J Hlaing

4 weeks ago | newmandala.org | Grégory Raymond |J Hlaing |Nino Viartasiwi |Antje Missbach

At the end of 1992 and after the dissolution of powerful friend the Soviet Union , the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, a major organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) with responsibility for ensuring continued CPV rule, assigned its Institute of International Relations to study ASEAN countries and their political systems. When the report landed on the desks of CPV comrades they read that ASEAN governments were pro-West and anticommunist. But what came after was reassuring.