越南国家主席苏林预计将利用本周对日本的访问，同东京拓展贸易和投资选择，尤其是在技术领域，这发生在美国未来政策方向持续存在不确定性之际。
Vietnam’s To Lam is expected to use his visit to Japan this week to expand trade and investment options with Tokyo, especially in technology, amid continued uncertainty surrounding America’s future policy direction.
周一在东京同日本首相高市早苗举行会谈后，两国领导人承诺加快在关键矿产方面的公私合作，一份联合声明将经济安全列为双边关系的首要任务，并承诺深化防务和投资合作。
After talks with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Monday, the two leaders pledged to speed up public-private cooperation on critical minerals, with a joint statement calling economic security a top priority in bilateral relations and promising deeper cooperation on defence and investment.
双方还重申，让日本资助的液化天然气和燃气发电项目尽快投入运行至关重要，同时承诺推进将核能引入越南的计划。
Both sides also reiterated the importance of getting Japanese-funded liquefied natural gas and gas-fired power projects up and running quickly, while pledging to push ahead with plans to bring nuclear power to Vietnam.
高市表示，越南国家主席为期四天的正式访问将于周三结束，将使两国能够“在为亚洲和世界的和平与繁荣而建立的全面战略伙伴关系下迈出巨大步伐”。两国于2023年11月成为全面战略伙伴。
Takaichi said the Vietnamese president’s four-day official visit, which ends on Wednesday, would allow the countries to “make great strides forward under our comprehensive strategic partnership for peace and prosperity in Asia and the world”. The two countries became comprehensive strategic partners in November 2023.
苏林同时也是越南执政的共产党总书记，他称此次访问“务实且极富成果”。双方六个月前首次会晤，当时高市访问了越南。
Lam, who is also general secretary of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party, called the visit “substantive and extremely fruitful”. The two met for the first time six months ago, when Takaichi visited Vietnam.
在面临来自中国的政治和经济压力之际，两国都在寻求更紧密的关系，例如中国对稀土出口的限制。北京在东海与东京、在南海与河内均存在领土主张争端。
Both countries are seeking closer ties amid political and economic pressure from China, such as restrictions on rare earth exports. Beijing also has competing territorial claims with Tokyo in the East China Sea and Hanoi in the South China Sea.
东京国士馆大学政治经济学教授助川成也表示，此次访问是越南“拓展贸易、投资和技术合作选择，并增强经济韧性”更广泛努力的一部分，这发生在持续的全球逆风之际。
Seiya Sukegawa, a professor of political science and economics at Kokushikan University in Tokyo, said the visit was part of a broader effort on the part of Vietnam “to expand its options for trade, investment and technology cooperation, and to strengthen economic resilience” amid persistent global headwinds.
这发生在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的共和党在上周美国中期选举中惨败之后，由此形成的分裂政府加强了国会对其外交政策的监督，并为围绕关税和联邦开支的冲突铺平了道路。
It comes a week after US President Donald Trump’s Republican Party lost heavily in the US midterm elections, creating a divided government that increases congressional oversight of his foreign policy and paves the way for clashes over tariffs and federal spending.
根据越南贸易统计数据，美国是越南迄今最大的出口市场，今年前10个月占越南所有出口货物的约三分之一。
The United States is by far Vietnam’s largest export market, accounting for roughly one-third of all shipments in the first 10 months of this year, according to Vietnamese trade statistics.
但鉴于华盛顿屡次表达担忧，认为这个东南亚国家可能成为中国出口转道的“后门”，助川表示，河内需要在多元化市场的同时，在国内同步扩大生产、加工和价值创造。
But with Washington repeatedly voicing concerns that the Southeast Asian nation could serve as a back door for diverted Chinese exports, Sukegawa said Hanoi needed to diversify its markets while simultaneously expanding production, processing and value creation at home.
他说：“与日本合作可以帮助越南企业超越组装和承包制造，转向工艺改进、设计支持、软件开发和生产数据分析。”
“Cooperation with Japan can help Vietnamese companies move beyond assembly and contract manufacturing into process improvement, design support, software development and production-data analysis,” he said.
助川表示，越南快速增长且具备能力的IT劳动力能够胜任这些更高价值的任务，从而将技术和收入留在国内。
Vietnam’s rapidly growing and capable IT workforce could handle these higher-value tasks, Sukegawa said, keeping technology and revenue in the country.
