Chemical Corps steps up international integration and defence diplomacy in the new situation
Tuesday, December 09, 2025, 19:34 (GMT+7)
International integration and defence diplomacy constitute a strategic policy of the Party, State, and Ministry of National Defence, aiming to maintain peace and stability for national development and protect the Fatherland early and from afar. Hence, Chemical Corps’ Party Committee and Command have been synchronously adopting solutions to perform this important work according to their functions and missions
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.
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
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.
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.
Promoting Vietnam – Laos special tie to new heights
Monday, September 05, 2022, 14:42 (GMT+7)
Throughout the 60 years of glorious history, Vietnam and Laos have always been proud of their special relationship as comrades and brothers. This long-standing and pure relationship between the two Parties and countries becomes exemplary and “second to none”.
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.
Bringing into play its good results, the entire Military enhances defence diplomacy work to meet the requirements of national protection
Tuesday, April 12, 2022, 22:47 (GMT+7)
Defence diplomacy is part of national diplomacy, tasked with implementing the Party’s guidelines on protecting the Homeland from afar, preventing conflicts, settling all disputes by peaceful means, and making contributions to protecting national independence, sovereignty, unification, and territorial integrity and creating a peaceful, stable environment for national construction and protection
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.