China’s policy on the South China Sea (Vietnamese call it the East Sea) became more aggressive after Xi Jinping became China’s highest leader in November 2012. We can gauge the magnitude of this aggression by considering how, after coming to…
The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) is scheduled to take place in January 2021. About 1,600 delegates nationwide will elect the new Party Central Committee of 180 members. In addition to the difficulty in electing…
Vietnam-US warm relations US National Security Advisor Robert C. O’Brien just visited Hanoi on November 20-22. According to the announcement of the Vietnamese side, this visit is to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the US-Vietnam diplomatic relations and to highlight…
Diplomatic missions of two of the world’s leading powers located in the Vietnamese capital have recently spoken on their official Facebook pages, revolving around the views of the Communist Party of China (CPC). On November 20, the Facebook page of…
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which Vietnam just signed on November 15, 2020, in Hanoi, is the third largest multilateral free trade agreement that the country is a party to, after the CPTPP agreement and more recently EVFTA with…
Military drills and missile shootings The summer of 2020 saw strong activity by both the US and Chinese navies in the East Sea (South China Sea). Two groups of US aircraft carriers operated together in the South China Sea at…
China’s revised Coast Guard bill gives the country’s Coast Guard forces the right to use state-of-the-art weapons to destroy ships of foreign countries encroaching on China’s waters. Returning to Saigon from an international seminar on the East Sea (South China…
China can take advantage of the signed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP ) to achieve its strategic goals in the region, including as a springboard for its Belt and Road Initiative, according to a senior economist from Vietnam. Talking to…
Since winning more than 270 electoral votes, President-elect Joe Biden has contacted leaders of allied countries, pledging to mend partnerships that have been dented over the past few years, and reasserted the US’s commitment to mutual security agreements which have…
Recently, on social media, news about former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Ho Thi Kim Thoa circulated on social media that she was arrested in France and was about to be sent back to Vietnam to take responsibility for…
Vietnam and other countries participating East Asian Summit did not mention territorial sea disputes in the South China Sea in the Hanoi Declaration in the context of the ASEAN countries focusing on trade and the COVID-19 pandemic, with the conclusion…
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) trade agreement signed between the ASEAN bloc and five partner countries in the region in which Vietnam officially participates after the event on November 15, 2020, has dual factors, advantages, and disadvantages associated with…
10 ASEAN members and 5 countries have signed a large-scale free trade agreement promising to accelerate the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic. The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) was signed online after 8 years of negotiation. RCEP is comprised of…
The 37th ASEAN Summit was opened on November 12 The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is one of the most expected results at this event. Initially, there were 16 countries participating in the RCEP negotiations, but by November 2019, India…
China on November 4, 2020, publicly released a draft amendment to allow its China Coast Guard to use weapons in waters that Beijing considers under China’s jurisdiction. According to political observers, the Chinese National People’s Congress will approve it during…
Opinions about the experiences of Vietnam-origin entrepreneurs and the Vietnamese government can be drawn from Trinh Vinh Binh’s case. “This is a cross-century lawsuit, its implications are not only that Vietnam has lost, but many legal aspects and many different…
Fireworks display to celebrate the victory of Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election on November 7. The Vietnamese people reacted differently to the results of the US presidential election, in which Mr. Donald Trump loved by many…
Over the past few weeks, social networks have been flooded with comments and pictures of the two US presidential candidates. One Republican is incumbent President Donald Trump and another is former Vice President Joe Biden. Meanwhile, the information about the…
Vietnamese people in the country are more interested in the US election than their own, that is a reality. Because the American election is attractive and unpredictable because President Trump has rekindled the Vietnamese hope of resisting the unreserved Chinese…
Many social activists and relatives of journalist Pham Doan Trang said that Cong An Nhan Dan newspaper is trying to discourage and distort the truth about an “object” that unfortunately falls into their sights in the new article about Pham…
Never before have the Vietnamese been divided by an American president like today. The attitude of support or against the 45th president of the US has been a subject of controversy between the Vietnamese people to a degree as much…
According to the AAPI statistics in the US, in the Vietnamese American community, 48% support President Trump and 36% support Mr. Joe Biden, and 16% have not decided. However, statistics in Vietnam show that up to 80% of Vietnamese support…
The newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), the people of the party in the past keep praising themselves “the will of the Party, the heart of the People” to show that the people have a faith in the…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made an official visit to Vietnam on October 29-30, according to Vietnamese media this week. Whether this is a “surprise” visitor is part of a pre-planned visit and what is the real purpose behind…
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo just ended his last Asia’s tour to Vietnam on October 30, in which he repeatedly sent a message calling for Asian countries to cooperate with the US in dealing with security threats posed by…
