{"id":4495,"date":"2021-04-09T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=4495"},"modified":"2021-04-09T14:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T18:24:02","slug":"nguyen-xuan-phuc-sworn-in-as-vietnams-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2021\/04\/09\/nguyen-xuan-phuc-sworn-in-as-vietnams-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Nguyen Xuan Phuc sworn in as Vietnam\u2019s president"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Link: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/5\/leader-of-vietnams-pandemic-response-sworn-in-as-president<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Vietnam\u2019s PM of 5 years, has this week been sworn in as the President of Vietnam. Most notably, Phuc was praised for his vigilant and strong leadership responding to the recent pandemic, ensuring that the populace was fed, employed, and safe through the crisis. However, prior to the pandemic he was known for renegotiating and expanding on Vietnam\u2019s bilateral relations with the United States, picking up where the Trans-Pacific Partnership failed and ratified the CPTPP succeeding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AJ explains how the government of Vietnam is headed by three primary figures: the PM, the President, and the General Secretary of the Communist Party. Phuc is the first Prime Minister to become President of Vietnam, and his history in strengthening American relations can only be a good sign for us in the Vietnamese government given that their presidency handles the majority of direct foreign affairs (while the general secretary deliberates the position of the party and ultimately the country). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although Phuc\u2019s position on the CPTPP was criticized to go behind the socialist vision of Vietnam\u2019s Communist Party, it ensures surefire economic growth and a stronger relationship with the US. A positive American relationship with Vietnam is important for them primarily due to China\u2019s increasing presence in the South China Sea, damaging the authority Vietnam has over their maritime claims (which provide for two of their greatest industries, seafood and soybeans). Their historic isolation from global conflicts enshrined by \u201cthe three nos\u201d–no military alliances, no foreign troops stationed on Vietnamese soil, and no partnering with a foreign power to combat another–is slowly coming apart as they rely more and more on the United States to limit the Chinese presence on land important to Vietnam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the United States, Vietnam becomes far more important than many other parts of Asia mostly due to our falling out with the Philippines. Securing a coastal foothold in Southeast Asia where the US can safely pressure China is pertinent to our strategies to contain China\u2019s expansion into the South Pacific, and where the Philippines doesn\u2019t support us Vietnam will. Seeing symbolic support in the seats of the presidency and the general secretary of Vietnam is a good omen for our hopes to establish ourselves there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Link: https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2021\/4\/5\/leader-of-vietnams-pandemic-response-sworn-in-as-president  Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Vietnam\u2019s PM of 5 years, has this week been sworn in as the President of Vietnam. Most notably, Phuc was praised for his vigilant and strong leadership responding to the recent pandemic, ensuring that the populace was fed, employed, and safe through the crisis. However, prior to the pandemic he was known for renegotiating and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4495\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}