Foreign Minister Penny Wong has signalled a strengthening of security ties with Vietnam just days after Hanoi condemned a Chinese military exercise in the South China Sea | ChrisBarrett_
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has signalled a strengthening of security ties with Vietnam just days after Hanoi condemned a Chinese military exercise in the South China Sea as a serious breach of its sovereignty.
“Our two countries share an interest in a region that is peaceful, prosperous, that is stable, in which sovereignty is respected,” Wong said. One of multiple claimant states to territory in the strategically key waterway, Vietnam last week reacted angrily to news of a Chinese military drill on June 19 in the Paracel Islands, which it regards as its own and calls the Hoang Sa archipelago.
Wong has been busy in the region since Labor’s election, having also travelled to Indonesia with Anthony Albanese last month.“The partnership between our countries is grounded in trust,” Wong said in Hanoi on Monday. Vietnam is further establishing itself as a global manufacturing hub and trade with Australia is on the up. Over the first five months of this year, trade between the countries hit a record $9 billion, up 32 per cent on the same period in 2021, Vietnamese consul general Nguyen Dang Thang told a meeting of the Australia-Vietnam Business Council in Sydney last Thursday. He said two-way investment exceeded $3.5 billion, with 75 per cent of it Australian money in Vietnam.
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