Vietnam's Policy of Strategic Resilience in the New Period

Đinh Thị Hiền Lương

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Abstract

The study, analysis and forcasting of the impacts of major developments and new trends in external relations on Vietnamese economy amidst of escalating geopolitical tensions, world economic slowdown, and fierce competition among major countries to assert their positions and roles respectively in the new international order, are of critical importance to Vietnam’s economic development directions, roadmaps and growth drivers both theoretically and practically. It is essential noting that the timely, active policy adjustments drawn on such research findings would make significant contributions to Vietnam’s increasing strategic resilience in responding to a new situation characterized by unpredictability. It is equally worth noting that the assessment of the impacts of the US-China strategic rivalry, and the opportunities and challenges resulting from China's transformation of the economy into a new high-quality production model, as well as the shift of manufacturing and supply chains region-wide, and China’s ambitious pursuit of a China-led platform stiputlating their own rules in terms of economic cooperation, trade, hi-tech investments etc. are also important studies with practical significance for Vietnam’s achievement of sustainable development goals from now until 2045.


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Đinh Thị Hiền Lương

Senior research fellow, Institute of Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam

Dr. Julia Luong DINH (a.k.a DINH Thi Hien Luong) is a senior research fellow at the Institute of Foreign Policy and Strategic Studies, the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) since January 2000, and the lecturer in the Joint Training Programme between the DAV and the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand since 2017, and the visiting lecturer of the course on ‘Japan in Global Perspectives’ at the Vietnam-Japan University, Hanoi since September 2024.

Dr. Dinh got her Doctoral Degree from the University of Sydney (Australia) in 2016, her International Masters from the University of Malaya (Malaysia) and the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 2005. She was awarded the Ushiba Memorial Fellowship for ASEAN Researchers under the auspices of the Japan Association for Promotion of International Cooperation (APIC) to conduct her research project on Japan’s role in the Building of East Asian Community at Reitaku University in Chiba (Japan) between 2007 and 2008.

Her research background and interests are Chinese foreign policy, great power politics, soft power, international relations theory and practice in the Asia-Pacific. Dr. Dinh is the Chief Investigator of the NAFOSTED research project on China’s soft power, and the editor of the book on Sino-US strategic rivalry in the Indo-Pacific from soft power perspective and implications on Vietnam published in 2023.