Vietnam, the rising - but reluctant - star

The country is an emerging middle power and has territorial disputes with China. But Washington may not find it easy to get Hanoi to deviate from its current path of avoiding entanglement in the Sino-US rivalry.

Indochina Bureau Chief

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Feb 22, 2021, 05:00 AM

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