Beijing is simultaneously a ‘big brother’ comrade of the VCP, a difficult partner of the Vietnamese state and a hostile nation to the public. Any analysis of VN's policy towards China needs to distinguish those three layers. Please read more on the East Asia Forum: https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/12/23/the-careful-balancing-act-of-vietnams-bamboo-diplomacy/

Happy to share my new paper on New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, The Great Divergence: Political Accountability and Extractive Capacity in Vietnam and China in the Reform Era, where I compare the development of Vietnam and China's extraction models during their respective reform era. The author's version can be found below. nzjas_june2022_giangDownload