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Arctic security is becoming more as an issue.
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Greenland is NATO territory.
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What should happen to Greenland?
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It's up to the Greenlanders to decide.
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What we will defend at any time is their right to determine their own future.
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You can't really get mad at anyone in Vietnam because people are too nice.
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A country, a people that has gone through a lot of suffering.
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But it's the complete opposite I find here.
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I mean, this is, Vietnamese people are very open.
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They're very friendly.
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Vietnam is a little bit you know as I stated before being a victim to its own success an economy
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that grows like six seven eight percent a year
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and in the future you'd like to grow double digit things become more expensive here eventually
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you might end up being trapped in what you call the middle income trap
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this is what Vietnam needs to try to escape.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to Vietnam Innovators Digest I'm your host Tù Âng.
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Today we are honored to welcome
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His Excellency Mr. Nikolai Britz, Ambassador of Denmark to Vietnam.
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Denmark and Vietnam have built a friendship spanning more than five decades since diplomatic relations were established in 1971,
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a relationship that has grown from traditional development cooperation into a modern, mutually beneficial partnership.
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In recent years, that partnership has taken on even greater global relevance,
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especially with Denmark and Vietnam launching a green strategic partnership to accelerate cooperation on climate action,
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green growth, and sustainable investment.
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And we are seeing real momentum on the ground.
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Danish investment in Vietnam has surpassed $2 billion dollars,
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and Danish companies are expanding in ways that connect directly to Vietnam's green ambitions.
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So today, Mr. Ambassador, it's my privilege to have you here on the show.
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No, thanks.
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Thank you very much for having me.
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It's a pleasure.
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So Greenland is getting a lot of global attention again because the audit is becoming more strategically important.
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So how does Denmark think about Arctic security in a way that supports stability while respecting Greenland's self -government and local priorities?
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I think that
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Arctic security is becoming more as an issue.
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I'm not sure it is as it is now, but there is certainly a perspective of becoming,
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let's say, more of a high -tension area in geopolitical terms, which is something we should take very serious.
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And this is also why Denmark is completely aligned with our NATO allies, including the United States, that we want to invest in that.
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Now, Greenland is NATO territory, so that's something we are discussing, we have with other NATO countries,
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including the United States, about how we can enhance security in that region.
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So we take it very seriously.
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There's also, and I guess this is what you're alluding to, there's been the last discussions about what should happen to Greenland.
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It's very simple.
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It's up to the Greenlanders to decide.
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We're not holding on to anything here, right?
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What we will defend at any time is their right to determine their own future.
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So that's what we have to say about that.
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There are, as you have also read from the international press, there will be a high -level working group that will be discussing these issues.
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And this is what we're waiting for the outcome of.
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So Vietnam has been actively reforming its public administration system to improve transparency,
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efficiency, and public service delivery.
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So from your longstanding experience working in Vietnam, how do you access that progress so far?
