Global and regional political and security landscape from the perspective of the 2026 Shangri-La Dialogue
Saturday, July 18, 2026, 11:43 (GMT+7)
All presentations and discussions at the Forum highly agreed with the assessment that the global political and security situation is emerging with three fundamental crises including the international order, the development model, and strategic trust.
Vigilance against the rhetoric of “neutralising” the Military in international integration
Monday, June 15, 2026, 14:09 (GMT+7)
In the context of deepening international integration and defence diplomacy, Vietnam has continuously expanded cooperation, actively participated in multilateral mechanisms, promoted dialogue, built strategic trust, and enhanced its international position. Taking advantage of this process, hostile forces have intensified the propaganda promoting the rhetoric of “neutralising” the Military with sophisticated interpretations that easily breed misconceptions.
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
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”.
The entire military undertakes innovation and creativeness to successfully complete military, defence missions in 2023
Friday, February 10, 2023, 09:45 (GMT+7)
2023 is a pivotal year to implement the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress and the Resolution of the 11th Military Party Congress. It is also the year when the VPA has to adjust its organisation seriously. The entire military needs to proactively surmount difficulties, resolutely strive for making new leaps forward, and better accomplish their missions as compared to 2022, contributing to maintenance of a peaceful, stable environment for the building and development of the country and firm protection of the Vietnam socialist Fatherland in the new situation.
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
Shangri-La Dialogue 2019 - the region’s security issues and Vietnam’s contributions
Monday, July 22, 2019, 05:56 (GMT+7)
Asia’s Security Summit - the 18th Shangri-La Dialogue was held in Singapore from May 31st to June 2nd 2019 amidst the complex developments of the security situation in the world and the region, which necessitated the regional countries in particular, the international community in general discussing and seeking the solutions. At the Dialogue, Vietnam proposed many important initiatives which were highly appreciated by the international community
Shangri-La Dialogue: Vietnamese Defence Minister calls for peaceful solutions to disputes
Monday, June 03, 2019, 11:17 (GMT+7)
Vietnamese Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich called on parties concerned to work together to solve disputes in peaceful atmosphere, with partnership spirit and for community responsibility while addressing the fifth plenary session of the 18th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on June 2
Vietnam’s status negates all distortions
Saturday, April 27, 2019, 18:11 (GMT+7)
One of the acts of sabotage by the hostile forces is to distort and negate the achievements in the renewal cause led by the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). However, Vietnam’s increasingly high status in the international arena disproves all those distortions
10 notable defence-military events around the globe in 2018
Saturday, January 05, 2019, 06:55 (GMT+7)
In 2018, the world witnessed historic dialogues and intense strategic competition between major powers. To depict the world in 2018, the National Defence Journal would like to introduce 10 notable defence-military events