Vietnam
Vietnam Could Be America’s Next Great Trade Partner
The twenty-first century has been defined by deepening global economic interdependence, where the prosperity of nations increasingly depends on trade, investment, and secure supply chains that stretch across borders. This...
Xi’s Visit to Hanoi Reflects Vietnam’s Greatest Foreign Policy Challenge
During Chinese president Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam on December 12-13, China and Vietnam agreed to “build a community with a shared future that carries a strategic significance.” Before the...
Vietnam Rising: Will Hanoi Be the Next Indo-Pacific Power?
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and rising US–China trade tensions, Vietnam leapfrogged South Korea to become the United States’ sixth largest trade partner by import value in 2022. This jump represents an important...
Going Independent: Vietnam Diversifies Its Defense Ties
In late November, Vietnam announced that the Vietnam International Defence Expo will be held from December 8 to December 10 at Gia Lam airport in Hanoi. The International Defence Expo...
Coexistence or Confrontation? What Xi’s Third Term Means for Vietnam
After Xi Jinping was re-elected as the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) last month, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Nguyen Phu Trong, sent...
Trong Goes to China: Form or Substance?
The visit by Vietnam’s Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong to China deserves scrutiny—not just because the trip could affect Vietnam’s relations with China and the United States, but because...
Why Vietnam Took a Page Out of America’s Economic Playbook
You would be forgiven for thinking—and it would be all too understandable after the war—that the people of Vietnam are anti-American. Quite the contrary: the Vietnamese people admire economic success...
Popular Vietnamese Chef Arrested By Police After Posting Critical Video
Bui Tuan Lam, a Vietnamese noodle vendor who briefly gained nationwide fame after posting a viral video critical of a senior Communist Party official, was arrested on Thursday and charged...
Vietnam Is in Danger, But America Can Help
The Russian invasion of Ukraine offers a stark reminder of what sometimes awaits minor powers neighboring revisionist great powers. Russia’s invasion in late February 2022 shocked the world, but it...
China Has Forced Vietnam Into America’s Arms
The recently released ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Center annual State of Southeast Asia Report—which relies on survey data of business leaders, policymakers, and academics to get a snapshot of prevailing attitudes in...
Remembering The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: 50 Years Later
The first week of August marks not only the centenary of the guns of August 1914, but also the fiftieth anniversary of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was as near...
China and Vietnam Clash in the South China Sea
East Asia was stunned last week when the China National Offshore Oil Company (CNOOC) moved its most advanced drilling rig to a gas and oil block 120nm from the coast...