Is Vietnam-U.S heading for a Strategic Partnership?

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  • Gitanjali Sinha Roy Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54945/jjia.v2i4.62

Keywords:

US-Vietnam strategic relations, Free and Open Indo-Pacific, Chinese Aggression, Maritime convergences, South China Sea, Quad, Quad Vietnam Axis

Abstract

The relations between the United States of America and Vietnam have been reinvigorated in the recent years and this has led to a change in dynamics reaching an extraordinary level of mutual trust and exchange. The turbulent past between the two countries has left an undeniable scar of the war. The primary reason for the change in relations is due to the rise of an aggressive China especially in the South China Sea. The U.S., its allies and friends bothered by Chinese aggressiveness have brought the U.S. and Vietnam together making China a common bone of contention. US President Donald John Trump has made engagement in the Indo-Pacific region a top priority. In November 2017 on his visit to Vietnam, President Trump outlined his vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) where all the countries would prosper side by side respecting the sovereignty and independence of one another. In this context, the article traces the new changes in the dynamics between the U.S. and Vietnam which in all possibility could lead to a strategic partnership between the two. Furthermore, it would lead to the formation of a ‘United States-led coalition with the Quad countries and Vietnam Axis’ in the Indo-Pacific region

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Author Biography

Gitanjali Sinha Roy, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi

Gitanjali Sinha Roy is a Ph.D. scholar at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi and prior to this; she was a visiting scholar at the University of Tokyo. At present, she is a researcher at Centre for Security and Strategy Studies (Cescube), New Delhi

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2020-12-01

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Roy, G. S. (2020). Is Vietnam-U.S heading for a Strategic Partnership?. Jindal Journal of International Affairs, 8(2), 39–50. https://doi.org/10.54945/jjia.v2i4.62

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Vol. 8 No. 2 (2020)

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