Hanoi has had to tread carefully during a fraught period of transition in Washington.
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December 10, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump and Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang pose for photos in Hanoi on November 11, 2017.
Credit: Flickr/The White House
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On November 30, Vietnamese leaders officially sent a note of congratulations to Joe Biden for becoming U.S. president-elect, nearly a month after his tense electoral tussle with incumbent President Donald Trump. In a carefully calculated diplomatic move, Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc together expressed their belief that relations would continue to improve once the Biden administration takes office.