The Russian Journal of Vietnamese Studies

The article is devoted to the assessment of dynamics and nature of relations between Vietnam and China against the background of events taking place in the region and the world. The main attention in this work is paid to a new stage of bilateral cooperation, which began with the creation of a «Community with a shared future that carries strategic significance», to the reasons for the stated deepening of interaction between Vietnam and China in the context of the US-Chinese confrontation.

Despite the publication of many works devoted to various aspects of relations between these two countries, the large dynamics of events taking place in Southeast Asia requires additional research aimed at rethinking old and revealing new trends.

The article is based on an analysis of the recent China-Vietnam joint statement (December 2023) and its comparison with other similar documents – the China-Vietnam statement of 2022, the US-Vietnam and Japan-Vietnam statements of 2023. This method allows us to more accurately assess the current state of Vietnamese-Chinese relations and predict their further development.

The paper aims to analyze the trade balance between Vietnam and China and assess the impact of its key determinants, with a focus on the US-China trade war, using the autoregressive distributed lag model for quarterly data from Q1 2009 to Q4 2022. The statistical analysis shows that although Vietnam's trade balance with China shows increasing deficits, the US-China trade war has a positive impact on Vietnam as its export-import ratio with China increases in both the long and short run. We also find that the impact of participation in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) is positive but not statistically significant. We also find evidence that several factors have a positive and significant impact on the trade balance, including Vietnam's growth rate, Vietnam's industrial production index, and China's population. On the other hand, some factors, such as the exchange rate between Chinese yuan and Vietnamese dong and the population of Vietnam, are found to have a significant negative impact. These findings can provide evidence to help Vietnamese businesses and policymakers formulate trade policies with China, especially in the current complex geopolitical context.

The article is devoted to the problems of the development of Vietnam's foreign trade relations during the second half of the XIX century. The analysis of the main foreign trade partners of Vietnam, the range of export and import, supply channels, volumes of foreign trade turnover, prices is presented. Special attention is paid to the policy of the European powers on the development of Vietnam's foreign trade relations. The main approaches of the Vietnamese authorities and traders to the organization of foreign trade relations with neighboring and European countries are noted. The characteristics of the main centers of trade in Vietnam, the peculiarities of the organization of trade in export and import goods, as well as the transportation of goods by land, sea and river routes are given. The views and approaches of the Russian authorities and entrepreneurs to the development of foreign trade relations of the Russian Empire with Vietnam are revealed. In particular, information is provided on the entry of Russian ships into the ports of Vietnam, as well as on the supply channels of Vietnamese goods to the Russian market. The article is based mainly on pre-revolutionary sources in Russian, French, English, Spanish and Vietnamese.

Vietnamese folk painting art, a traditional art form, is the quintessence of the nation's cultural heritage and historical significance, expressing rustic beauty but containing a Vietnamese culturally conscious mind. In order to preserve the typical beauty in the daily life of ancient Vietnamese people, a genre of folk painting rich in visual art and meaning appeared in the early 20th century. That expression is a set of paintings in an ethnographic research work by Henri Oger, a French scholar. The "Technique du peuple Annamite" series of paintings was produced in large quantities by Vietnamese artisans and reflects the daily life of the Vietnamese people in the capital Hanoi and the Red River Delta. This research was conducted to clarify the elements that create the folk character of the painting from the perspective of visual arts. The results of this study show that the paintings, from themes to forms of expression, all reflect the quintessence of Vietnamese folk art.

That is the review of the All-Russian scientific conference “Political culture and spiritual values of Vietnam and other countries of Indochina” held at the IAAS of Lomonosov Moscow State, dedicated to the memory of the prominent orientalist Oksana Vladimirovna Novakova, who stood at the origins of domestic Vietnamese studies. In the memorial part of the conference, O. V. Novakova’s colleagues and students shared their memories and revealed various facets of her life and scientific work. The scientific part of the conference covered those topics that interested O. V. Novakova and were reflected in her works.

Приводится текст Совместного заявления премьер-министра СРВ Фам Минь Тиня и премьер-министра Австралии Энтони Альбанезе о повышении уровня вьетнамо-австралийских отношений до всеобъемлющего стратегического партнерства, согласованного в Австралии 7 марта 2024 г.

It is a review of the monograph by prof. I.N. Selivanov, dedicated to the influence of the “Yugoslav” and “Albanian” factors on the formation and development of Soviet-Vietnamese relations in the second half of the 1940s – early 1980s. The events in question played an important role in the history of the international communist and labor movement. The author also touches on such an important problem as the specifics of interstate relations within the “camp of socialism” during the period in which I.V. Stalin, N.S. Khrushchev and L.I. Brezhnev was in power in the Soviet Union. The book consists of three main parts, which reveal various aspects of relations between the USSR and Vietnam with Yugoslavia and Albania. A separate section is devoted to consideration of the processes of making foreign policy decisions in the Soviet Union. Each section of the book is provided with a thematic list of sources and illustrations.