During this time, Vietnam is probably the busiest diplomatically, but again, they are also the most profitable. Not long ago, Biden personally visited Vietnam, and in the future, it is better to win over Vietnam, the United States proposed to help Vietnam develop the rare earth industry, and to build a new "chip manufacturing center" in Vietnam. In return, Vietnam has also upgraded its bilateral relations to a "comprehensive strategic partnership".
Subsequently, at the "Belt and Road" summit forum, Vietnamese President Vo Van Thanh met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and invited Putin to visit Vietnam, and Putin also readily agreed, and expressed the importance of Vietnam to Russia, it seems that the two talked very well.
In recent days, Vietnam's Minister of Planning and Investment has been in contact with representatives of Chinese companies to discuss Vietnam's North-South high-speed rail project. But we all know that Vietnam has always wanted to hand over this project to Japan, and they originally planned to build a new north-south high-speed railway from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City using China's Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway, and upgrade the existing line to a double-track freight line. But what I didn't expect was that Japan had certain problems in terms of technology and capital, so it was delayed again and again.
So now, Vietnam is facing an embarrassing situation, that is, Vietnam's north-south high-speed rail project is still out of plan, especially now, China is helping Indonesia to build a high-speed rail and open to traffic, the China-Laos railway has also been opened, Thailand's high-speed rail project is also speeding up, and Japan is assisting India to build high-speed rail. So Vietnam is getting more and more anxious, and at this time, China handed out an olive branch.
After all, Chinese enterprises participating in foreign infrastructure construction will indeed be greatly affected by political relations. As we all know, the political relations between China and Vietnam are not very good, and their positions are extremely unresolute, and they are easily provoked by the United States and Japan, so they would rather choose a lower standard of railway construction than cooperate with China.
However, for this cooperation, it may be possible for Chinese enterprises to participate in the bidding, and if the overall loss is seen, it is natural that they should withdraw. If the overall benefits outweigh the disadvantages, help the mainland maintain the development of the high-speed rail industry, and enhance the mainland's influence in strategic interests, and ultimately benefit, then it should be carried out.
Moreover, in fact, the prosperity of Southeast Asia is also very beneficial to China, but some people may also worry that if Vietnam surpasses us in power, will they turn against us?
Maybe it will, but know that this assumption is not valid, unless we have been standing still or even going backwards! Moreover, judging from Vietnam's previous strength and territory, they could not defeat China in terms of strength, so even if Vietnam developed well, it would reach the level of South Korea at most.
And on the other hand, if the United States can support developed countries such as South Korea and Japan, why can't we exchange and cooperate more than other developing countries? And we have to know that Southeast Asia is already our largest trading partner, since it is a partner, then it is "a prosperity, a loss", their development is good, the need for more goods, then our export trade will be more prosperous, you know, the market is more important than production. So they won't give up on China's huge consumer market.
And to participate in the construction of Vietnam's north-south high-speed railway, is also an important part of the mainland high-speed rail to go out, not long ago, our high-speed rail bullet train to achieve the ice-breaking journey of Europe, and this time will also be an important step for the mainland to promote high-speed rail standards in Southeast Asia, so in comparison, although there is a certain risk, but you can also try it!