Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc aims to maintain its trading ties with the United States under the new administration while Vietnam likes to maintain U.S. being their leading partner. The prime minister’s next visit would strengthen ties between the two countries with Vietnam being the top potential beneficiary of the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, known that Trump is against the continuation of this trade deal. Their last official state meeting was in 2008 as he strengthened the security measure in problems regarding territorial claims with their neighboring country China. Their latest meetup was when both leaders attended the U.S.-ASEAN summit in February last year.
