Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis praised Vietnam on Wednesday for adhering to sanctions against North Korea, saying at the start of a two-day visit to Hanoi that its leadership on the issue came despite the costs associated with lost trade.

As China continues to transform disputed territory in the South China Sea into features capable of sustaining air and naval bases, Vietnam is also upgrading areas it occupies.

The 2017 Vietnam-China International Tourism and Trade Fair kicked off in Vietnam's northern Quang Ninh province on Friday, with the participation of hundreds of firms from Vietnam, China and Thailand.

To most scholars who are obsessed with the realist doctrines, China and Vietnam can’t maintain mutually trusted relationship in view of historical memories and geopolitical concerns.

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Tensions are high on the South China Sea as Vietnam faces off against China over their overlapping maritime claims.

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Spain's Repsol said it had suspended oil drilling in a block off Vietnam, where the prospecting in South China Sea waters claimed by China had infuriated Beijing and brought Chinese pressure on Vietnam to stop.

Reports indicate Beijing’s coercive efforts continue even as it plays up a cooling down period in the South China Sea.

State-run newspapers in Vietnam and China reported in recent days that senior military officials from the two countries would hold a fence-mending gathering along a border where their militaries fought a brief but bloody war in 1979.

Hanoi presses for return of strategic archipelago central to regional security dispute

Officially, both sides have tried to forget the bloody conflict. Unofficially, bitterness still runs deep.

Although Việt Nam’s exports to China in the first month of 2017 surged nearly 40 per cent, trade deficit with the Chinese market remained high at US$2.45 billion.

China and Vietnam pledged on Saturday to manage their differences and safeguard peace in the South China Sea, in a joint communique issued during a visit to China by Vietnamese Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong.

Vietnam’s strategic turn toward the South China Sea presents a series of challenges for the country’s defense planners.