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No, I mean, listen, I think we've all been impressed by the level of ambition when it comes to these reforms,
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public sector reform on the back of
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that you had private sector reform uh you're having the innovation technology
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and innovation law and enforcement etc etc internet internationalization and
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so on listen this is extremely important i would like to say
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i would like to commend vietnam for embarking on this now
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because i think it's going to be really really important
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i think it's also going to be to be very honest honest extremely necessary vietnam is i mean
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there's no question that vietnam has uh has been on a fantastic journey
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when you look over the last few decades uh
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you know very you know steady growth lifting millions of vietnamese literally uh out of poverty
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so i mean a lot of things is going vietnam's way
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but you're also reaching a point where you are uh
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you are you are running to some more
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i would say structural challenges uh demography being one at some point Vietnam is going to have an elderly population, meaning
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that.. fewer people proportionally would be in the productive sector and
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that would go that would go pretty fast
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so in in in other words you're going to have less people providing for more people
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that is a challenge there's nothing odd about that
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that happens in all countries at some point only
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that in vietnam in europe it's happening a long time ago yeah
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and the answer to that is obviously productivity you need to enhance productivity
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and this is why these reforms are coming about also so
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that is that is the i'm also i'm not surprised either
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because i mean that is the beauty about demography you can see
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that what will happen in the future pretty much
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and this is also why you need to you need to reform your way out of it it's also important
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because vietnam to some extent i mean apart from the demography
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that vietnam is a little bit
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you know as i stated before being a victim to its own success an economy
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that grows like six seven eight percent a year
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and in the future you'd like to grow double digit at some point things become more expensive here
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you're going to have countries around vietnam it's getting expensive every single year i feel like it is it is
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but but you have to look it from
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and from a foreign investor point of view also
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they will always say it's not a given thing
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they need to invest in vietnam they will always look at their options could there be countries
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that are more interesting because let's say labor costs are cheaper there
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that could be the case this is why i'm saying
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this thing about making you know reforming private sector reform public sector reform
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i think it's immensely important for vietnam to be able to continue to be attractive as a destination for fgi
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because if not eventually you might end up being trapped in what you call the middle income trap
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which is uh you probably heard about it
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and this is what what vietnam needs to try to escape right
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you just built you beautifully reminded me of i just did
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a little bit more in -depth of a research about surprisingly
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now the middle age medium age in vietnam now is 34 it used to be 30 29 30
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and now it's 34 yeah so it's only going up yeah yeah okay
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so it's about the trade investment relationship between denmark and vietnam yeah
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and and you recently recognized with the Nordic Leadership Awards for these efforts.
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So could you share some of the key initiatives or strategies your team has used to boost
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Danish Vietnamese trade and investment and how they contribute to a more sustainable and innovative economic partnership?
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Yeah.
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Well, again, thanks for highlighting my role in it.
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But to be honest, this goes way back.
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As I said, this all started really way back in the years
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when we gave official development aid
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because as i said i mean back back in in those days
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we also made some financing for companies to de -risk them
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so they could come in at an early stage
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so that's where it all started really uh what we are doing at the embassy
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and our office here in ho chi ming city i mean
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we are obviously following what's going on in vietnam
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it's a very dynamic market well our role is also to
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see you know what we see we don't just sit on
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that information we actually communicated back home to copenhagen
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and other parts of denmark so we have colleagues
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that more you know several times a year would travel back
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and actually meet to danish companies and business associations to display these opportunities for them
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so they know about them many of them will come out here
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and explore it for themselves so we're really trying to be alert
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and see what's going on in vietnam i think it's also
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we come from a country where yeah you have the very big companies
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that you have heard about them like lego and pandora
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and maersk and so on and over nordisk
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that have the capacity to look out in the world
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and you really have this filter to find out you know where the opportunities are
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but but there are many companies that don't have
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that capacity to look
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that far away they might have a tendency to look more
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on the near markets more on the more traditional markets now it's also important for us to communicate opportunities to them
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so they have a chance to see what's going on in vietnam
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and then we will help them sort of pursue
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it by receiving them here we would make meeting programs we'll try to find partners for them
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and we would even do promotional work i mean
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we had like getting back to the visit
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we have our crown friends couple in 22 they were accompanied with i think it was like 36 companies
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that came out focusing on renewables and energy efficiency
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so you know we use these opportunities where we can see
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something to try to let's say get them here to vietnam and and get a first -hand impression
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and so on so that's really important for us we also like to try to help danish companies
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that are already here to enhance their presence
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sometimes a context with authorities in vietnam just goes through the embassy that's like the natural pathway
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so to the extent that we can help them
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that way around we're also at their disposal so i think we have just let's say the interest of Danish
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companies danish economic interests we have it very much on our radar screen
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we have a very close dialogue with the danish businesses
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and business associations so we can always uh you know tell them about
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or inform them about opportunities in vietnam i didn't know that
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that was just in 2022
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that was just like 36 companies coming out already sorry
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it's not going to be on no no no they they they didn't come out
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but they came out with a delegation as part of the
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visit to look at vietnam some of them were already here
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they used it they they used the opportunity to sign business deals
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I think we had something like 14 business deals being signed on that occasion.
