Vietnam’s effort to modernize Da Nang’s maritime infrastructure may look at first like another Asian port-development project, but it is considerably more important than that. The transformation underway along Vietnam’s central coast brings together three priorities that increasingly define Hanoi’s foreign policy: economic modernization, technological self-reliance and stronger maritime awareness in the South China Sea. […]
Author Archives: James Borton
James Borton is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and the author of Dispatches from the South China Sea: Navigating to Common Ground.
