In this webinar recorded on May 27, 2020, Trang Phạm Ngọc Minh, a lecturer at Vietnam National University and recent Fulbright scholar in residence at USALI, explained why Vietnam – long suspicious of international law and United Nations institutions – recently filed a note verbale with the United Nations formally protesting China’s claims to historic title to much of the South China Sea and setting out its own claims within the bounds set by the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea.
ASEAN and the South China Sea: Vietnam's Role as Chair
On November 4, the ASEAN chair’s gavel was passed to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc of Vietnam at the closing ceremony of the grouping’s annual summit in Bangkok. Vietnam will serve as the chair of ASEAN, the most important international organization in Southeast Asia, through 2020.