https://www.scmp.com/rss/505711/feed David Koh has been researching Vietnam and regional affairs for three decades. He used to work at the Iseas-Yusof Ishak Institute and now runs his own consultancy. He is currently a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Cambodian Institute of Cooperation & Peace en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Much has been made of the comradeship between the two communist-ruled countries of Vietnam and China. Often they declare one side has been and is still the other’s strategic hinterland. They also often refer to the periods when they, as brothers in arms, joined forces to fight imperialists and colonialists. But romance is not a sustainable foundation for national policy. When it comes to the South China Sea, Chinese and Vietnamese claims are zero sum – as, for that matter, are any claims in the... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3081787/china-and-vietnams-brotherly-love-adrift-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3081787/china-and-vietnams-brotherly-love-adrift-south-china-sea?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Apr 2020 23:00:33 +0000