BANGKOK – Vietnam has long maintained an arm’s length from China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), even as Chinese companies blazed a trail of new highways and railways in South-east Asia over the past decade.
Before this week, Hanoi had also been reluctant to get behind Chinese President Xi Jinping’s vision of building a “community with a shared future”.
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