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So, you know, a lot of things goes on.
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We've been talking about Vietnam's economic growth story, and it's been remarkable.
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So, but then I feel like the global landscape has changed rapidly.
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Yeah.
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And then how do you see the sustainability of Vietnam's current growth model?
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And in your opinion, what are the key drivers that will help Vietnam maintain its momentum?
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and then enhance its global competitiveness in the upcoming years?
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Yeah, big question.
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I agree, as I said earlier.
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I mean, I think it is unquestionable that the growth model has proven to be very, very good for Vietnam, brought about,
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you know, massively impressive results.
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It has shown to be robust also.
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I mean, you have been quite a few, quite a bit of turbulence, and it is shown to be robust also.
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But as I also said, you are running into some structural issues where you would need to upgrade your economy to some extent.
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Now, there's a lot of talk about the next thing Vietnam used to do was just climb the ladder.
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And now you've got to be, you know, a big part of the semiconductor industry and so on.
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Two, you need to climb up there also.
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But what I would like to highlight is still the manufacturing part of it, because it's not like manufacturing is going away tomorrow in Vietnam.
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I think there's ample room to upgrade manufacturing also.
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So a lot of the things, I mean, is being done relatively manually in Vietnam still.
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You are still at the very low, let's say, part of the supply chain there.
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There's ample room in many manufacturing companies to do a lot of, let's say, upgrading.
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You know, you can automatize, you can digitalize and so on.
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So there's really ample room to sort of upgrade the manufacturings that are already here.
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And you can gain a lot from that, become a lot more competitive.
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That being said, you also need to attract, obviously, new kinds of investment.
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I just mentioned semiconductors.
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I know some is already being done here, packaging and so on.
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But Vietnam would probably have the ambition to try to be more, let's say, into the more sophisticated part of that production also by design,
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innovation, et cetera, et cetera.
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You would need to come to the latter.
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That's going to require a lot of things, investment in skilling of labor, upskilling of labor.
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You would need also to invest more in infrastructure, that's for sure one thing
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i would like to highlight where i think vietnam still has
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probably a bit of homework to do would be on renewable energy
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because we have talked about a little bit that
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that it's it's hugely important that sufficient energy in vietnam to support the growth
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but where we're also seeing at least the the few years i've only had for three
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and a half years the time i've been here and
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when i've spoken to danish companies
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they inquire about okay what is the cost of labor
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you know what's the tax system like what is the business conditions like you know
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and once they ticks all these boxes off you know they they now also ask
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and what about access to renewable energy and that's interesting but
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if you think it through it makes a lot of sense
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because many of them they come to Vietnam they produce here
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but then they export and they export to the European market
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and other markets
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and you just see a growing demand there of companies
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they they're being met with requirements they need to effectively be able to document
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that they have a zero carbon neutral footprint
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and energy means a lot there so i'm just saying
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that energy renewable energy it's not just about having sufficient energy it's about having renewable energy i think that's really
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if the way i see it one of the more decisive parameters
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and i think it will play a larger
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and larger role going forward in investors decisions whether they come to vietnam
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or not i think it's going to be a key role moving forward.
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It will.
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I have no doubt.
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I've been sitting in on meetings with the Vietnam Business Forum, EuroChamp, NordChamp.
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This is one of the things I always highlight on these meetings in their reports,
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you know, where they really would like to see even more action from the government.
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Lots of, you know, initiatives have been taken.
