For fear of a negative US reaction, Hanoi stayed out from SPIEF 2023, one of the world’s largest business forums. The 26th annual St. Petersburg International Economic Forum concluded on June 17 in Russia, with the goal of building commercial partnerships and expanding contacts with trading partners. Participants in SPIEF 2023 have begun to develop…
The only opponent against which Vietnam’s Russian-supplied military equipment might realistically be used is China, with whom it contests part of the South China Sea. The example of their growing defense ties therefore shatters not only the Mainstream Media’s false claim that Russia is China’s junior partner, but also the Alt-Media Community’s false impression that…
On February 7, 2023 a very significant event occurred, in the author’s opinion. The Seoul Central District Court ruled in favor of Nguyen Thi Thanh, a Vietnamese woman seeking compensation from the ROK government. Nguyen claimed that she lost five family members and suffered gunshot wounds herself when members of the Republic of Korea’s 2nd…
The resignation of Vietnam’s President Nguyen Xuan Phuc a fortnight ago had an inevitability about it. The media was rife with speculation for weeks implicating Phuc’s close family members in corruption scandals. Several dozen officials, including two deputy prime ministers, were earlier removed from their positions in major scandals of price fixing and kickbacks for…
Vietnamese-Indian relations remain an important axis of South-South cooperation that deserves to be followed more closely by intrepid observers going forward since these two states are crucial regional nodes of the emerging new Non-Aligned Movement (“Neo-NAM”) that’ll come to play a greater role in the future. Vietnam doesn’t usually come to mind right away when…
On July 12, Israel and Vietnam marked the 29th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and emphasized in official statements that there is great potential for the further development of economic and diplomatic cooperation that could bring significant benefits to both sides. Vietnam, as you know, is a member of the Association of Southeast…
