India and Vietnam share suspicions of China, but their recent bilateral agreements do not suggest an aggressive attempt to counter Beijing. Vietnamese Communist Party General-Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong finished his trip to India on Nov. 21. The trip produced a number of memoranda of understanding, with Vietnam offering to give India exploration rights in five of its offshore hydrocarbon blocks, another in Uzbekistan that is controlled by Vietnam, and to let an Indian firm build a large thermal power plant. The two sides also promised to expand ties in areas as diverse as security and defense, law enforcement, scientific research and public administration. What is a Geopolitical Diary? George Friedman explains .