On Vietnam’s Foreign Strategic Space during Renewal (Doi Moi) Time, since 1986

Abstract

Since the renewal time (1986), the strategic space in general and the foreign space in particular of Vietnam have been gradually promoted and progressed in favour of the national construction and development. That fact results from the transformation from the approach which was mostly the politic ideology - class-based thought in association, alliance, organization and force gathering into multilateralizing and diversifying the relations, giving top priority to the national-fatherland interests and being active in international integration. However, Vietnam's diplomatic strategic space is facing the challenge mostly due to increase in strategic competition among the big countries, especially the geopolitic ambition of China and cyber-security. For this reason, Vietnam should reach more typical actions such as promoting the studies, planning the foreign  strategies, enhancing the communication and diplometic affairs, combining the fights in all aspects, consisting of politic-economic, cultural and legal foreign affairs, attracting more resources, strengthening, intensifying and connecting the internal forces, including renewing the politic system and reinforcing the national defence power in order to protect and enlarge the foreign space for Vietnam's more favorable career of national construction and development in the current context.