The way Vietnam has approached the conflict in the Ukraine is a particularly strong example of bamboo diplomacy at work. When the conflict began, Vietnam made a show of respect for the long and ...

Vietnam follows a foreign policy strategy dubbed ‘bamboo diplomacy', a “firm but flexible” approach. The concept was first ...

But this was just an update of principles declared in the middle of the last decade by Vietnam’s former leader, the late Communist Party general secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong. These principles were the ...