Vietnam and China: ideological bedfellows, strange dreamers

The article examines the evolution of Vietnam–China relations in post-Cold War to identify factors that shapes its dynamics. It finds bilateral have been significantly changed overtime, from strategic antagonism ideology-shared partnership and subsequently economic sistership security rivalry. two countries’ worldviews gradually diverged. Given geographical nearness is a constant, such course driven by interactions four factours, including shifts environment, internal factional politics, calculations, rising nationalism. At different points time, some factor rises dominantly these others matter less. However, it observed since normalization 1991 shared ideology figured less significantly.