China has been using “gray zone” tactics, especially “People’s War at Sea” in realizing its expansion ambitions in the South China Sea (Vietnam calls it the East Sea). Ph.D. Alexander Vuving, a leading expert on East Sea and Asian security,…
US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel J. Kritenbrink said the US and Vietnam will work together to resolve disagreements over currency issues and logging operations in Vietnam, Bloomberg reported on April 7. Ambassador Kritenbrink said the disagreements are being handled “responsibly”…
Just five years ago, many were optimistic that Southeast Asia was finally at a turning point on the path to democracy. At the time, the Myanmar military finally relaxed its decades-long power as Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for…
One of the human rights trends that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken raised at the State Department’s release of its Annual Report on World Human Rights on March 30 is that authoritarian governments are using new technology to track…
The story of more than 200 Chinese ships outlined in Whitsun Reef has been the focus of international opinion over the past week, causing tensions in the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea), according to regional media.…
After successfully assuming the role of chairman of the UN Security Council for the term 2020-2021, Vietnam once again held this role in April 2021. Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao shared with the Laws of Ho Chi Minh City newspaper that:…
The democratic coalition quartet is strengthening under President Biden to counterbalance the rise of Chinese influence in the region and do Hanoi’s national security goals coincide with this quartet? The first meeting of the heads of state of the US,…
Israel is the second biggest arms supplier to Vietnam, after Russia, in 2019, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In addition to military cooperation, Israel is also one of the few countries that transfer technology for modern…
Billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong’s VinFast car company announced on its website on March 24 that it started selling Vietnam’s first smart electric car with the model name VF e34. Information from the company said that VF e34 applies artificial intelligence…
From the day Joe Biden entered the White House, Washington has maintained a tough stance towards Beijing and has clearly shown an interest in strengthening the US role in the Indo-Pacific region. Vietnam is said to be very pleased with…
China intensifies “gray–zone tactics” The recent event has caused many concerns when more than 200 Chinese marine militia ships were discovered near Ba Dau (Whitson Reef), a reef in the East Sea (South China Sea) that Vietnam also claims. The…
Vietnamese President Nguyen Phu Trong who is also the general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam has recently admitted that during his presidency, Vietnam sometimes failed to publicize the incidents in theEast Sea (South China Sea) due to…
Up to 488 international civil society organizations have just issued a joint statement expressing their disappointment at the UN Security Council’s lack of decisive action against the Myanmar military coup and the killings carried out by the Myanmar army. At…
The Philippines faces the threat of territorial encroachment from China Recently, the Philippines has criticized China’s “aggressive” actions after Beijing sent more than 200 ships to the South China Sea (Vietnam calls it the East Sea). Manila also asked Beijing…
The US-China dialogue ends in tense The first US-China dialogue since Biden took office ended in tension, mutual accusations by both sides and no joint statement has been made. Many people made different comments about China’s “diplomacy of warriors” with…
The Vietnamese government was named by international media as one of the four countries that prevented the United Nations (UN) from making a tough statement on Myanmar after the coup last month. Speaking to BBC News Vietnamese on March 18,…
Ms. Do Thi Thu, wife of activist Trinh Ba Phuong, has just confirmed to VOA that her husband has been transferred from a prison in Hanoi to the National Psychiatric Hospital 1 for psychiatric assessment because Mr. Phuong remained silent,…
Vietnamese-American lawmakers have simultaneously condemned the attack against Asians in Atlanta and called on the US government to take strong measures to tackle the Asian-American stigma that has existed for many years. “We need to hold all Americans accountable for…
In the trend of the world to step up the fight against climate change, many international corporations are withdrawing from coal power plant projects, which are considered to cause a lot of pollution and increase gas emissions. Vietnam’s coal power…
Entry control latch between Austria and Germany. Two trafficking rings organized by Vietnamese people in Europe were destroyed by the host authorities, one of whom was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sending Vietnamese victims of smuggling to work…
Four countries under the mechanism known as the Quads on March 12 had their first summit, with the participation of US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.…
Just before Trinh Xuan Thanh prepares to appear in court in Vietnam in a new trial on March 8, news of a “Cold War-style kidnapping in Berlin” surfaced in the media in Germany and Slovakia. As far as we know,…
Vietnam lost Gac Ma (South Johnson Reef) in the Truong Sa (Spratlys) to China 33 years ago, but there are still things that have not been clarified. What should Vietnam do to protect the sovereignty of the islands when China…
The Government of Vietnam says it has been and is ready to play a leading role, a pioneering role, and contribute to the work of the region and the world. But before discussing the international aspect, we should prioritize leading…
On March 8, 2021, the South China Morning Post newspaper had an article “China’s military must spend more to meet US’s war threat,” roughly translated as “China needs to increase defense spending to prepare for the risk of war with…
