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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam – 28 April 2025
1. Cargo ship sailing on Saigon River, city skyline in background
2. Close of buildings
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Hanoi, Vietnam – 14 July 2025
3. Various of traffic
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Hanoi, Vietnam – 12 August 2025
4. People walking by Hoan Kiem Lake
5. People walking under rows of Vietnamese and Communist flags
6. Close of flags
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Provo, Utah, U.S. – 30 July 2025
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7. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard McClellan, Founder of RMAC Advisory:
"It still is largely low value added manufacturing that is being done in Vietnam. That is the economic engine that is driving everything right now. They will have to pivot away from that and they will have to become more innovative, they will have to have a broader skill set in order to become a fully developed country."
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ARCHIVE: Hai Phong, Vietnam – 29 September 2023
8. Various of car frames being welded by robots at Vinfast car factory
9. Various of workers assembling electric cars
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ARCHIVE: Hanoi, Vietnam – 20 May 2024
10. Wide of National Assembly session
11. Close of Vietnamese General Secretary of the Communist Party To Lam, then Minister of Public Security
12. Pan of National Assembly session
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ARCHIVE: Hanoi, Vietnam – 27 February 2019
13. Various of meeting between then-U.S. President Donald Trump and Vietnamese leaders
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Adelaide, Australia – 30 July 2025
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nguyen Khac Giang, political analyst:
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"The unpredictability of Trump’s tariffs will play a very crucial role because now, if you see the way Vietnam has been trying to negotiate the deal with Trump, it’s important to see that Vietnam are desperately trying to offer whatever they can to secure a good deal, because for Vietnam, no deal or bad deal would be very bad for To Lam’s reforms, because they want to buy more time for all of those domestic reforms to be effective. And it would take I would say years, not months."
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Hanoi, Vietnam – 12 August 2025
15. Various of buildings under construction
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Adelaide, Australia – 30 July 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Nguyen Khac Giang, political analyst:
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"Vietnam is going to grow old very quickly in the next couples of decades. Then the demographic dividend of Vietnam is coming to an end. So, if only depends on the labor intensive industries like garments or textiles, there is no way for Vietnam to escape from the ‘middle-income trap’ like many other fellow Southeast Asians are also facing with."
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Hanoi, Vietnam – 12 August 2025
17. Various of people doing exercises
18. Various of women practicing tai chi
STORYLINE:
Beneath red banners and a gold bust of Vietnam’s revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi’s central party school, Communist Party chief To Lam declared the arrival of “a new era of development” late last year.
The speech was more than symbolic— it signaled the launch of what could be Vietnam’s most ambitious economic overhaul in decades.
The challenge ahead is steep: Reconciling growth with overdue reforms, an aging population, climate risks and creaking institutions.
Vietnam’s own economic trajectory is remarkable. It aims to get rich by 2045 and become Asia’s next “tiger economy” — a term used to describe the earlier ascent of countries like South Korea and Taiwan.
By 2030, Vietnam hopes to elevate at least 20 private firms to a global scale.
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