Politics

December is a month of year-end celebrations in the Gregorian calendar, but it also marks an important historical milestone for...

The 2011 Anti-China Social Movement had ended after more than three months of roughly weekly demonstrations, and despite the spontaneous...

Why Should We Care About Non-Communist Discourse of Vietnamese Nationhood?While issues on Vietnamese nationalism have been widely discussed in academia,...

Among the “four pillars,” the position of prime minister possesses both power and prestige.In the spring of 2021, Vietnam has...

In Vietnam, the position of state president is like that of a ship captain who completely got separated from the...

Though it is one of the “four pillars” of the Vietnamese government, the National Assembly chairpersonship remains the weakest position.Vietnam’s...

Since the beginning of its history, the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) has been portraying itself as a group of nationalists...

Vietnam’s general election in May 2021, with the surprise factor of Luong The Huy’s independent candidacy, revealed a political landscape...

“The dream for authoritarian regimes is to reap the fruits of electoral legitimacy without running the risks of democratic uncertainty.”...

Vietnam has been consistently categorized as “not free” and “authoritarian” by many organizations, such as Freedom House and The Economist....