Dr Pham Duy Thuc

Geostrategic shift in Asia-Pacific, Foreign Policy and SCS. 🖊 are strictly my own

[Viet Nam Government Portal @VNGovtPortal]

Nguyen Thi Lan Anh, Vice President of the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam, was elected as a judge of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) for 2026–2035 term
https://t.co/5iGfUSmneT

[Michelle Chan @AusASEANEAS]

Following last month's historic elevation of the 🇦🇺-🇻🇳 friendship to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, I joined Ambassador Pham Hung Tam to discuss our ambitious agenda on trade & investment, education, parliamentary & people-to-people ties and on shared regional challenges.

[South China Sea Connect @Scs_Connect]

🇻🇳 to hold the ASEAN Future Forum 2024 in Hanoi Apr 23, with participants from ASEAN & partners. Being a 🇻🇳 initiative, the forum aims to become an annual multi-stakeholder, track 1.5 dialogue platform for open & constructive dialogues on future of ASEAN.
https://t.co/bV12hfz7KZ

[Kishore Mahbubani @mahbubani_k]

Happy to have engaged in a provocative yet always civil dialogue with the famous China expert Orville Schell at the Asia Society in New York on Thursday, 21st March. Hope you will enjoy it too. https://t.co/rLnE4lmMj9

[Việt Nam News @VietnamNewsVNS]

Thirty-six years ago today, 64 soldiers of the Việt Nam People's Navy bravely sacrificed their lives in the depths of the sea to defend Việt Nam's sovereignty in the #SouthChinaSea

https://t.co/TmqLAUgFnk

[Việt Nam News @VietnamNewsVNS]

🇻🇳 & 🇳🇿 look to raise bilateral trade to US$2 billion in 2024 and $3 billion in 2026, and double bilateral investment through certain measures, including opening markets and reducing trade barriers.

https://t.co/Ad6aKCDa1y

[Anthony Albanese @AlboMP]

Australia and Vietnam are bringing our relationship closer.

Our Comprehensive Strategic Partnership will mean closer cooperation between our countries.

We're working together in areas like climate change, digital transformation, defence, trade and education.

[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong]

Australia & Vietnam are close friends, and today we announced a historic upgrade in our relationship. Our new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, agreed by @AlboMP & PM Chính, means we'll work even more closely together on areas like trade, climate change, defence and education.

[Australian Government @ausgov]

The #ASEAN50AUS Maritime Cooperation Forum came to a close yesterday.

Across two days, we saw informative discussions about the current and future state of maritime cooperation in the #ASEAN region.

[Senator Penny Wong @SenatorWong]

Today I welcomed Vietnam’s FM @FMBuiThanhSon to the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit. Through Australia’s further investment in the Mekong-Australia Partnership and our Southeast Asia Maritime Partnerships, we are working together to ensure a peaceful, stable and prosperous region.

[Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet @pmc_gov_au]

Prime Minister @AlboMP welcomed #ASEAN Leaders to Melbourne for the 2024 ASEAN-Australia Special Summit.

Leaders experienced a smoking ceremony from Wurundjeri Elder Uncle Bill Nicholson and viewed a performance from the Djirri Djirri Dance Group.

[The Lowy Institute @LowyInstitute]

China has the most expansive diplomatic network in the world, closely followed by the United States, the @LowyInstitute 2024 Global Diplomacy Index has revealed. Explore the full interactive Index here: https://t.co/FrtnoiVGND

[Australian Institute of International Affairs @AIIANational]

“50 years into the relationship between ASEAN and Australia, the partnership needs to be expanded. Nowhere more is this needed than in renewable energy,” discussed by Ridvan Kilic

Read more at Australian Outlook👇
https://t.co/XgSlqCvaAr

[ASPI @ASPI_org]

“Silence is a kind of concession – if 🇦🇺 doesn’t say things or do things about the South China Sea or East China Sea or where the broader order is at stake, then that suits 🇨🇳,” @graham_euan tells @AAPNewswire following the 🇨🇳 sonar incident.

Read more ⬇️https://t.co/7k7auos56t

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

NYTimes map of Chinese Coast Guard patrols this year

Meanwhile US is decommissioning 10 cutters because @POTUS’ budget only requested $13.82 billion for the US Coast Guard

Meanwhile in 2023 the Department of Defense’s gets over $1.5 Trillion

$13.82B = less than 1% of $1.5 T 🤦‍♂️

[Defence Australia @DefenceAust]

#AUKUS nations conducted a combined exercise 📍 off the east coast of Australia testing autonomous undersea warfare capabilities during the Integrated Battle Problem 23-3 exercise. <1/2>

[Blue Security @BlueSecProgram]

Our group of Australian maritime scholars had a fruitful meeting today with the Institute for Defence International Relations (IDIR) in Hanoi. ⁦@AusAmbVN⁩ ⁦@dfat⁩

[Gillian Bird 🇦🇺 @AusAmbVN]

Following on from the excellent 1.5 track dialogue, today the Vietnam Boundaries Commission is hosting the official 🇻🇳🇦🇺 Oceans Dialogue. 🌊
Interesting discussions, lots of common ground, spirit of candour and openness.
This is how Strategic Partners should work together! 👏

[Gillian Bird 🇦🇺 @AusAmbVN]

5th Australia-Vietnam 1.5 track Oceans Dialogue. DAV Vice President Son said he wanted to use the dialogue to “illuminate the grey.”
Someone commenting that “active middle powers” like 🇦🇺 and 🇻🇳 can play “creative and influential roles” in shaping an open and prosperous region.”