The global political and security landscape viewed from the 2025 Munich Security Conference
Friday, April 11, 2025, 21:50 (GMT+7)
The 2025 Munich Security Conference took place against a backdrop of rapid and unpredictable changes in the global political and security landscape. The conference addressed numerous topics and issues related to current global security, indicating that the world is accelerating its transition from a unipolar to a multipolar order
A review of the global political and military landscape in 2024
Sunday, December 29, 2024, 14:44 (GMT+7)
In 2024, the global political and military landscape underwent significant changes due to the impacts of various hot spots, conflicts, and strategic competition among major powers, particularly the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, the escalating war in the Middle East, tensions on the Korean Peninsula, and increasing signs of US-China rivalry
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.
Rejecting the argument that “in essence, Ho Chi Minh’s ideology is nationalism”
Wednesday, September 20, 2023, 07:04 (GMT+7)
Throughout his revolutionary career, Ho Chi Minh consistently stood with the working class, and creatively applied and developed Marxist-Leninist principles in the reality of the revolution in Vietnam. His ideology is “an in-depth and comprehensive system of viewpoints on fundamental issues of the Vietnamese revolution; it is the result of the creative application and development of Marxism-Leninism in the specific condition of our country, it inherited and advanced the nation’s traditional values, and also absorbed the essence of human culture. It is an invaluable intellectual asset of our Party and People, forever guiding our people’s revolutionary cause to the ultimate victory, and completely distinct from the distorted allegations of nationalist ideology made by the hostile forces.
The Arctic as a place of great power competition
Saturday, September 24, 2022, 10:36 (GMT+7)
Although it is considered the second largest desert in the world after Antarctica, access to the Arctic promises many geopolitical and economic benefits to concerning countries because of its outstanding potential. Therefore, the competition for influence in this deserted region has been ongoing for decades and is getting fiercer.
Development of space weapons and risk of a space arms race
Wednesday, November 24, 2021, 06:48 (GMT+7)
During the Cold War, the U.S. conducted a research program to develop ground-based anti-satellite (ASAT) ballistic missiles with nuclear and conventional warheads. In fact, it has successfully tested the RIM-161 Standard Missile, capable of directly attacking low-earth orbit satellites. Currently, the U.S. is also testing missiles launched from a reusable X-37 space plane for destroying targets on earth
The U.S. and the Philippines repair treaty alliance
Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 08:22 (GMT+7)
US-Philippines relations, which have come under strain over the past 5 years, have apparently warmed again as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to fully restore the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the US of which he ordered revocation in February 2020. What caused their bilateral relations to turn sour and Manila to abruptly pivot back to Washington has drawn widespread attention
Military Party Committee and entire military continue to step up studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and lifestyle, building a strong military to meet new requirements and missions
Thursday, July 08, 2021, 09:51 (GMT+7)
The building of Viet Nam People’s Army (VPA), strengthening of national defence, protection of the Homeland, prevention and response to natural disasters, epidemics, pandemics, and nontraditional security place increasingly high demands, requiring the entire Party and people in general, the Military Party Committee and whole military in particular to continue to strictly implement Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW of the Politburo (13th tenure).
"Vietnamese modern poetry only has New Poetry and Young Poetry" - an absurd argument must be rejected
Monday, December 14, 2020, 06:55 (GMT+7)
In recent times, some people have stated that “Vietnamese modern poetry only has New Poetry and Young Poetry,” insisting that the poetry during the resistance wars against French colonialists and American imperialists was merely “illustrative” and “rustic.” These are not only an unfounded argument but also a worrying deviation as the result of “peaceful evolution” or “self-evolution,” which must be identified and excluded from cultural and social life
Criticising the idea to call for military alliances
Saturday, January 25, 2020, 11:49 (GMT+7)
Behind the seemingly impartial actions and deeds are great powers’ ambitions of strategic interests. This will lead to not only the destruction of socio-economic spaces, downgrading of development of the countries, but also civil wars, separation, destruction of the country, collapse of sovereign regimes and states, and risk of instability.