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You have the PDV -8 that is sort of dictating what way Vietnam should move,
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but you've got to see more in the implementation part of it,
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i guess for it to to become real from your point of view is it still manufacturing or do you think
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areas like digital innovation green energy or any other sector
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that may become the next growth engine for vietnam i think that's hard to say
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because as i said manufacturing
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it's just like a lot of people talk about you know basic manufacturing you know on the factory floor you know
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we should move on from that i don't see it happening
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because there are still
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so many gains to be had in terms of productivity
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i mean i've seen factories where you had like you know maybe six seven people working
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you know manually the next time i come around there's a machine doing
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that for them there'll only be one person you know
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so i'm just saying
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that there's a lot of there's still a lot of productivity gains to be had in traditional manufacturing
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so i i think that's going to be a very big part still of what vietnam
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you build up very good manufacturing make capabilities that should be explored fully through increasing productivity optimization
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digitalization and so on so that's one thing uh
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but obviously as i said you should also try to attract
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and i don't know great things are being done great efforts are being done to
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that end to attract more sophisticated kind of you know technology investments in the semiconductor industry etc etc
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that's obviously also something that should be explored it will require an investment
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because you can't just they're not just going to get here
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then you know you need to invest up against something
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so you also need to upskill people
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that can actually uh let's say implement those investments also
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so i wouldn't just point to one thing
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you did mention also in your question i thought
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it's a green did you say green renewable energy yeah vietnam can play undoubtedly a huge role
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there uh i think uh let me get back to the offshore sector
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because again that is one sector that has still not taken off
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but which will take off at least
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if you look in the PDB -8
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it will give Vietnam an abundance of energy without a doubt
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it will also put Vietnam in a position where you might be able to export energy
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and I think that is very very interesting that's gonna be amazing one more thing
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when you talk about also energy I've actually followed this quite a bit is
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that because the components involved in these things are
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so big a lot of it needs to be manufactured in Vietnam
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so this is not just about a creating a let's say another source of energy
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it's also about building creating more jobs too
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and you know a new sector around this right
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that could serve as a hub not just for let's say the sector in vietnam
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but really in in the rest of asia also this is already happening you have danish manufacturers
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and danish developers that are already sourcing big time from vietnam
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so it's already happening you have a very sophisticated industrial base
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when it comes to it but it can't enhanced even further
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so again there are so many gains today to to be had from this
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so that that's something i could see take off and and become even a bigger part of the economy
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so energy security is becoming a growing concern for vietnam
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and especially as economy expanding and then energy demand increases
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so what steps do you believe Vietnam should prioritize to ensure it has a reliable
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and sustainable energy supply to support its future growth?
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Yeah, you're talking about supply, you're talking about security.
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I mean, this is really an interesting question.
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You can look at security from different aspects.
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One would be just to make sure you have enough energy.
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That's one way of looking at it.
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Obviously, an economy that grows with 8 % this or last year and double digit, that's going to require a lot more energy.
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So, you know, the supply side would need to pick up significantly, that's for sure.
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You can also look at energy security from the standpoint of, do you want to import it or do you want to produce it yourself?
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I personally think, you know, Vietnam is in a position now where you import a very big part of your energy that you consume.
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I just can't help thinking because I've seen these studies
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that you have the capacity to produce everything locally
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if you go renewable if you do more on the solar side
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and the wind side and so on you can become self -sufficient
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and that's also about security
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because would you want to be dependent on importing energy there can be problems related to
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that in terms of supply but also fluctuating prices
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which will have an impact also on the economy and
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so on now all this can be you can internalize all this by going renewable
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so that's something that i that
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and i guess this is why it's such a big theme in the pdb8 also
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that the government of vietnam really
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you know wants to become more let's say independent uh you know just the only thing
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that can really stop renewables in vietnam in the long term is
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if the sun starts shining or the wind stops blowing i don't really foresee
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that happening anytime soon so but really no i'm serious here this is
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so important that you what by domesticating all
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that you know you become
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you're going to gain a lot of independence from from you're
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not going to be subject to you know suppliers some of them might come from trigger part of the region
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and so on another aspect is also i mean
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when you do energy today i mean there's so much uh digitalization the water net.
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Just like you want to have a safe banking system, you want to have a safe system when it comes to e -government and so on,
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you also have to have a very safe system when it comes to energy.
