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Vietnam statistics agency recalculates Gdp every 5 years. Last time in 2019. Possibility Vietnam economy has reached $610 billion.

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The people at statistics office seems running behind the clock. Vietnam customs reported the export to the US a 28% increase to $126 billion after 10 months.
However according to US customs the number of Vietnam exports has almost reached after 8 months. A gap of $30-35 billion

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Vietnam’s exports to US soar to record levels - VnExpress International

Exports to the U.S. in the first 10 months rose to a historic high, surpassing full-year 2024, driven by textiles and electronics.
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Samsung Display maps out OLED expansion in Vietnam's Bac Ninh hub​

Jingyue Hsiao, DIGITIMES Asia, TaipeiTuesday 2 December 20250

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Samsung Display (SDC) is preparing to reposition Vietnam's Bac Ninh Province as a core base for its next-generation OLED business under a plan that shifts the facility from a general production site to a center for high-value display technologies.
 
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carmaker Vinfast goes big in India.
More local production
More imports from Vietnam
2 more car models including 7-seater vehicle
Electric bikes
Electric bus
 
seems the relationship is warming up. Vietnam, China launch linking of the two countries cashless payment systems: Napas (Vietnam) and UnionPay (China). that will make Vietnamese and Chinese easier to pay cashless in both countries.

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Making games for a living

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TBM tunnel boring machine as main technology in building subways, however introduced to Vietnam just recently.
The first machine TBM1, has taken 16 months to complete the 4km section of Hanoi subways, now with experience learned from TBM1, the TBM2, TBM3 progress is fast and faster.

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Vietnam’s Parliament Puts Rare Earths Under Lock and Key—A New Legal Play in the Global Resource Race​

December 1, 2025
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Highlights

  • Vietnam’s National Assembly introduces a dedicated legal framework for rare earth exploration and extraction.
  • REEs are declared a “particularly important resource requiring unified national management” amid geopolitical competition.
  • New regulations mandate science-based risk controls, radiation monitoring, and strict licensing.
  • Licensing is limited to enterprises with advanced technology and international environmental standards.
  • Wildcat mining is rejected in favor of deep processing.
  • Export controls and minimum domestic processing requirements reflect a resource nationalism strategy.
  • Vietnam aims to position itself as a credible non-Chinese REE alternative if laws are implemented effectively.
Vietnam’s National Assembly has signaled a decisive shift in how the country plans to control, license, and police its rare earth resources. During debate on the amended Law on Geology and Minerals, legislators called for a dedicated legal chapter governing rare earth exploration, extraction, and processing—an unmistakable declaration that REEs are now a “particularly important resource requiring unified national management.” For a nation holding major untapped deposits at Lai Châu and Lào Cai, this is more than bureaucratic fine print. It is legal architecture designed for an era of geopolitical competition.

See Rare Earth Exchanges™ “Vietnam’s Rare Earth Awakening: From Sleeping Giant to Global Contender.”

What's Inside​

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Engineers, Not Cowboys: A Technocratic Gatekeeper Model Emerges​

Deputies from Hà Nội to Lâm Đồng argued for science-based risk controls, strict radiation monitoring, and closed-loop extraction–separation technologies. Their tone was unusually direct: only enterprises with strong technology, financing, and international-standard environmental systems should receive licenses.

Vietnam is signaling it wants no repeat of the “wildcat mining” era—only a rules-based REE industry capable of deep processing, not raw exports.

Real-time radiation oversight, multi-year environmental appraisal, and independent checks by the national nuclear safety agency show that this is not just environmental caution—it is economic strategy. Vietnam wants REE development to strengthen national autonomy, not deepen foreign technology dependency.

Guarding the Crown Jewels: Resource Nationalism, Upgraded​

Several deputies advocated export controls, minimum domestic deep-processing ratios, and tighter criteria for company selection. Their concern: resource grabs, opaque joint ventures, and core technology leakage—issues familiar across Asia as China dominates global REE separation capacity.

One deputy warned that REE projects often require 3–5 years of preparation and urged flexibility to avoid incentivizing rushed, low-value extraction rather than the high-value industrial base Vietnam aims to build.

Sorting Signal from Spin​

Vietnam’s rare earth deposits are substantial, and long-overdue legal modernization—paired with legitimate environmental and radiation safeguards—reflects a realistic push toward deep processing that fits the broader regional move to reset supply chains beyond China.

Yet some elements of the parliamentary debate lean more political than practical: warnings of “low reserves” overstate geological risk when Vietnam’s true bottleneck is metallurgical know-how, and the heavy focus on “technology security” operates as much as geopolitical messaging and investment caution as it does genuine industrial planning.

Why It Matters to Global Supply Chains​

Vietnam is positioning itself as a future node for rare earth processing and magnet manufacturing. These legal reforms—defining who is allowed to operate, under what conditions, and with what oversight—will shape investment for at least a decade. If implemented well, Vietnam could become the Indo-Pacific’s most credible non-Chinese REE alternative. If poorly executed, this could become another stalled opportunity mired in bureaucracy.

© 2025 Rare Earth Exchanges™ – Accelerating Transparency, Accuracy, and Insight Across the Rare Earth & Critical Minerals Supply Chain.
 
Vietnamese warship, missile frigate „Tran hung dao“, visits Qingdao.

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looks interesting
Vinfast 2 new sedans
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Ccp seem not happy with Laos.
China just sends a low ranking official to Laos´ 50th republic day, while Vietnam the most senior official: the party chief. during the official greetings all foreign representatives stood up the Chinese officials remained idle. pretty weird.
Probably because Laos has set Vietnamese officials in the first seat row, the Chinese officials in the second row.

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For the first time ever Vietnam reveals CD-1 proximity fuse. A critical component in artillery shells, bombs and missiles, having all parts printed on a tinny plate
  • Radio waves (RF radar)
  • Infrared sensors
  • Acoustic sensors
  • Capacitive or electrostatic sensors
Only few countries can make it.

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