Vietnam

A conversation with author Will Chickering.

The Chinese leader will this week visit Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia, where he will attempt to contrast China's steady economic engagement with the volatility of the current U.S. administration.

The reforms are part of a drive to make the country's political system "lean, compact, strong, efficient, effective, and impactful.”

The Trump administration claims that Vietnam's lopsided trade surplus with the U.S. has been inflated by fraudulently rerouted goods from China.

The country’s economic response to the tariffs will be guided by its multilateral and diversified foreign policy approach.

Vietnam and Thailand say they are open to negotiations with Washington, but will also seek to diversify their export markets away from the U.S.

Southeast Asia is an especially appealing strategic frontier in Moscow’s dream of a multipolar world. But the reality of Russian engagement in the region is complicated.

The Chinese leader will visit Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia at a time of great uncertainty about the course of U.S. policy toward the region.

Insights from Nguyen Khac Giang 

Vietnamese policymakers are hoping to preempt U.S. concerns about its lopsided trade surplus with the United States.

The Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative estimates that Hanoi has created 641 new acres of land in the disputed Spratly Islands since June.

The Trump administration has a golden opportunity to improve its relationship with a key Southeast Asian partner.

Data is the oil of the 21st century, and Southeast Asia risks pumping its reserves into foreign tanks. The need for the region to develop its own technological infrastructure has never been more pressing.

The involvement of an extra-regional great power in a small power’s territorial disputes with China may prove counterproductive.

The upgrade came three days after Vietnam similarly elevated Indonesia to the highest tier in its diplomatic hierarchy.

The past three years have seen a significant expansion in Vietnam's relations with its major regional and global partners.

Over the past three years, the Vietnamese government has established Comprehensive Strategic Partnerships with nine nations.

More undergraduates from one of the world’s five remaining communist states were opposed to the redistribution of wealth through taxes than their peers in uber-capitalist Singapore or Malaysia.

Communist Party chief To Lam is reversing a decades-long trend of growing legislative involvement in Vietnamese policy-making.

As the Trump administration flirts with a global trade war, the areas of shared interest between the EU and ASEAN are becoming ever more clear.

Truong Huy San, who is better known by the pen name Huy Duc, was convicted of "abusing democratic freedoms."

New Zealand has become the 10th nation, and the seventh in the past three years, to be promoted to the top tier of Vietnam's diplomatic hierarchy.

The project is expected to reinforce the already strong economic linkages between northern Vietnam and southern China.