Building peace in Asia: It's not the "Asian Way"
China’s “Asian way” is an all-embracing idea and a coded language to discredit other countries’ actions that are deemed harmful to China’s strategic interests, writes Hoang Thi Ha.
Senior Fellow and Co-Coordinator, Regional Strategic and Political Studies Programme – ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
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China’s “Asian way” is an all-embracing idea and a coded language to discredit other countries’ actions that are deemed harmful to China’s strategic interests, writes Hoang Thi Ha.
The animated and polarised discourse on Vietnam’s social media on the Russia-Ukraine war is in stark contrast to the disciplined and scripted coverage in Vietnam’s mainstream media, and as Hoang Thi Ha writes, this reflects the strong appetite among Vietnamese netizens for alternative sources of information.