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Undersea cable is now foreign policy: Vietnam and Australia sign a five-year digital pact
The memorandum covers AI, semiconductors, cross-border data flows, undersea cables and data centres. Two-way trade passed $14 billion in 2025, against a $20 billion target.
Positive-sum angle: A cable and data-flow framework gives Vietnamese cloud and AI firms a second export corridor that does not route through a single hyperscaler's home market.