Vietnam and China: ideological bedfellows, strange dreamers

Figures & data

Figure 1. Vietnam’s trade from China, period between 2000 and 2018.

Source: Drawn on the data by the Vietnam General Statistics Office.

Table 1. List of vietnam’s FTAs, December 2018

No.	Agreements	Members	Status
1	ASEAN FTA	ASEAN members	Effective
2	ASEAN-China FTA	ASEAN, China	Effective
3	ASEAN-Japan FTA	ASEAN, Japan	Effective
4	ASEAN-Korea FTA	ASEAN, South Korea	Effective
5	ASEAN-India	ASEAN, India	Effective
6	ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA	ASEAN, Australia, New Zealand	Signed 2009, Effective 2010
7	ASEAN-Hongkong FTA	ASEAN, Hong Kong	Signed 2017, effective 2019
8	Vietnam-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (goods, services, and labor)	Vietnam, Japan	Signed 2008, effective 2009
9	Vietnam-Chile FTA	Vietnam, Chile	Signed 2011, effective 2014
10	Vietnam-Korea FTA (goods, services and investments)	Vietnam, South Korea	Signed 2015, effective 2015
11	Vietnam-Eurasia Economic Union	Vietnam, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan	Signed 2015, effective 2016
12	Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership	Australia, Brunei, Canada, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam	Signed 2018, Effective 2019
13	Vietnam-EU FTA (EVFTA)	Vietnam, EU countries	Effective 2020
14	Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership	ASEAN, China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand	Signed in 2020
15	Vietnam-Israel FTA	Vietnam, Israel	Under negotiation
16	Vietnam-European Free Trade Association FTA	Vietnam, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland	Under negotiation

Source: Data from To Minh Thu, “Vietnam’s International Economic Integration under Doi Moi.” In Vietnam’s Foreign Policy under Doi Moi, edited by L. H. Hiep, and A. Tsvetov. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018. Updated by the author.