Vietnam → United States
This score represents Vietnam's relationship toward United States. The reverse direction is calculated separately and shown alongside it.
SIX-COMPONENT MODEL
Current component scores
Component values run from −100 to +100 and are combined with the published weights.
1 documented factor produce the +10 security assessment.
Why this score?
- +10Relationship elevated to Comprehensive Strategic PartnershipActive event · 2023
The 2023 upgrade opened deeper cooperation in economic security, semiconductors, technology, energy and regional strategy.
Coverage gap: Maritime assistance was expanding in 2015 but did not yet meet the frozen exceptional-integration threshold.
3 documented factors produce the +45 diplomacy assessment.
Why this score?
- +20Historic party-leader visit produces a joint visionBaseline rule · 2015
The 2015 visit by Vietnam's Communist Party general secretary produced a bilateral Joint Vision Statement and accelerated the Comprehensive Partnership.
- +10Expanding annual and agency-level dialoguesBaseline rule · 2015
The Comprehensive Partnership maintained recurring foreign-policy, security, human-rights and economic consultations.
- +15Relationship elevated to Comprehensive Strategic PartnershipActive event · 2023
The 2023 upgrade opened deeper cooperation in economic security, semiconductors, technology, energy and regional strategy.
4 documented factors produce the +30 economic assessment.
Why this score?
- +15Trade and reform cooperation expandsBaseline rule · 2015
The governments coordinated on rapidly growing trade, investment and TPP-related economic reforms.
- +20Bilateral trade thresholdBaseline rule · 2015
Reported trade activates the absolute methodology route using the latest observation available for this year.
- +15Relationship elevated to Comprehensive Strategic PartnershipActive event · 2023
The 2023 upgrade opened deeper cooperation in economic security, semiconductors, technology, energy and regional strategy.
- -20Annual methodology 1.1 recalculationAnnual recalculation · 2026
The current component replaces the 2015 quantitative threshold or time-bounded structural package with the evidence applicable in the selected year.
3 documented factors produce the -10 alignment assessment.
Why this score?
- +10Regional and global policy cooperationBaseline rule · 2015
Joint commitments covered ASEAN, maritime law, climate, health, non-proliferation and peacekeeping.
- -30United Nations voting alignmentBaseline rule · 2015
A rolling three-year comparison of UN General Assembly votes activates the alignment threshold.
- +10Relationship elevated to Comprehensive Strategic PartnershipActive event · 2023
The 2023 upgrade opened deeper cooperation in economic security, semiconductors, technology, energy and regional strategy.
1 documented factor produce the +15 disputes assessment.
Why this score?
- +15War legacy managed inside a cooperative frameworkBaseline rule · 2015
The partners addressed missing personnel, unexploded ordnance and dioxin remediation through durable cooperation rather than an active bilateral claim.
1 documented factor produce the +20 societal assessment.
Why this score?
- +20Large education, travel and youth linksBaseline rule · 2015
Tens of thousands of travelers, university partnerships and nationwide youth initiatives sustained expanding societal ties.
+11 in 2015 → +18 in 2026
The change is generated from sourced events and frozen scoring rules, not retrospective editorial adjustment.
6 points
Vietnam → United States and United States → Vietnam remain independent assessments.
View the reverse direction →ACTIVE EVIDENCE
Events affecting the current score
Relationship elevated to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
The 2023 upgrade opened deeper cooperation in economic security, semiconductors, technology, energy and regional strategy.
This analytical score is not an objective fact, endorsement or prediction. Confidence reflects evidence coverage, while incomplete or unavailable observations remain explicit. Differences below 5 points are treated as practical ties rather than a meaningful ranking.
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