Vietnam

Jakarta’s proposed defense ties with Beijing risk upsetting ASEAN’s fragile balance.

Resources, nationalism, and domestic audiences are pushing Vietnam and the Philippines towards confrontation with China.

Questions remain over how the Scarborough Shoal standoff will finally be resolved. But recent events should have reassured China’s leaders that hard power isn’t always necessary.

New Chinese oil block announcements for the South China Sea are set to ruffle feathers.

Vietnamese bloggers are increasingly driving the news agenda in the country. More robust reporting will be good for Vietnam’s development.

The optimism during Vietnam’s pre-2008 economic boom is over. The Communist Party knows it must take action. But it doesn’t seem to know what.

China doesn’t want a military conflict over the Scarborough Shoal. A clash now would only unite ASEAN.

The U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea is as much as anything else about fundamental disagreements between the U.S. and China. The U.S. shouldn’t sign up.

A number of prominent Vietnamese break new ground in backing the Philippines in the Scarborough Shoal row.

China’s combination of fishing boats, unarmed law-enforcement ships, and military power allows Beijing to act as a provocateur – and to use small stick diplomacy.

The ongoing standoff between the Philippines and China raises troubling questions about the response to Chinese territorial assertiveness in the South China Sea.

The Republic of China maintains sweeping claims to the South China Sea. But is it needlessly alienating much-needed potential friends?