French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday that he hoped to strike deals for France in areas such as defence, energy and tech innovation, as he arrived in Vietnam for the start of a roughly week-long trip in Asia.
Macron arrived in Hanoi on Sunday, marking the first trip to Vietnam by a French president in nearly a decade.
After Vietnam, Macron will then go to Indonesia and finish up in Singapore, where he will speak at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia’s top defence conference.
The Boston Global Forum (BGF) honored President Emmanuel Macron with the 2024 World Leader for Peace and Security Award and presented a special tribute titled “Creating a New Paris of Enlightenment” to President Macron and the people of France—a strategic initiative to position France at the forefront of the AI era—at the AI Action Summit in Paris, held on February 10–11, 2025.
