The move set off protests across Vietnam lasting for weeks, with angry Vietnamese protestors burning down Chinese businesses and forcing Beijing to extract thousands of its citizens fleeing the country. In 2014, Hanoi was stunned when China National Petroleum Corporation moved an oil rig into waters off the Paracel Islands claimed by Vietnam.
This is part of a concerted island-building strategy to create “facts on the sea,” including airfields, maritime ports, and resupply facilities. China’s maritime claims span Vietnam’s entire coastline, creating serious territorial disputes and overlapping claims between Beijing and Hanoi. The common concern propelling such security cooperation is China, and specifically its massive reclamation and militarization activities in the South China Sea. All of these countries have stepped up defense cooperation with Vietnam in recent years. engagement has breathed new life into a quadrilateral security dialogue in the region, commonly known as the “Quad,” encompassing the United States, Japan, India, and Australia. allies and emerging partners-to address regional challenges like maritime security and counterterrorism. Under the rubric of its new “Indo-Pacific” strategy, the Trump administration is maintaining and enhancing Obama-era policies to expand bilateral relations with emerging partners in Asia, like Vietnam, and to encourage the development of security networks among like-minded countries-including U.S. Asia policy and regional security cooperation generally.
In some ways, Vietnam is at the epicenter of broader developments in U.S.
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