This article is devoted to the study of the characteristic features of intercultural dialogue on the example of France and its former colonies in Indochina (Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam), study of the main areas of cooperation and to the analysis of the French cultural heritage in these countries. Building an intercultural dialogue is one of the main directions of cultural diplomacy, which acquires considerable importance in the realities of the 21st century, when the “soft power” in the policy of states gradually displaces traditional hard power from the mechanisms of the formation of the world political system.