries themselves know best what the relationship between the two countries is. The United States always wants to use Vietnam's hand to suppress China, or to use the elevation of US-Vietnam relations to drive a wedge into Sino-Vietnamese relations, and hype up the "diplomatic victory" of the United States and China's "diplomatic failure." This is obviously an illusion that cannot be more wrong. According to the logic of the Americans, with the South China Sea dispute, with them and the benefits given by Japan, Vietnam and China cannot get along as "brothers."
However, facts have repeatedly shown that the development of Sino-Vietnamese relations will not only not be interfered with by the United States and other foreign forces, but will not be at all as high as they can imagine. The United States has played some petty tricks and said in vain that it is on an equal footing with China in front of Vietnam.
In fact, the answer to why Vietnam finally "bet" on China is simple. As the Vietnamese side has stated on many occasions, China and Vietnam are not only "comrades" and "brothers" in their relationship, but also have real advantages. Take this year as an example, there is a set of data that is very eye-catching, that is, the bilateral amount between China and Vietnam has exceeded 200 billion US dollars for two consecutive years. Such achievements not only show that China and Vietnam have a high degree of economic ties and strong complementarity, but also show that the relations between China and Vietnam are close. If someone is confused about the unique relationship between China and Vietnam, it is really beyond their means.
In the same way, the Chinese leader's state visit to Vietnam is not only to show the special nature of Sino-Vietnamese relations, but also to make the Americans look better and avoid using the same old tricks in front of China. In the diplomacy of major powers, if you want to compete with China, even the United States must see your opponent clearly and weigh it again. List of high-quality authors