New and core elements of superpower competition Vietnam could face in 2022

The flags of the United States and China fly from a lamppost in the Chinatown neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., November 1, 2021. Photo by Reuters/Brian Snyder

Vietnam needs to handle new challenges thrown up by the intensifying U.S.-China rivalry in the new year, experts have said.

"The most significant new element in the U.S.-China competition in the Indo-Pacific is the tightening of the multipolar system," Carlyle Thayer, emeritus professor, University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defense Force Academy, told VnExpress International.

He explained that in the past, the regional system was "a loose form" of multipolarity and this favored Vietnam's policy of diversifying and multilateralizing its external relations.

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