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18 February 2021 ‘ Di bat bien, ung van bien’ — a phrase evoked by Ho Chi Minh in 1946 — is the Vietnamese rendering of a Chinese maxim which may be translated ‘to respond to the changing with the unchanging’. This could sum up the essential lesson to be drawn from the 13th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) held from 25 January to 1 February this year.   The Congress began with an upbeat tone. Vietnam has been lauded by the international community for its handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. With a population of 97 million people, Vietnam has only recorded 35 deaths....

Myanmar marks Union Day with the multi-ethnic national dream slipping further away 222 shares 11/02/2021 - 21:56 Pro-democracy protests gather on boats at a rally at Inle Lake, Myanmar February 11, 2021 in this still video image obtained by Reuters. © via Reuters - Social Media 12 min Union Day in Myanmar commemorates the February 12, 1947 signing of a historic agreement that enabled the birth of a unified republic. But 74 years later, with the military seizing power in yet another coup, Myan...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the rise and fall of an icon turned pariah on the world stage 383 shares An image of Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi. © AFP/File Text by: Romain BRUNET 15 min The Myanmar army’s detention of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday marks the fall of an icon whose story has been marked by the country's highs and lows, both at home and abroad. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate rose to lead Myanmar in 2015 after spending the better part of two...

Author: David Camroux, Sciences Po The term ‘Indo-Pacific’ has now entered into the lexicon of the Brussels-linked foreign policy community. German strategic thinker General Karl Haushofer created the geographical denomination of the ‘Indo-Pacific’ in 1924 . A century later, in October 2020, the German Foreign Ministry framed its Asia policy guidelines as directed towards the Indo-Pacific region. In mid-2018, France published a policy paper on the Indo-Pacific. French President Emmanuel Macron found it appropriate to describe France as an Indo-Pacific power, given its overseas territo...