Strategy and Evolution of Vietnam's China Policy: A Changing Mixture of Pathways

2006/11/01 by Alexander L. Vuving
Social Sciences · #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

paper · doi:10.1525/as.2006.46.6.805

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Abstract

This article examines Vietnam's strategy toward China since 1990. The study suggests that Vietnam's China policy has been informed by a changing mix of four different pathways, whose salience depends on the interplay of interest and balance of power among China, America, ASEAN, and Vietnam's two grand strategic camps and supreme leader.

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