By Yankuba Jallow, culled from CGTN China will advance high-quality comprehensive strategic cooperation with Vietnam, and accelerate the building of a higher-level China-Vietnam community with a shared future that carries strategic significance, General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday.
Xi made the remarks when holding talks with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and Vietnamese President To Lam, who is on a state visit to China.
This marks the first foreign trip Lam has made since being elected to a full term as president of Vietnam earlier this month.
The trip also comes a year after Xi’s historic visit to the Southeast Asian country.
“Your visit to China at the earliest opportunity after being elected president of Vietnam demonstrates the great importance you have attached to the development of China-Vietnam relations,” Xi said, adding that China has always regarded Vietnam as a priority in its neighborhood diplomacy.
Xi expressed confidence that under the strong leadership of the CPV Central Committee headed by To Lam, Vietnam will firmly follow the path of socialism and strive toward its two centennial goals.
He said the leadership of the communist party is the most essential feature and the greatest strength of socialism, and defending the socialist system and the ruling position of the communist party is the greatest common strategic interest of the CPC and the CPV.
Xi said the two sides must maintain a high degree of strategic vigilance and strong strategic resolve, always remain confident in their path and system, and ensure that all reform will not change the direction of the path or the nature of the system.....
