By now, it has been widely accepted that Vietnam has mastered the art of not choosing its foreign relations. Geopolitically speaking, Vietnam has refused to side with either China or the United States in their growing great-power competition. It is also the only country that hosted visits from both Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President … Read more
Vietnam’s government has listed two overseas-based political groups as “terrorist organizations,” accusing them of fomenting violence and encouraging secession in the country’s Central Highlands. According to Vietnamese state media reports, which cited a statement from the Ministry of Public Security, the groups are the Montagnard Support Group Inc (MSGI), which is based in the United … Read more
Podcasts | Politics | Oceania A conversation with Mylinh Lee, who arrived in Australia in a boat as a child and a refugee. Credit: Photo SuppliedAdvertisement In 1979, Mylinh Lee arrived in Australia as a child, by boat and as a refugee. More than four decades later she is a public relations specialist in Melbourne where she is also … Read more
The Debate | Opinion Pro-Russian netizens in Vietnam are pointing out the apparent U.S. hypocrisy on cluster munitions and human rights. Cluster bombs on display at the COPE Visitor Centre in Vientiane, Laos, January 2, 2015. Credit: Flickr/Mario Micklisch Advertisement The recent decision by the United States to transfer cluster munitions to Ukraine has sparked a wave … Read more
Advertisement In the half-century since the withdrawal of the last U.S. troops from Vietnam, the two former enemies have evolved into de facto strategic partners, driven together by shared concerns about the power of a rising China. But many of the scars from the long U.S. intervention in Vietnam remain, and each step toward normalization … Read more