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.
ASEAN in the context of strategic competition among major powers in Southeast Asia
Sunday, September 18, 2022, 06:56 (GMT+7)
The competition for influence among the major powers in Southeast Asia is increasingly fierce and unpredictable. Due to differences in strategic interests and relationship, many factors arise in this competition that impact Southeast Asia’s peace and stability requiring each country to come up with reasonable solutions and policies.
A snapshot of the amendments to the U.S defence policies toward Indo-Pacific region
Thursday, June 23, 2022, 08:37 (GMT+7)
Indo-Pacific is given top priority by the U.S since this has been the most “dynamically developing” region with a fast-growing market across the globe, especially in the presence of the world’s leading economies.
Indo-Pacific Region in major powers’ strategies
Tuesday, March 29, 2022, 07:50 (GMT+7)
The Indo-Pacific accounts for more than half of the world population, with rich natural resources and sea routes of paramount importance to international trade. This is a region of dynamic development with three top economies of the world, namely the U.S., China, and Japan together with 7 out of 8 fast-growing markets, such as India, China, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). This region produces about 60% of global GDP
Vietnam strengthens ties with neighbours to raise country status
Friday, March 25, 2022, 08:37 (GMT+7)
Based on its correct assessments and forecasts of the world situation and the characteristics of international relations and integration, our Party advocates “developing Vietnam’s cooperative, friendly, traditional relations with neighbouring countries,” underlining that in the upcoming time it is necessary to deepen neighbourliness and especially bilateral ties in all fields, on all scales, and at all levels
Naval Zone 2 improves its synergy to firmly protect national sovereignty over seas and islands
Thursday, March 10, 2022, 09:04 (GMT+7)
Firmly protecting national sovereignty over seas and islands is the task of the entire Party, Military, people, and political system, with the people’s armed forces including Naval Zone 2 playing a core role. To successfully fulfil this important mission, Naval Zone 2’s Party Committee and Command have concentrated their leadership and direction on adopting synchronous, effective measures to raise the Zone’s synergy
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
10 notable military-defence events of the world in 2021
Thursday, January 06, 2022, 10:19 (GMT+7)
In 2021, the world situation continued to witness both negative and positive developments. COVID-19 pandemic, strategic competition, trade war, conflicts, subversion, and disputes over sovereignty and territories were extremely intense and negatively impacted on the world’s economy and social life. The following are 10 notable military-defence events selected and introduced by National Defence Journal
The world's major military and political shifts in 2021
Monday, December 27, 2021, 10:08 (GMT+7)
U.S military policy under Biden’s administration is shaped and implemented basing on the “Interim National Security Strategic Guidance” released on 3 March, 2021 which predicted that US is confronting changes in world power balance with growing competition from China and Russia who are pursuing their influences on regional and international scales
“Asian NATO” and its implications for ASEAN
Monday, October 25, 2021, 09:23 (GMT+7)
In spite of the fact that the Quad is currently just a cooperative mechanism between the countries sharing common viewpoints and interests in the Indo-Pacific Region, it is probable that in the future this organisation will become a military alliance like a NATO in Asia - in other words, “Asian NATO”