新南威尔士大学堪培拉分校东南亚问题专家、名誉教授卡莱尔·泰勒预计，两国将重点关注三大合作领域：人工智能、半导体及相关联合研究；能源和关键矿产；以及数字、航天和气候合作。
Carlyle Thayer, a Southeast Asia specialist and emeritus professor at UNSW Canberra, expects the two countries to focus on three broad areas of collaboration: AI, semiconductors and related joint research; energy and critical minerals; and digital, space and climate cooperation.
他说，新的研究项目将建立在5月签署的六项合作协议基础之上，这些协议涵盖数字发展、卫星数据共享、低碳增长和气候适应型基础设施等目标。
He said new research projects would build on the six cooperation agreements signed in May covering digital development, satellite data-sharing, low carbon growth and climate-resilient infrastructure, among other targets.
泰勒表示，越南的重点将是确定工作层面项目的优先顺序，这些项目建立在现有的大学合作伙伴关系之上，旨在将越南企业与日本的资本和技术对接。
The focus for Vietnam would be setting priorities for working-level projects that build on existing university partnerships, Thayer said, with the aim of connecting Vietnamese companies to Japanese capital and technology.
“越南已将通过与多元化伙伴和供应链达成合作协议、发展更具实力的国内企业确立为优先事项，”他说，并补充称，与日本达成的协议将与林在近期访问澳大利亚和新西兰时达成的协议相呼应，后者涵盖经济、贸易、教育、航空、国防和安全。
“Vietnam has set a priority of developing more capable domestic firms through cooperation agreements with a diversity of partners and supply chains,” he said, adding that the deals made with Japan would mirror those Lam reached on recent trips to Australia and New Zealand, which covered the economy, trade, education, aviation, defence and security.
总部设在河内的政治智库VietKnow主席何黄合表示，林的日本之行反映了关注点的转移，从单纯吸引外资转向共同建设发展能力。
Lam’s Japan trip reflected a shift of focus from solely attracting foreign investment towards jointly building development capacity, said Ha Hoang Hop, chairman of Hanoi-based political think tank VietKnow.
他同样列举了涵盖人工智能、高级技能培训和清洁能源的合作，以及小型模块化反应堆这一紧凑型核电站的长期框架，还有半导体供应链更紧密的联系。
He likewise listed cooperation spanning AI, advanced skills training and clean energy, as well as a long-term framework for compact nuclear power plants known as small modular reactors and stronger links in the semiconductor supply chain.
他说，双边关系已从援助、基础设施、工厂投资和劳务合作，拓展至涵盖经济安全、创新、绿色转型和安全。
Ties between the two had grown from aid, infrastructure, factory investment and labour cooperation to cover economic security, innovation, the green transition and security, he said.
“这反映了利益日益紧密的一致，”何黄合补充道，并指出两国在“海上安全和维护基于规则的秩序”方面也拥有共同利益，他将其定义为包括尊重国际法、和平解决争端和开放的贸易环境。
“This reflects an increasingly close alignment of interests,” Hop added, noting that both countries also shared an interest in “maritime security and in upholding a rules-based order”, which he defined as including respect for international law, the peaceful settlement of disputes and an open trading environment.
周一，林在日本议会发表演讲时称，科学、技术、创新和数字化转型是未来发展的关键驱动力，并表示日本在这些方面处于核心地位。
In an address to Japan’s parliament on Monday, Lam called science, technology, innovation and digital transformation key drivers of future development and said Japan was central to them.
他还在一个经济、科技合作官民论坛上发言，并会见了日本主要企业和商业团体的负责人。
He also spoke at a public-private forum on economic and science-technology cooperation and met the heads of major Japanese companies and business bodies.
越南今年担任《全面与进步的跨太平洋伙伴关系协定》（CPTPP）主席，该贸易协定包含12个经济体，并将主办2027年亚太经济合作组织（APEC）会议。
Vietnam chairs the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade pact comprising 12 economies, this year and will host the 2027 meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
助川本周表示，此次访问应促使东京和河内考虑如何通过这些机制，以及通过东南亚国家联盟（东盟）更紧密地合作。
Sukegawa said this week’s visit should prompt Tokyo and Hanoi to consider how to work more closely together through those bodies, as well as through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
他说：“越南应利用这个机会，考虑如何强化东盟作为中等强国的作用，并恢复其地区谈判能力。”
“Vietnam should use this opportunity to consider how to strengthen Asean’s role as a middle power and restore its regional negotiating capacity,” he said.