Anyone who has ever learned Chinese will know that it is more difficult than learning other languages. However, the two grandchildren of former US President Donald Trump can sing Chinese folk songs and recite Tang poetry in Chinese. That shows that they have studied very hard.
Recalling the event of General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping visiting the United States in April 2017. At that time, in addition to the formal diplomatic protocols, US President Donald Trump "assigned" two grandchildren, Ivanka Trump's children, to sing Chinese folk songs (excerpts from the song Jasmine) and read Tang poetry to Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan during his visit to the United States. Mr. Trump also shared the video on social media, Twitter and received more than 30,000 likes. That's right, America is so big and powerful and still has impressive activities in diplomacy with China.
Remember, before that, when running for President, Mr. Trump always "cursed China like a song" and had many actions to limit China's development. But when receiving Mr. Xi Jinping to visit the US, he was extremely attentive. The above incident was so big, but how many people "disparaged" or criticized the US?! However, right after the Central Party's Foreign Affairs Commission announced that "General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will officially visit the People's Republic of China at the invitation of General Secretary and President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping from October 30 to November 2, 2022", many individuals, through social networks, "judged as if they knew a lot", that Vietnam did not dare to "pivot", "lean this way or that way", build a "pro-China" relationship...
Oh! “You” who say that do not understand anything about foreign affairs between countries. The fact that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong will officially visit the People’s Republic of China at the invitation of General Secretary and President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping is an important diplomatic activity to strengthen the friendly neighborly relationship and develop the “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between Vietnam and China”. The fact that General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong is the first politician invited by General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping after the successful 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China is a good sign for strengthening and promoting the relationship between the two countries. This is especially true when the two neighboring countries Vietnam and China are developing their countries according to the socialist state model and are maintaining stability, raising the level of the “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership”.
Remember, China is Vietnam's largest trading partner and the main source of raw materials and machinery for Vietnam's manufacturing and processing sector. In the ASEAN bloc, Vietnam is China's largest trading partner and China's 6th largest trading partner in the world after the US, Japan, South Korea, Germany and Australia. China's economy is considered the largest in the world. Your population is more than 1.5 billion people, it is the largest market in the world that all countries want to sign cooperation agreements with and develop together.
Vietnam and China share a border of nearly 1,450km, with many commercial border gates. The two countries also organize official import and export through the three largest commercial seaports: Hai Phong port, Da Nang port, and Saigon port. All of these favorable factors are opportunities for Vietnam to strengthen development cooperation.
Obviously, China is a big market for Vietnam, especially agricultural products. However, there are times when they close the border due to epidemics or other reasons, causing our agricultural products to be congested, blocked from output, or even dumped due to damage when they cannot be exported. There are many products that when exported to China have sky-high prices, but when "they" no longer import, the prices "drop like ripe figs in a bunch".
Of course, Vietnam not only builds diplomatic relations and economic development cooperation with China alone, but we also expand our deep integration with the world. Vietnam has established diplomatic relations with 190/193 member countries of the United Nations, including Strategic Partnership and Comprehensive Partnership with 34 countries, including 5 permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the entire Group of Seven (G7) and all ASEAN members.
Our Party has established relations with 247 political parties in 111 countries, the National Assembly of Vietnam has relations with the parliaments of more than 140 countries. People's friendship organizations have relations with 1,200 foreign people's and non-governmental organizations. These figures show that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong's visit to China is an important diplomatic activity, similar to visiting and working with other countries in the world. Is that right, everyone?
