The EU doesn’t have to settle for a bad deal with Vietnam

Some argue that we should tread carefully and refrain from asking too much in terms of human rights from the Vietnamese, because if we do so we could end up pushing Vietnam into China’s orbit. But this doesn’t hold, writes Jude Kirton-Darling.

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From left to right: Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam; Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister for Agricultural and Rural Development of Vietnam; Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy; Sebastian Kurz, Austrian Federal Chancellor, on 19 October 2018 in Brussels. [Council newsroom]

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