Xi bids farewell to Vietnam's To Lam

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Xi bids farewell to Vietnam's To Lam

2025-04-15 18:35 Last Updated At：23:47

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Chinese president, bid farewell to To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee on Tuesday morning before concluding his state visit to the southeast Asian country.

Although the visit was brief, Xi said, it was rich in activities and fruitful in outcomes.

The two sides reaffirmed their shared political will to advance the global socialist cause, expressed their common aspiration to comprehensively promote bilateral strategic cooperation to achieve the six goals, namely stronger political mutual trust, more substantial security cooperation, deeper practical cooperation, more solid public support for bilateral relations, closer coordination and collaboration on multilateral issues and better management with solutions to differences.

Both countries also voiced their readiness to jointly respond to external risks and challenges, safeguard regional peace and stability, and uphold international fairness and justice.

Xi said he is full of confidence in the development prospects of China-Vietnam relations, urging joint efforts to fully implement the outcomes of the visit and continue advancing the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future.

To Lam said Xi's visit was fruitful, with the two sides having in-depth exchanges on mutually concerned issues of overall and strategic significance and reaching a series of important consensuses.

The visit has significantly advanced strategic cooperation between the two parties and the two countries, strengthened Vietnam's confidence in overcoming risks and challenges, and elevated the friendship between the two peoples to a new height, said To Lam.

Vietnam will actively implement the outcomes of the visit, promote continuous development of relations between the two parties and the two countries, and create a future of shared prosperity for both nations, he said.

Xi wrapped up his visit to Vietnam on Tuesday afternoon.

US cannot legitimize operation against Venezuela: Chinese scholar

The United States cannot legitimize an operation that attacked Venezuela and captured its president, a Chinese scholar said Sunday.

On Saturday, the United States launched a large-scale strike on Venezuela, during which Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife were 'captured and flown out of Venezuela' according to a post by U.S. President Donald Trump on his Truth Social account.

Teng Jianqun, director of the Center for Diplomatic Studies at Hunan Normal University, said in an interview with China Global Television Network (CGTN) that the aim of this operation is to take full control of Venezuela’s natural resources.

"I don't think the United States can legitimize this operation to take custody of the president of Venezuela. And also I don't think the United States can legitimize its any action in taking the oil reserves of that country. This is actually a very dangerous game played by the Trump administration. And of course, the United States would like to take full control of that country and to take full control of the natural resources, especially the large reserve of oil in Venezuela," said Teng.

Teng said Venezuela is not an isolated case but a common practice by the United States. The United States launched an invasion of Panama on Dec. 20, 1989, which continued until January 1990, with the stated objective of capturing Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega on charges of drug trafficking and organized crime.

"We still remember the so-called sentence of the former president of Panama in the late 1980s. And this time, the president of Venezuela will be under some judicial condition (judicial proceedings) for the so-called drug trafficking and some other crimes. So I think this is not a single case for the Venezuela country, but also this is actually a practice by the United States -- to use force, to use so-called justice under law against any leaders in Latin America and the Caribbean waters," he said.