Vietnamese leader To Lam arrives in China for first foreign trip
VIETNAM’S new leader To Lam arrived in Beijing today, making a summit with China’s Xi Jinping his first foreign trip.
En route, Lam stopped off in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou to follow in the “red footsteps” of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, who founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League there in 1925. He said he wished to revive “the friendly exchanges of the older generation of leaders of Vietnam and China.”
Discussions will include a project to link Vietnam’s capital Hanoi with China through a high-speed rail track.
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