Great power competition in Indo-Pacific
Friday, August 16, 2024, 07:58 (GMT+7)
Overall assessment of great powers’ Indo-Pacific strategies reveals that despite their different expression, all great powers put the Indo-Pacific at the heart of global security and interests of each country. Accordingly, strategic competition among great powers in Indo-Pacific is a unique issue characterised by cooperation, deterrence, and containment.
Japan promotes the progress of Indo-Pacific strategy
Monday, July 29, 2024, 16:46 (GMT+7)
In response to the increasingly complex global security environment and cut-throat geopolitical competition, the Japanese government advocates not only strengthening defence capabilities, but also promoting Indo-Pacific strategy with a long-term vision. This new Tokyo-driven motive has drawn deep attention from international public opinion
Practical experience refutes distortion of “Vietnamese Bamboo Diplomacy”
Monday, July 22, 2024, 20:24 (GMT+7)
In recent years, the term “Vietnamese Bamboo Diplomacy” has been frequently mentioned when referring to the foreign activities of our Party and government. This term summarises and symbolises the foreign policy that the Communist Party of Vietnam has been persuing, based on President Ho Chi Minh’s diplomacy motto of “firm in objectives, flexible in strategies and tactics”.
Party’s new thinking on strengthening the relationship between national defence and security and foreign affairs in the Strategy for Homeland Protection
Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 08:48 (GMT+7)
As an essential and consistent mission of the Party, people, Army, and political system in their entirety, national defence and security and foreign affairs are fundamental matters of high significance to the fate of our nation and people. Therefore, strengthening the relationship between these aspects in the Strategy for Homeland Protection is a matter of high importance, reflecting the Party’s strategic thinking and vision. This issue needs to be thoroughly grasped for the sake of practical effectiveness
Review of the world political and military situation in 2023
Thursday, December 28, 2023, 10:53 (GMT+7)
The world political and military picture in 2023 is still mixed with light and dark colours, in which, strategic competition between major countries is still fierce, conflicts in regions continue to increase in intensity, scope and nature, etc. However, there are also many signs that the US and China are both showing efforts to control disagreements.
Vietnam, China issue joint statement
Wednesday, November 02, 2022, 14:14 (GMT+7)
Vietnam and China have issued a joint statement on continuing to promote and deepen the Vietnam-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership on the occasion of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s official visit to China from October 31 - November 1.
United States’ pivot towards Asia-Pacific Region – its results and prospects
Tuesday, February 22, 2022, 09:39 (GMT+7)
One of the most important strategic shift of the U.S. in the first decades of the 21st century is the Strategy to pivot towards the Asia-Pacific Region which is of special importance to the US global strategy. After 10 years, regardless of a number of successes, there are a lot of difficulties and challenges for Washington to realise that Strategy
EU’s Indo-Pacific Strategy
Saturday, July 24, 2021, 09:28 (GMT+7)
According to analysts, EU’s approval of the Indo-Pacific draft strategy will make it difficult for China to champion the position that maritime disputes in the region are only bilateral issues between China and other claimants; outsiders should not meddle in these issues. The strategy has direct influence on China’s goal to become a superpower because EU can involve itself in regional security and trade.
RCEP and its impacts on the Asia Pacific Region
Friday, January 15, 2021, 08:55 (GMT+7)
RCEP will not only create a favourable condition for its member states to work with one another effectively to overcome the economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but will serve as a victory of multilateralism and free trade over the emerging isolationism and anti-globalisation movement
Chemical Brigade 86 increases combat readiness capacity to meet its task requirements
Friday, May 29, 2020, 11:30 (GMT+7)
The Chemical Brigade 86 under the Chemical Corps is tasked with organising training, maintaining combat readiness, ensuring chemical support for operational and strategic combat, performing the A2 task, fighting terrorism, and settling chemical, biological, radioactive, nuclear, and environmental incidents and post-war toxic chemicals