a relationship that can only be describe as: not enemy but not friend
china is our biggest trading partner, and one of our biggest neighbor.
In the past, china show big interests in controlling and try to annex our territories a few time in the past. After the conflict from 79-90, china and Nam signed a peace agreement to secure both country interest in peace. Now, with the rise of china and the new china plan of a silk road in the 21 century (aka the belt and road initiative), we are hoping to gain some sort of benefit from it
but of course, the South china sea conflict, the region's gunpowder. With all of it vast natural resources, the chinese not just gonna let them slip out of their hand
also, most of Viet dont really like china.