Bayan Shugaba Bill Clinton ya ziyarci Vietnam a shekara ta 2000, wani sabon zamanin Vietnam ya fara.^[231] Vietnam ta zama wuri mai ban sha'awa ga ci gaban tattalin arziki.A tsawon lokaci, Vietnam ta taka muhimmiyar rawa a matakin duniya.sauye-sauyen tattalin arzikinta sun canza al'ummar Vietnam sosai tare da haɓaka dacewar Vietnamanci a cikin al'amuran Asiya da na duniya baki ɗaya.Har ila yau, saboda dabarun siyasar yankin Vietnam kusa da mahadar tekun Pasifik da Indiya, da yawa daga cikin manyan kasashen duniya sun fara daukar matsayi mai kyau ga Vietnam.Duk da haka, Vietnam kuma tana fuskantar takaddama, galibi tare da Cambodia game da kan iyakarsu, musamman ma da China, kan tekun Kudancin China.A cikin 2016, Shugaba Barack Obama ya zama shugaban Amurka na 3 da ya ziyarci Vietnam.Ziyarar tasa mai tarihi ta taimaka wajen daidaita dangantaka da Vietnam.Wannan ci gaban da aka samu na dangantakar Amurka da Vietnam ya kara karuwa ne bayan dage takunkumin hana sayar da makamai da aka yi mata, wanda ya baiwa gwamnatin Vietnam damar sayen muggan makamai da kuma zamanantar da sojojinta.^[232] Ana sa ran Vietnam za ta zama sabuwar ƙasa mai ci gaban masana'antu, da kuma, ikon yanki a nan gaba.Vietnam na ɗaya daga cikin ƙasashe goma sha ɗaya na gaba.^[233]