VOlUME 04 ISSUE 09 SEPTEMBER 2021
Huynh Thanh Tien, Ph.D.
Director of Resource Center for Community Development An Giang University, VNU-HCMCITY
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3389-9724
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Abstract
Maritime security issue has recently been becoming a hot global issue. Therefore, it really needs a global solution as stated by Vietnam Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on the virtual International Conference “Enhancing Maritime Security – A Case for International Cooperation” held on August 9th 2021. Particularly, territorial disputes in the East Sea ‘Biển Đông’ (internationally named as the South China Sea; in this paper, the author prefers using the East Sea), one of the most strategically geopolitical regions in the world, have become hotter and hotter recently. The East Sea is important not only to Vietnam’s socioeconomic development and national security but also to all countries in the Indo-Pacific region, including the United States. This paper aims to analyze the interests of both the U.S. and Vietnam in the East Sea towards the two countrie’s strategies of national security and economic development and maintaining the peace and prosperity for this region and the world.
KEYWORDS:East Sea, geopolitical region, maritime security, national security, peace and prosperity
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