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Vietnam’s Evolving Strategy in a Challenging Indo-Pacific

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Vietnam’s Evolving Strategy in a Challenging Indo-Pacific
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Vietnam’s Evolving Strategy in a Challenging Indo-Pacific

Tô Lâm in Australia and the limits of strategic autonomy

By: Khanh Vu Duc

Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Tô Lâm’s visit to Australia and New Zealand may look like routine diplomacy. It is better understood as a marker of Hanoi’s evolving strategy in a more contested Indo-Pacific.

Vietnam is not abandoning its “Four No’s” defense policy, nor is it preparing to align formally against China. Instead,…

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Source: jawawa.id (https://jawawa.id/newsitem/vietnams-evolving-strategy-in-a-challenging-indo-pacific-1786675815)
Originally published by Asia Sentinel (https://www.asiasentinel.com/p/vietnam-evolving-strategy-challenging-indo-pacific)
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