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India Enhances Its Ties with Vietnam

Oct 30, 2014 | 09:15 GMT

India Enhances Its Ties with Vietnam
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) walks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Oct. 28.

(PRAKASH SINGH/AFP/Getty Images)

Summary

India and Vietnam signed several deals to strengthen economic and defense ties Oct. 28 during Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's two-day visit. Closer cooperation between New Delhi and Hanoi could cause concern for Beijing; India has been gaining influence in the South China Sea to counter China's growing presence in the Indian Ocean, and Vietnam has been looking for help in its increasingly acrimonious territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea. However, India and Vietnam have other economic, political and military reasons to seek a closer relationship.

New deals between Hanoi and New Delhi have other practical reasons besides countering China....

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