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.

The world through the new Concept of the Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation

Tuesday, June 13, 2023, 07:34 (GMT+7)
According to international analysists, the new Concept of Foreign Policy of the Russian Federation aims not only to build a powerful, friendly, responsible country of the international community, but also to strive for a new multipolar, multicentre world order based on the UN Charter – a world where nations regardless of their size, strength, and level of development are mutually respected.

Overview of power competition in Africa

Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 11:40 (GMT+7)
Cooperation and competition among countries, regional and international integrity are an inevitable rule in the trend of globalisation, and the motivation for countries to enhance the socio-economic development, assure the national defence and security. Therefore, all countries, the powerful ones in particular, should make equal cooperation and competition, co-development, avoid turning competitions into conflicts for their own benefits and conspiracy, which could endanger the security, stability and development in Africa particularly and in the world generally.

EU's new approach to the Asia-Pacific region

Wednesday, May 11, 2022, 06:44 (GMT+7)
Recently, in the face of the increasingly intense competition of major powers in the Asia-Pacific region, the EU has taken a new approach to this region through the “Global Gateway” strategy. The strategy is a set of plans with the goal of promoting economic and foreign policy development; at the same time, ensuring the interests, security as well as values of Europe in the region.

US-China strategic competition in Latin America

Wednesday, December 15, 2021, 08:17 (GMT+7)
In the past two decades, there have been significant changes in major powers’ relations in Latin America. While US gave priority to the global war on terrorism and is being trapped in the Middle East and North Africa, China has gradually expanded its influence in Latin America, challenging US’s dominant position right in its hemisphere

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.

A look back on the world’s political - military situation in the first two decades of the 21st century

Monday, May 31, 2021, 09:11 (GMT+7)
Despite any development in the world’s political-military situation, Viet Nam will remain steadfastness in its foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation, and development as well as the diplomatic guidelines on diversifying and multilateralising its external relations in order to protect national interests based on the basic principles of the UN Charter and international law, especially the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea

Future path of US-Iranian relations

Sunday, May 23, 2021, 06:48 (GMT+7)
In the short run, President Joe Biden’s administration is highly likely to keep the policy of “maximum pressure” through economic sanctions in order to weaken Iran. The US will also strengthen cooperation with European allies and other parties concerned, including Russia and China, to impose pressure on Iranian nuclear issue.

Strategies of some major powers and implications for national defence and security of the region and Viet Nam

Tuesday, May 18, 2021, 15:25 (GMT+7)
Strategic competition between some developed economies will promote cooperation in both depth and width, which creates a favourable environment for Viet Nam in many aspects, including economic development, defence and security consolidation, and increased position in the international arena. However, this rivalry also results in many disadvantages, producing nagative effects on Viet Nam’s national defence and security.

Risk of widened Eurasian arc of instability

Wednesday, April 28, 2021, 07:55 (GMT+7)
Over the past few years, major powers have escalated competition for expanding influence in part of the Eurasia. Nevertheless, due to the rise of globalisation, strategic competition within a broad space spreading from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean becomes increasingly fierce, which leads to the formation of an arc of instability. In fact, this arc covers a wide geographical area and is divided into subregions, including the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, East Europe, West Europe, Caucasus, and Arctic.