The Vietnamese army is conducting a live-fire exercise in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh, and according to experts, this move is in response to China’s aggressive behaviors. On April 8, news of a live-fire drill by the Vietnamese…
China’s aggressive actions to expand its power in the South China Sea in the past time have worried many Southeast Asian countries. The Director-General of the Indonesian Maritime Safety Authority recently announced that he would invite the maritime directors of…
For the leaders of Southeast Asia’s two biggest nations, Indonesia and the Philippines – two fledgling democracies in the grip of populism, each is unhappy in its own way. On the surface, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his Indonesian counterpart…
Four countries under the mechanism known as the Quads on March 12 had their first summit, with the participation of US President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison.…
A document declassified by the White House on Jan. 12 shows that Vietnam is among the countries in Southeast Asia that Washington wants to promote security cooperation in its Free and Open Indo-Pacific Strategy with the goal of containment of…
On the morning of January 8, 2020, the Higher People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City held the appeal hearing of four members of the unsanctioned group Hiến Pháp (Constitution) who appealed the verdict given by the People’s Court of…
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…
The 90-day suspension of Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung of the Hanoi People’s Committee for investigation of his involvement in three criminal cases is the focus of attention. The author CCB, a Communist Party member from Hanoi, has sent the following…
These days, the situation in the East Sea (South China Sea) has become hot in the international forum with successive moves of the parties involved in sovereignty disputes over the important international waters. Most recently, the US sent a diplomatic…
On May 27, the US Ambassador to Hanoi hosted an online discussion with special speaker Bonnie Glaser, Asia Senior Advisor and China Power Project Manager at the Center for Strategic and International Studues (CSIS) in Washington DC. The topic of…
