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From a Trump golf course to a $10.9b Chinese railway, Vietnam finds a way through US-China tensions
The South-east Asian nation was one of the biggest beneficiaries of the first Trump administration’s trade war with China. But with the return of global economic uncertainty, Hanoi is now reaching deep into its diplomatic toolkit to ensure its momentum doesn’t fade.
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Vietnam has been among the most proactive countries in the world in engaging the Trump administration over tariffs.
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HUNG YEN, Vietnam – There is a flurry of activity not quite seen before in this nondescript, hardscrabble village tucked inland along Vietnam’s winding Red River, its inhabitants descending from a long line of pomelo and longan growers.
Fish are being dredged out of breeding ponds. A tractor is busy clearing clay being stored on a plot of land belonging to the owner of the local brickworks.
