‘Mr. Trong Goes to Beijing’: General Secretary Trong’s Beijing Visit Affirms Vietnamese Balancing Act with China
Between October 30 and November 2, Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong visited Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in a decorous...
ASEAN-US Summit: Vietnam and the United States Place a High Value on Their Partnership
In mid-May, the United States hosted eight of the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states (leaders did not invite Myanmar while...
How the Vietnamese History Constrains its Policy Choices Today
Recently, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Center released its annual State of Southeast Asia Report that, among other things, found Vietnamese distrust of China remains very high....
Are There Any Consequences to China’s Growing Unpopularity in Southeast Asia?
As China grows, so too does its ambition to regain its historical status as the hegemon of Asia. It employs economic coercion, territorial expansion,...