Vietnam and France have officially upgraded their relations to a "comprehensive strategic partnership", Vietnam's highest level, during a visit by Vietnamese President To Lam to Paris. The move underlined Vietnam's increasingly strategic role as an important link in global supply chains and is the latest success for its flexible foreign policy known as "bamboo diplomacy".

Vietnam and France have upgraded their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership, and the two countries also plan to strengthen economic ties.

Vietnam and France agreed to upgrade diplomatic relations between the two countries to a comprehensive strategic partnership, the Southeast Asian country’s highest level. Most Read from BloombergUrban Heat Stress Is Another Disparity in the World’s Most Unequal NationSingapore Ends 181 Years of Horse Racing to Make Way for HomesFrom Cleveland to Chicago,

France has become the eighth nation, and the fifth in the past two years, to rise to the top of Hanoi’s diplomatic hierarchy.

Vietnam's Party General Secretary and President To Lam and French President Emmanuel Macron announced the upgrade of Vietnam-France relations to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, making France the first country in the European Union (EU) to establish this partnership with Vietnam.

Vietnam and France have announced the upgrade of their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership, the highest tier of the former’s diplomatic hierarchy.