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Things can be hacked.
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You can be subject to cyber attacks.
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So you really got to look into also who you're dealing with when you build up.
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It doesn't matter if it's solar or if it's wind
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or what you're doing when you have these big infrastructure you've really got to look at who you're partnering up with also,
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I think that's a really important point also you mentioned it yourself in your question
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that cyber security is a huge issue and that also goes for the energy sector wow you look spooked yeah,
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I know also again I spent I guess a lot of time online looking at,
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watching all the documentary and there was like a huge problem between the US and Canada when Canada
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if it's like a electrical grid or something between the US and Canada
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if there's shutdown it's going to be the whole east side
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of America will be out of power for four days
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if not month so this is my point
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if you can internalize all this yeah
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if you can all the energy sources you need
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that could be inside of Vietnam you're not gonna depend on anyone yeah
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and who knows I mean a lot stuff can happen
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you could become i don't know vietnam is a peaceful country
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but a lot of stuff can happen in this world
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it could it be something physical
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it could be something in terms of a cyber attack it can also just be fluctuating prices of coal
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and oil and so on that's coming from i don't know where
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but uh you know it just makes you vulnerable
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and you are in a position where you can you can do it very differently
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i know it's going to mean you're going to do you're
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You're going to have to do a huge upfront investment in grids and so on.
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Not even in any generation, because a lot of these companies that comes, solar and wind and so on, I mean, they have capital with them.
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I mean, so it's not like it's not doable.
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It's absolutely doable.
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And I think something to keep in mind also is that the more you do, the cheaper it gets.
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Because let's go back to offshore again.
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I mean, in a mature market like Denmark, for example, this is the cheapest source of energy
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because we have mature market we have we have energy
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we have economy of scale this is also what would happen it might be the first practice in vietnam
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which will be okay more expensive
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but you know eventually as you start exploring uh the huge potential here it's going to get cheaper
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so so it you know even from economic point of view it just makes sense
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so when comparing vietnam with other asian asian countries like china or thailand
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In your view, what makes Vietnam particularly attractive to foreign investors?
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And are there any unique advantages or characteristics that truly set Vietnam apart in the region?
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I wouldn't make a direct comparison with Thailand and China
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because I don't claim to be an expert on any of these countries.
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I have lived in China, but that's a while ago.
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I left it in 18.
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And so it probably wouldn't be fair to compare it in
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that sense and Thailand I haven't dipped there so
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that would certainly be unfair but I can't see things about Vietnam
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that I find very compelling to start on something the new
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the more normative part of it you have you have a free trade agreement with the European Union
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this is a huge advantage I mean you can you can produce here
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and for zero tariffs they can go into Europe
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so this is obviously a very huge advantage of producing in vietnam
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now other countries are going to catch up europe is into
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diversification these days just like vietnam has been for a while
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so we are currently negotiating free trade agreements in the european union with thailand indonesia and other countries but for now
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in this part of the world or this this in southeast asia is only vietnam and it's singapore
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which is not a real competitor to you anyway that is having free trade agreements with the european Union.
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So that is a huge advantage that you can get things in for zero terrorists for now.
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But eventually you will have competitors that can do the same, as I was pointing out.
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Another advantage is, I think, about Vietnam, is your geographical location next to China.
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As you know, much of the manufacturing that is being done here is really based on imports of components from China. So
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so it makes it puts Vietnam in a very good position also
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then I would also point to I mean something
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that I've seen here in in Vietnam the three
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and a half years I've been here people are very you're very entrepreneurial
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you work a lot you want to progress in life you know this is not such a bad thing
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if you have a company that you want to grow
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and you you really want you know to have colleagues Vietnamese colleagues with those characteristics
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so I think that's something that that really plays in vietnam's favor also you are generally speaking uh
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population people that just wants to move ahead and
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and i think that's that's that's something to keep in mind you can say it's a soft element
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but i really think it's something that's that's worth mentioning rather than just a free trade agreement
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or something more let's say normative right but
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but this is something i think this is really an asset in vietnam
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that i know danish companies are very happy about um so you've been here for three and a half years yeah
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What are some other traits that you see in the Vietnamese people, besides we are entrepreneurial, we...
