Digital Biz

The leaders of Vietnam and Japan affirmed that bilateral cooperation in areas including defence, security, the economy, economic security, energy resources, trade, investment, science, technology, agriculture, the environment, ocean management, education and training, labour, culture, sports, tourism, law and justice, locality cooperation and people-to-people exchanges has developed substantially and has continued to strengthen and broaden.

The agreements covering energy infrastructure, nuclear power, artificial intelligence (AI), education, environmental protection and institutional development.

Following the talks, the two leaders adopted the Vietnam-Japan Joint Vision Statement, emphasizing partnership, co-creation, and mutual benefit for high-quality growth, strategic autonomy, and resilience.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and President To Lam met with leaders of major Japanese corporations in Tokyo on November 9 as part of his official visit to Japan.

Vietnam's Stavian Group and Japan's Midas Capital signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to co-invest in submarine optical cable systems, digital technology infrastructure, and artificial intelligence (AI) and Super Intelligence (SI) computing facilities in Vietnam.

With an ecosystem coming together on the manufacturing side of the industry, the key task becomes finding viable markets for Vietnamese semiconductors given their still-nascent development.