Free and open Indo-Pacific strategy: Impacts on Vietnam
Authors: Nguyen Thi Le Vinh, Dinh Trung Thanh, Vu Thi Phuong Le, Nguyen Phan Thu Hang, Ton Nu Hai Yen
PalArch’s Journal of Archaeology of Egypt/Egyptology
: 18 : 469
Publishing year: 4/2021
The paper identifies the challenges and opportunities of security, economy, governance methods,
and external relations that the Trump administration's Indo-Pacific Free and Open Strategy
brings to Vietnam through the analysis of implementation of this strategy published in official
US government documents and research papers; through the synthesisand statistics of data
related to Vietnam-US relations in the past 10 years; through a comparison of the pillars of the
strategy to the national interests of Vietnam.The concept of the Indian Ocean-Pacific Ocean
region is not new in the geopolitical strategy calculations of the powers for Asia. But this
concept was only really noticeable in recent times when President Donald Trump spoke about
America's vision of the Indian-Pacific strategy for the first time at the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) Summit held in Da Nang, Vietnam in November 2017. Vietnam is
particularly interested in how this strategy will be implemented to shape its security
environment. From the identification of the challenges and opportunities that the strategy brings
to Vietnam, we suggest a number of measures for Vietnam's leaders to make policies to improve
the effectiveness of foreign affairs in a new context.