Why Putin, Xi and Biden have all visited Vietnam within the past 12 months | ABC News

Vladimir Putin has touched down in Hanoi to meet with Vietnamese leaders in his third overseas visit since May after meeting Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un. The Russian president is the third leader of a permanent UN Security Council member nation to visit the ASEAN country after Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, as Vietnam maintains a policy of diversifying its relations. UNSW emeritus professor Carl Thayer says Vietnam manages to avoid being solely reliant on one superpower by asserting its ‘strategic autonomy’.

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