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I'm not saying this because you're Vietnamese and I want to please you, right?
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Please be honest.
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No, but to be honest, I mean, when you come to Vietnam, the first thing you do, even before you get here,
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if you are, you know, you start reading quite a bit about the country
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and it's not to rip up in the past
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but i mean you have a quite a past a country a people
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that has gone through a lot of suffering
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and you could expect you wouldn't be surprised if you didn't otherwise
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if people were a little bit more let's say inward looking
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and skeptical towards what you know foreigners and so on
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but it's the complete opposite i find here i mean
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this is vietnamese people are very open
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they're very friendly as i say to my friends back home
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you you can't really get mad at anyone in Vietnam
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because people are too nice you know I know
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this might maybe not be a very appropriate comment to come with it's not
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that I don't get mad that easy anyway so
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but anyway I think it's a wonderful population it really is I understand people
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that falls in love of Vietnam it is
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because it's beautiful country you have a great cuisine but
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if I had to point to one thing
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it would be the people don't start crying I just
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I really like the answer i think it's really touching
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then thank you thank you for no you're welcome it's i'm not saying
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because you're sitting in front of me this this is really genuine i mean uh
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so yeah so
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if you have just one minute to speak directly to international
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business leaders who are considering expanding to vietnam what would your key message be
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and why should they choose vietnam now yeah good question i mean one thing i would say
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because i mean i guess investors they know normally they just dive into numbers
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and see okay how's it going uh
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and it's obviously going very well i would i would still say okay that's fine
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but they are also as i pointed out vietnam is at
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a in a point in time where you need to reform i would also watch
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that part of it i would be i would be optimistic
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but i would be cautiously optimistic but it's true 2025 have
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if anything in vietnam been
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that been let's say the year of reforms they've been launched uh
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they have started we've seen the political reform uh
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you've seen the murder of ministries you have seen the murder of provinces
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you have seen the level district the district level disappear etc a lot of things is going on uh
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but you need to see full implementation
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we need to see much more in the private sector reform uh the the the digital
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and innovation uh technology and technology reform there are things we need to see
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so how is this going to turn out you know the devil's in the detail
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or the devil's in the implementation of it we need to see
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that right so i think it's good that it's happening
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but and and i really speak from denmark
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because we have we have been through very big reform processes ourselves it goes some years back
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but it's really really important that
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that you are you know follow through an implementation of it
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if not you're not going to reap the benefits fully of it right
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so i would really do
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that as a company i mean i would be optimistic about what i see
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but don't look too much towards the past also see what is happening now what way is vietnam going
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so i would be optimistic about it but but of course it's optimistic
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because we would need to see you know more on the implementation side of it one one aspect of reform
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we have done in denmark that i think we also see vietnam is embarking now and i think it's gonna
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bring about a lot of benefits it is digitalization of the public sector
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we have done that in denmark denmark is today the most uh digitalized government
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so i'm talking about digitalization of you know our services towards as citizens but also towards companies
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now the benefit of that is that it's going to be
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so much more efficient imagine
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if you don't have to go down to a public building to file something
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and line up and so on you can do everything basically from your office
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or your sofa where you're sitting
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so that's going to give a lot of benefits it's also uh
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and and and i allow myself to say it uh
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that it's also when you start digitalizing things it is the most effective way of combating corruption
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And it's a recognized problem in Vietnam that corruption is pretty inherent in many of these things.
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So by going digital, you can really do something if you want to combat corruption.
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So I think that's one of the other very, very, very big benefits of this.
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So digitalization, that's going to bring about a lot of good things.
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But most of all, let's say, better productivity, a better youth experience also for the ones involved.
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So, yeah, we have very good experiences with that.
