When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese arrives in Vietnam, he will engage the most enigmatic national leadership – and certainly the most skilled in the art of political calibration – of the major countries in Asia. This visit counts.
Vietnam’s population is about 100 million. Its per capita GDP is greater than that of the Philippines and just below Indonesia’s. It is probably the fastest-growing economy in the region.
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John McCarthy is a former ambassador to Vietnam, the United States, Indonesia and Japan, a high commissioner to India, and a senior adviser to Asialink.
