A Study on the Security Relation Between Vietnam and China in the Post-cold War Era.

• Main Authors: Shou-Ming Yen, 閻守銘
• Other Authors: 楊志恆
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/84321243393600889583

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 東南亞研究所碩士班 === 95 === Vietnam is the entry to the Indochinese Peninsula and has an important political landscape. For China, Vietnam is the required place to enter the Southeast Asian countries, and there are frequent political activities between them. After the two countries established diplomatic ties in 1950, Vietnam was at the time in the war against France and the United States. As China had the ideology fit with Vietnam by that time and wanted to ensure the security of the southern part, China assisted Vietnam fully in terms of military and economy. For certain reasons, however, the relationship between the two countries became tense and exacerbated since Vietnam got united. A war in the borderline broke out in 1979 and the two countries’ relationship downed to frozen. They started to seek for the normalization of their relationship and even full cooperation after 1991 on account of international and regional changes along with a need for economical reform in both countries. After 1991 when the two countries’ relation became normal, their relation had been shown significant progress in political and economic aspects, but some uncertainties and unsteady factors still existed. Therefore, this paper focuses on the main measures adopted to strengthen Vietnam and China’s bilateral security relation, and the main factors influencing their mutual security after the normalization of their relationship. Further, I will address personal opinions on the future development of both countries and hope this research may offer some relevant information to later researchers.