Great powers pressurizing small, medium countries to take sides as Asia Pacific turns the latest battleground for supremacy: Vietnam

Pham Sanh Chau, Ambassador of Vietnam in India.

Caught in the middle of increasing rivalry among the world’s great powers, the small and medium countries like Vietnam are being pressurized to take sides. Also as the tension mounts further in the Asia Pacific region which has become the latest battleground for competition for primacy, the small and medium countries are facing push and pull from different sides.

Pham Sanh Chau, Ambassador of Vietnam in India flagged this concern recently while participating in a webinar “Vietnam in the Emerging Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific” organized by the Centre for Vietnam Studies recently. Read more...