Strategic competition among major powers in the Asia-Pacific region and implications for ASEAN
Monday, November 24, 2025, 15:14 (GMT+7)
According to international observers, the formation of the US-led sub-multilateral security mechanisms QUAD, AUKUS, and other "trilateral, quadrilateral" security cooperation mechanisms can increase the risk of US-China confrontation and affect ASEAN's centrality in the regional security structure as shown through ARF, ADMM, ADMM+, etc. The risk of "securitising" cooperation areas will increase with the increasing momentum of strategic competition between major powers.
On ASEAN cooperation in the field of Artificial Intelligence in defence sector
Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 08:07 (GMT+7)
ASEAN Defence Ministers' joint statement on cooperation in the field of AI in the defence sector serves as an important legal framework for ASEAN militaries to deepen collaboration in the research, development, and application of AI. However, achieving the intended goals will require greater concerted efforts from all ASEAN member countries to address the emerging challenges and difficulties
Liberation of the Spratly Islands: A strategic victory in the liberation of the South and national reunification
Saturday, April 19, 2025, 14:36 (GMT+7)
The victory of the liberation of the Spratly Islands in 1975 holds profound strategic significance. It not only contributed to the complete success of the Spring 1975 General Offensive and Uprising, which fully liberated the South and reunified the country, but also firmly affirmed Viet Nam’s sovereignty over the Spratly Islands.
Several major guidelines for defence diplomacy in 2025
Sunday, March 09, 2025, 08:56 (GMT+7)
Vietnam’s defence cooperation, particularly with neighbours, major powers, strategic partners, comprehensive partners, ASEAN members, and traditional friends, continued to be enhanced. Multilateral defence diplomacy was carried out flexibly, closely, effectively, thereby contributing to cementing international solidarity, building strategic trust, taking advantage of major powers’ support for Vietnam to safeguard its national interests in international forums
Enhancing international integration and defence diplomacy under the Party’s foreign lines
Friday, December 13, 2024, 15:41 (GMT+7)
The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence have carried out the work of international integration and defence diplomacy synchronously, comprehensively, effectively, achieving many significant results. The VPA has actively, proactively given advice to the Party and State on dealing with strategic issues relating to military - defence tasks, security, and border protection, well managing defence relations with other countries, particularly our neighbours, major powers, and strategic partners
Department of Search and Rescue Operations improves its capabilities in staff work, incident and natural disaster response and mitigation, search and rescue
Friday, August 09, 2024, 07:22 (GMT+7)
Incidents, catastrophes, natural disasters, and epidemics have been posing serious challenges to all countries; therefore, every nation places a top priority on incident, natural disaster, and epidemic mitigation. As for Vietnam, incident, catastrophe, natural disaster, and epidemic prevention and mitigation have been seen as a crucial, routine task of the entire Party, Military, people, and political system from Central to grass-roots levels
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”.
Building a strong Department of Foreign Relations to meet the requirements of international integration and defence diplomacy
Sunday, May 26, 2024, 21:18 (GMT+7)
As the leading competent office in charge of giving advice to the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the Ministry of National Defence (MND) on this important task, the Department of Foreign Relations has been adopting measures synchronously to make itself comprehensively strong and capable of satisfying its task requirements
Key tasks of international integration and defence diplomacy in 2024
Friday, March 08, 2024, 19:54 (GMT+7)
On grasping diplomatic guidelines and policies of the Party and State, international integration and defence diplomacy were carried out synchronously, actively, and proactively; recorded comprehensive achievements both bilaterally and multilaterally; continued to be one of the vital pillars of Party, State, and people-to-people diplomacy; and contributed to defence of the Fatherland from afar.
New approach of the US in its implementation of policies in South East Asia
Friday, June 23, 2023, 14:16 (GMT+7)
International researchers believe that, in the coming time, the US - ASEAN Comprehensive Strategic Partnership will be continuously boosted in the fields that the two sides concern, but the speed will partly depend on the relations among powerful countries in the region and the internal issues of the US.