Vietnam

Vietnam now appears to be an outlier in its vociferous opposition to China’s push for control over the South China Sea.

Two big myths persist about the United States and Vietnam. The first is that when U.S. soldiers returned from the war there, protesters spat upon them in disdain....

U.S. President Barack Obama will visit Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon. Obama's trip could prove to be a milestone in a two-decade path toward...

The clash of interests between China and the United States in the South China Sea has become more tense, and the situation is only going to get worse. The...

To protect its core interests in Asia, the United States should start being honest about the things it doesn't care about. That includes China's harassment of...

The ubiquity of human rights rhetoric in American political life today obscures the relatively recent origins of the U.S. human rights movement. It wasn’t...

Wildlife trade bans are failing because they have run into the same basic problem as the war on drugs. Prohibitions on trading wildlife products such as tusks and...

The Southeast Asian countries that line the Mekong River -- Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, and Vietnam, along with China’s southern Yunnan Province -- are finally fending...

Editor's Note: For a French view of the situation in Indo-China see "Indo-China and Korea: One Front," by Jacques Soustelle, Foreign Affairs,...

As Washington ponders how long to stay in Iraq, it would do well to remember the limited impact of the United States' withdrawal from Vietnam and Cambodia in the...

How Many Casualties Will Americans Tolerate?

During Richard Nixon's first term, when I served as secretary of defense, we withdrew most U.S. forces from Vietnam while building up the South's ability to...

Public support for the war in Iraq has followed the same course as it did for the wars in Korea and Vietnam: broad enthusiasm at the outset with erosion of...

Despite recently signing the long-awaited trade deal with the United States, Vietnam's communist leadership is split by uncertainty about the country's economic and...