Role of Vietnam in Europe’s Indo-Pacific stragedy: present and perspective

The Indo-Pacific has partially replaced the term Asia Pacific and emerged as a geo-economic geostrategic concept over last decade, with Japan, Australia, United States India each launching their own respective plan. As long-time investor development donor, EU did grab chance. European Council reached agreement on an Strategy for Cooperation in April 2021, September, it presented Joint Communication providing further rationale its strategy. This paves way to join other long-standing advocates of member ASEAN important geo-strategic position, Vietnam is considered like-minded partner expected promote EUs stance region. study will therefore clarify role members strategies how Hanoi views engagement.