据悉，前段时间越南对美企的“欢迎”让西方颇为兴奋，今年3月越南外长裴青山访问美国并会见了美国务卿布林肯、白宫国家安全顾问沙利文等人，并向美国投去了橄榄枝。

二 | 他表示越南在半导体、重要矿物和人工智能等领域拥有潜力，可以帮助西方在多元化供应链领域发挥作用。    Manila, Oct 21 (UNI) Manila will seek to have at least some of the reported $32m Russian helicopter deal down payment refunded by Moscow.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has said his country will source military helicopters from the United States after scrapping a $215m deal to buy 16 similar heavy-lift helicopters from Russia over fears of sanctions following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, reports BBC.
Manila will also seek to have Moscow return at least part of a multimillion-dollar deposit for the now-cancelled batch of Russian Mi-17 helicopters, Marcos Jr said on Thursday, in his first public comments on the touchy issue involving Russia.
“We have secured an alternative supply (for heavy-lift helicopters) from the United States,” Marcos Jr, who was elected president in May, said at a business forum.
“Unfortunately, we made a down payment (to the Russian manufacturer) that we are hoping to negotiate to get at least a percentage of that back,” he said.
“But the deal as it stood maybe at the beginning of or in the middle of last year has already been cancelled.”
On Wednesday, the Russian ambassador to the Philippines, Marat Pavlov, told the local media that his government had not been officially informed of the contract cancellation and considered the helicopter deal valid.
Production continued on fulfilling the order to deliver the Mi-17s, the ambassador said, adding that one had been ready for delivery since June.
The government of Marcos Jr’s predecessor Rodrigo Duterte signed the deal with Moscow in November 2021, but Duterte backed out of the agreement in the months following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February and the imposition of wide-ranging sanctions on Russia.
Marcos did not specify which US helicopters were chosen as the alternative to the Mi-17s, only that they will be manufactured in Poland.
The Philippine ambassador in Washington, Jose Romualdez, told reporters in August that Manila was looking at Chinooks to replace the Mi-17s.
The Boeing CH-47 Chinook could be the possible replacement for the Mi-17s, which the Philippines requires for combat missions, search and rescue, and medical evacuation, the ambassador said at the time.
The US deal – which matched the price agreed with Russia – would also include maintenance services and parts, terms that were not included in the deal with Russia, defence officials told local media organisation GMA News.
UNI MR。越南也向欧盟企业发出橄榄枝，欢迎这些国家来到国内投资。

这原本只是普通的贸易行为，却让欧盟浮想联翩。在和越南进行沟通之后，欧委会决定趁热打铁派对俄制裁事务最高官员奥沙利文访问越南。这一举动非常明了：西方希望利用越南政府对欧美投资的渴望，商量对俄罗斯制裁问题。

三 | 越南对外奉行中立的外交政策。在俄乌冲突上，越南没有谴责俄罗斯，也没有对俄制裁过；所以奥沙利文很可能是劝告越南：只要和俄罗斯划清界限或是直接制裁，就能得到西方市场的青睐。

但此时越南做出了一个特别的举动，让欧盟颇为气愤。9日路透社爆料越南政府准备迎接俄罗斯总统普京可能的访问，因为这一日期或与奥沙利文的访问存在重合，越南推迟了下周与欧盟负责对俄制裁事务最高官员的会晤，理由是“无暇会见”。随即驻越南代表团发布声明，称会谈被推迟“令人失望”；他们还表示正在和越南商量继续会晤的新日期，目前还没有确定下来。消息人士认为欧盟不排除因为这件事“无限推迟”访问时间，暗示可能取消会见。

分析人士表示，在欧盟制裁俄罗斯官员和普京“二选一”问题上，越南是毫不犹豫选了后者，还给了欧盟一个非常难堪的方式。其一是因为越南对制裁根本没什么兴趣，奥沙利文的“明牌”来访自然会引起反感——这几乎是强迫游说越南和俄罗斯翻脸划清界限的。其二是因为历史原因，越南从苏联时代和俄罗斯长期以来关系一直较好，双方贸易往来频繁，自然不可能因为想获得西方投资就选择对俄制裁。

四 | 再者而言，越南只是表达对西方投资的兴趣，没有提及他们欢迎“有条件投资”。

值得一提的还有，观察人士提出一个假设：在越南如此直白拒绝欧盟代表的情况下，他们可能会遭到欧美双方的冷遇。因为美国对其投资自然也不是毫无回报的，美方要求越南减少对中国的依赖，他们的目标不是俄罗斯，但中越之间贸易关系也非常稳固。对此有评论称：“欧盟将其看得非常重要，他们认为自己投资哪里，就必须受到高人一等的优待，这是典型的自娱自乐。他们现在的经济10年后自保都困难，还想以此当做资本收买人心，看起来并不靠谱。”