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Vietnam’s Strategic Partnership with Canada Faces Two Tests

Does the partnership promote reciprocity, or one-way diversification?

Sep 28, 2026
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By: Khanh Vu Duc
Vietnamese President To Lam at a private talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney. Photo from VNA

Vietnam’s new Strategic Partnership with Canada is ambitious. The Joint Statement issued on September 24 covers everything from trade, digital technologies and energy to defence, security, justice and people-to-people ties.

The breadth i…

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