Everyone not China wants to play both sides of the conflict and the US is ramping up its intensity on it’s side in the region. Vietnam has a lot of trade and (unofficial) military deals with the US to the point where they floated leasing a military base in Vietnam and if you know about Vietnam’s neutrality policy that sounds crazy. Vietnam, Japan and Taiwan are all close allies at this point as well and up until the last few months Japan has been playing both sides themselves which you saw with RCEP. The US has probably placed a lot of pressure on Japan after Biden got elected because suddenly everything moved from anti-China but pro Chinese trade to just anti-China.
Just read between the lines here and you can tell that they are continuing the neutrality policy as they always have, but are more than happy to defend against Chinese incursions against Vietnamese territory since it’s China that would be impacting the relationship then.
Everyone not China wants to play both sides of the conflict and the US is ramping up its intensity on it’s side in the region. Vietnam has a lot of trade and (unofficial) military deals with the US to the point where they floated leasing a military base in Vietnam and if you know about Vietnam’s neutrality policy that sounds crazy. Vietnam, Japan and Taiwan are all close allies at this point as well and up until the last few months Japan has been playing both sides themselves which you saw with RCEP. The US has probably placed a lot of pressure on Japan after Biden got elected because suddenly everything moved from anti-China but pro Chinese trade to just anti-China.
Just read between the lines here and you can tell that they are continuing the neutrality policy as they always have, but are more than happy to defend against Chinese incursions against Vietnamese territory since it’s China that would be impacting the relationship then.
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