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when you first arrived to vietnam what surprised you the most
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ah i don't know um i think i'm gonna go back
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and it's really not to impress you again
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but i think it's the kindness of the people uh extremely friendly people that's the thing you don't know
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when you come to a new place i mean you can have an impression about okay what kind of cuisine is it.
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I mean, you have Vietnamese restaurants today all over the world.
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I'd had a bang mi way before I came here.
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I had fur way before I came here, right?
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You can see beautiful pictures and you can get an idea about, wow, this is beautiful.
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This is what it's like.
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I'm really looking forward to it.
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But what you can't really get a notion of is what are the people like?
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And when you start feeling that, I mean, that is such an asset you have in Vietnam, you know, the nice people.
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So I think that was a part that surprised me the most not
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that i expected anything different but i just didn't know it so uh
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so i was just you know
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i was just positively a very positive impression from the very outset did the traffic surprise
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you at all not really because that i've heard about
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and i have lived in places where traffic is worse
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i used to live in shanghai i've used to live in sao paulo in brazil
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this is really nothing to be honest compared with
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that no it's I'm joking here but
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but yeah it's it's heavy uh it's heavy in Hanoi uh especially around rush hour
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but but it's doable I mean it's doable is there a specific moment
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or a specific interaction that happened here in Vietnam
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that just created a special memory a special bond between you and this country
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professionally I think a moment that I found very that
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that sort of left a very deep impression was was the visit of our crime prince couple
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you can say a lot of things about these very formal visits
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but it has something I mean it's something that
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so you know it can sound simple
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but it really underlines the closeness the substance of the relations between two countries
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and that's just something that became so evident during
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that visit how close we were together business -wise you know even just governments
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and so on I mean it was it was just very tense
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and it was such a good experience to say wow this is where we are with Vietnam.
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I mean, this is so amazing.
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It might sound simple that, you know, it's a visit, but I think it's one of these times where you just really,
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it's a touch point where you can really see, okay, this is where we are.
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I think that's something that has profoundly caused an impression.
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When it comes to my personal life here, I mean, so many touch points.
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I mean, places I've visited, I've had a chance to travel a lot around Vietnam And I don't know,
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it's just such a big experience every time to get to know a new part of Vietnam.
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So it's hard to point to one thing that say, wow, this was the most interesting experience I had.
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I mean, I think I've been fortunate to have many of them.
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Thank you so much, Mr. Ambassador, for coming to the show.
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More than anything, I am looking forward for the growth of relationship between Denmark and Vietnam in upcoming years.
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Thank you so much for coming to the show thank you and thank you for having me it's been a pleasure

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単語発音意味
danish 名詞/ˈdeɪ.nɪʃ/デニッシュ
renewable 形容詞/ɹɪˈnu.ə.bl̩/再生可能な
productivity 名詞/ˌpɹɒdʌkˈtɪvəti/生産性
impression 名詞/ɪmˈpɹɛʃn̩/印象
innovation 名詞/ˌɪn.əˈveɪ.ʃən/イノベーション, 革新
implementation 名詞/ˌɪmplɪmənˈteɪʃən/実施, 実用化
optimistic 形容詞/ˌɒptɪˈmɪstɪk/楽観的
partnership 名詞/ˈpɑɹtnɚʃɪp/パートナーシップ, 協力関係
trap 名詞/tɹæp/罠
invest 動詞/ɪnˈvɛst/投入する
explore 動詞/ɪkˈsploɹ/探検する
investor 名詞/ɪnˈvɛs.tə(ɹ)/投資家, 出資者
extent 名詞/ɪkˈstɛnt/程度
expand 動詞/ɪkˈspænd/広げる, 拡大する
sufficient/səˈfɪʃənt/最小限の

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come out 動詞/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/出る
point out 動詞指す, 指し示す
take off 動詞脱ぐ
find out 動詞見出す, 調べる
go away 動詞去る, 出る
go back 動詞戻る, 帰る
go up 動詞上がる, 登る
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