HANOI: (Reuters): Vietnam's president, Vo Van Thuong (pic), will visit Japan next week, a Vietnamese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Thursday (Nov 23), as the two countries discuss strengthening their relations.
Closer ties would confirm Vietnam's increasingly strategic role as an important link in global supply chains amid trade tension between China and the West, which is helping to bring foreign investment to the southeast Asian country as some companies relocate operations from China.
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