China’s policy on the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea) became more aggressive after Xi Jinping became China’s highest leader in November 2012. We can gauge the magnitude of this aggression by considering how, after coming to…
The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is scheduled to take place in January 2021. About 1,600 delegates nationwide will elect the new Party Central Committee of 180 members. In addition to the difficulty in electing…
Vietnam-US warm relations US National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien just visited Hanoi on November 20-22. According to the announcement of the Vietnamese side, this visit is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the US-Vietnam diplomatic relations and to highlight…
China’s revised Coast Guard bill gives the country’s Coast Guard forces the right to use state-of-the-art weapons to destroy ships of foreign countries encroaching on China’s waters. Returning to Saigon from an international seminar on the East Sea (South China…
Vietnam and other countries participating East Asian Summit did not mention territorial sea disputes in the South China Sea in the Hanoi Declaration in the context of the ASEAN countries focusing on trade and the COVID-19 pandemic, with the conclusion…
Half a year has passed since Vietnam played the rotating role of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – ASEAN. Will Vietnam take this opportunity to further promote consensus in the bloc, especially in the issue of disputes in the…
While Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh once said in April this year that Vietnam knew who was its best friend, who was just a partner … implying China’s continuous violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China…
Vietnam’s Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh responded to a Chinese representative’s speech at an online conference of senior defense officials in the region, saying that the East Sea (South China Sea) issue was causing “concerned” but not “reassuring us.”…
The simultaneous exercise of China on the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea, and the South China Sea (East Sea) as well as the tension of border conflicts with India raises a lot of serious thoughts on China’s strategy and…
Just two days after the 36th ASEAN Summit issued a statement expressing concern about the complicated situation in the East Sea (South China Sea), the China Maritime Safety Administration announced the military exercise around the Hoang Sa (Paracels) on July…
