Hanoi, April 16 -- Vietnamese Party General Secretary To Lam's article published in the People's Daily of China on the occasion of the state visit to Vietnam by Party General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping highlighted the strategic nature and historical depth of relations between the two countries, according to Chinese scholars. Prof. Xu Liping, Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS), emphasised that the article's prominent publication in the People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC), is a extremely important diplomatic gesture, clearly demonstrating the great importance the Vietnamese Party and State attach to Xi's trip. In his art...