Conversations on Vietnam Development
9-10-2025 – Nguyễn Đình Đức
Tiasang – Năm 2025 đánh dấu 30 năm Việt Nam tham dự ASEAN và năm năm tới, Việt Nam dự kiến sẽ trở thành chủ tịch tổ chức khu vực này. Việt Nam có thể làm gì để đưa sự gắn kết trong khu vực lên một nấc thang mới?
The key question is whether ASEAN can make a constructive and meaningful contribution to resolving its own internal divisions, let alone to influencing the behavior of China and the United States. Such outcomes may be unlikely but not impossible if the ASEAN states can develop a coherent, continuing, and collective response to the challenges they face.
Mark Beeson Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 2, Issue 1, January 2022, ksab044, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksab044 Published: 21 January 2022 Article history
PUBLISHED 16 FEB 2022
The US has gained ground against China in the contest for regional influence in Southeast Asia, according to the latest State of Southeast Asia Survey. ASEAN continues to be seen as ineffective in the eyes of respondents; at the same time, they are willing to give it credit when it is due.
The United States is gaining significant ground against China in the battle to win friends and influence countries, with respondents across Southeast Asia confident that Washington would be able to lead on issues such as championing free trade and upholding the rules-based regional order.
A fresh reading of The State of Southeast Asia Survey also showed that pressing issues — the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment and economic retraction as well as climate change – continue to be prioritised by respondents. In their view, however, ASEAN is seen as too slow and ineffective to cope with rapid developments.
Tiếp tục đọc “2022 State of Southeast Asia Survey: Diverse Perspectives and Hard Realities”
29 December 2021 Author: Amitav Acharya, American University
Southeast Asia is no stranger to strategic competition. But its ‘new geopolitics’ is different from those that existed during the Cold War.
In fighting communism, the United States extended its security umbrella to the region. This gave ASEAN members breathing space and allowed them to focus on economic growth and domestic stability. It also stimulated unity among Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines due to fear of being entangled in great power intervention. Aid and investment from Japan, a US ally and Asia’s then fastest rising economy, helped industrialise several Southeast Asian countries.
Now, China has displaced Japan as Asia’s largest economy and ASEAN’s largest trade partner. China’s GDP today is more than five times that of ASEAN’s combined. It spends five times more on defence. Unlike the Soviet Union, China is Southeast Asia’s immediate neighbour — a dragon breathing down its neck.
Tiếp tục đọc “ASEAN and the new geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific”
Sáng nay (8/7), tại Hà Nội, Bộ Quốc phòng tổ chức hội nghị trực tuyến Chính sách an ninh Diễn đàn khu vực ASEAN (ASPC). Thượng tướng Nguyễn Chí Vịnh, Thứ trưởng Bộ Quốc phòng, Trưởng SOM Việt Nam chủ trì.
Tham gia hội nghị có đại diện 26 nước đối tác trong khuôn khổ ARF, ban thư ký ASEAN. Tiếp tục đọc “Nhiều nước lên tiếng về Biển Đông tại diễn đàn an ninh khu vực”
ASEAN member nations should continue intensifying cooperation, sharing information about the sea situation, and abiding by international law
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| Top diplomats meet at the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Retreat (AMM Retreat) in Singapore on February 6, 2018. Photo: Vietnam News Agency |
Vietnam has mentioned the situation in the East Vietnam Sea during a special meeting between ASEAN officials in Singapore this week.
The ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) Retreat was organized in the city-state on Tuesday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
Authorized by General Ngo Xuan Lich, Vietnam’s Minister of National Defense, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh, his deputy, led a delegation of high-ranking officials to attend the meeting. Tiếp tục đọc “East Vietnam Sea issue brought up during ASEAN defense minister meeting”
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