The Funan Techo Canal And Vietnam’s Maritime-Continental Dilemma – Analysis

By Nguyen The Phuong

Since the establishment of the modern Vietnamese nation-state in 1945, the country’s grand strategy has revolved around two pillars: “building” and “defending”. Before 1975, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) focused on two main tasks: “building” socialism in the North, while “fighting”...