Vietnam Wants to Harness Its Diaspora in Australia and NZ to Boost Its Growth. It May Face Strong Opposition
Vietnam plans to treat its overseas communities as a strategic national resource while signing more than a dozen agreements on the trip, officials said.
- Vietnamese President and General Secretary To Lam is visiting Australia and New Zealand this week with a high-level delegation, marking the first official state visit by a Vietnamese Communist Party leader to both nations since 2009.
- The government formally adopted a resolution to engage the Vietnamese diaspora—including 350,000 people in Australia and 14,000 in New Zealand—as a "strategic national resource" to help reach high-income status by 2045.
- Officials expect to sign more than a dozen agreements across education, agriculture, and technology, building on recent two-way trade that hit $3.41bn in the year to March, a 72% increase over five years.
- Vietnam continues pursuing "strategic autonomy" to avoid over-reliance on any single country, as Lam balances deepening security ties with Australia and New Zealand against complex relationships with China and the United States.
- Despite these overtures, Lam faces an uphill battle overcoming longstanding distrust among diaspora members ideologically opposed to one-party rule, while critics continue to raise concerns regarding human rights and autocratic tendencies.
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Vietnam wants to harness its diaspora in Australia and NZ to boost its growth. It may face strong opposition
Vietnam’s top leader, Tô Lâm, is visiting Australia and New Zealand this week with a high-level delegation of ministers. He will be the first general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam – the highest political position in the country – to pay an official visit to both countries since 2009. More than a dozen agreements are expected to be signed across both countries in education, agriculture, health care, technology, tourism, defence and …
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