Lê Hoài Trung, Politburo member, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Special Envoy of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee Tô Lâm, held talks with Wang Yi, Politburo member, Director of the Office of the Commission for Foreign Affairs of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, in Beijing on Tuesday.
Trung briefed Wang on the key outcomes and success of the 14th National Congress of the CPV, highlighting its new theoretical and practical insights. He reaffirmed the CPV’s resolve to follow the Congress’s guidelines, overarching goals, key tasks, and strategic breakthroughs, with the aim of achieving fast and sustainable development and building Việt Nam into a developed country with a socialist orientation.
He shared new viewpoints and mindset in the 14th Party Congress’s foreign policy, notably the addition of “self-strengthening” to the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, self-strengthening, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, and multilateralisation and diversification of external ties. For the first time, diplomacy and international integration have been identified as a “key and regular” task on par with national defence and security safeguarding.
