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Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) shaking hands with his Vietnamese counterpart To Lam in Hanoi, Vietnam, on April 14.
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When Chinese President Xi Jinping made his South-east Asian tour’s first stop in Vietnam this week, high on the agenda was a proposed rail cooperation project for additional links
His Vietnamese counterpart To Lam had described the plan for enhanced rail connections as the “highest priority” in his country’s strategic infrastructure cooperation with China.

