India and Vietnam: Pushing back the dragon
The comprehensive strategic partnership between New Delhi and Hanoi is playing an important role in ensuring balance of power in Asia
Rarely, if ever, does India weigh heavily on the minds of foreign leaders when they meet their counterparts from third countries. But when Chinese President Xi Jinping recently met Communist Party of Vietnam’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Beijing, seasoned observers could sense that New Delhi was the invisible elephant in the room.