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Nicholas Chapman is a researcher at Tohoku University specialising in Vietnamese foreign policy, political economy, and history, with broader research interests spanning Indo-Pacific security and labour migration across Asia. [1]

In March, Tran Dai Quang, Vietnam's security czar, spent a week shuffling from one high-level meeting to the next in Washington. [2]

Tran Nguyen Quan is a research associate with Tokyo International University's Asia Maritime Index project. [3]

HANOI -- Nguyen Phu Trong, the head of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, appears to be borrowing from Chinese President Xi Jinping's playbook. [4]

The settlements of the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, one of the world's largest Tibetan Buddhism institutes, light up on July 27 in Sertar County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, China. [5]

Nguyen Phuong Linh is a Singapore-based political analyst and a former journalist in Hanoi. Opinions expressed here are solely her own, not her employer's. [6]

HANOI -- A power struggle in Vietnam's ruling Communist Party could be about to intensify with all eyes on powerful but ailing General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, whose duties have been taken over by President To Lam. (confirmed by 3 sources) [7]

HANOI -- Vietnam party chief Nguyen Phu Trong appears to have further cemented his grip on power after parliament on Thursday approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers in an extraordinary session that opened the same day. [8]

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[1] TH fulcrum.sg · 2025-06-05 · 50% match

Nicholas Chapman

Nicholas Chapman is a researcher at Tohoku University specialising in Vietnamese foreign policy, political economy, and history, with broader research interests spanning Indo-Pacific security and labour migration across Asia.

[2] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-04-30 · 65% match

Phuong Nguyen: The delicate act of balancing China and the West

In March, Tran Dai Quang, Vietnam's security czar, spent a week shuffling from one high-level meeting to the next in Washington.

[3] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-09-04 · 60% match

U.S. and Vietnam have room to expand their defense cooperation

Tran Nguyen Quan is a research associate with Tokyo International University's Asia Maritime Index project.

[4] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2018-03-27 · 60% match

Vietnam's most powerful man strives to put stamp on economy

HANOI -- Nguyen Phu Trong, the head of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, appears to be borrowing from Chinese President Xi Jinping's playbook.

[5] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-08-03 · 55% match

Through the lens: Eye on Asia for the first week of August - Nikkei Asia

The settlements of the Larung Gar Buddhist Academy, one of the world's largest Tibetan Buddhism institutes, light up on July 27 in Sertar County, Garze Tibetan Autonomous prefecture, Sichuan province, China.

[6] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2021-02-07 · 55% match

Vietnam's gray old men are losing touch with the new generation

Nguyen Phuong Linh is a Singapore-based political analyst and a former journalist in Hanoi. Opinions expressed here are solely her own, not her employer's.

[7] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2024-07-19 · 55% match

Vietnam succession in focus as president stands in for party chief

HANOI -- A power struggle in Vietnam's ruling Communist Party could be about to intensify with all eyes on powerful but ailing General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, whose duties have been taken over by President To Lam.

[8] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-01-06 · 53% match

Vietnam's Trong consolidates power with dismissals of deputy PMs

HANOI -- Vietnam party chief Nguyen Phu Trong appears to have further cemented his grip on power after parliament on Thursday approved the dismissals of two deputy prime ministers in an extraordinary session that opened the same day.

[9] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2023-12-12 · 52% match

Vietnam and China agree to build 'shared future' as Xi visits Trong

HANOI -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and Vietnamese Communist Party leader General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Tuesday agreed that their countries will build a "shared future" and strengthen their bilateral relationship.

[10] TH asia.nikkei.com · 2015-07-16 · 51% match

Vietnam in balancing act between Washington, Beijing

HANOI -- Nguyen Phu Trong, head of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, arrived in the U.S. on July 6, the first trip by such a high-ranking official to the Southeast Asian nation's former enemy. He met with U.S. President Barack Obama on July 7.

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