Vietnam’s Hedging Strategy Against China And China’s Response To Vietnam

Since the end of the cold war, with the East Asia’s change of the security situation and the restructuring of relations between big powers, hedge strategy has become more important diplomatic strategy choice between small and medium-sized countries in East Asia. For these countries, balance, alliance, neutral strategy restricts its foreign strategy space, has its inevitable limitations. Hedge strategy is different from the balance, alliance and neutral, it is more flexible and independent, and it can promote the realization of the interests of the state.Vietnam is China’s important land neighbor. The tow countries are linked by mountains and rivers. Form the historical perspective, the development of bilateral relations has experienced a complicated process. The relations between them experienced a friendly period of “comrade adds brothers”; they also went through the low tide stage of relationship deteriorated and even fight each other. After the end of the cold war, resumed and developed diplomatic relations. Vietnam thinks China’s rapid rise as opportunities and challenges.Vietnam on policy toward China adopted hedge strategy, on the one hand, Vietnam attaches great importance to the economic cooperation with China in order to promote their own development, on the other hand, Vietnam also to strengthen the construction of its own military and positive rely for external forces such as the United States, India and the association of south-east Asian nations(Asian) counterweight to China. The implementation of the strategy of Vietnam hedge with China, to some extent affected the normal development of China-Vietnam relations, makes China’s peripheral security environment appeared more uncertainty, increased the difficulty for the establishment of China’s foreign policy. China-Vietnam relations is very important in China’s peripheral diplomacy, China should assess the situation, the government, civil should promote the relations, such as perfecting the existing cooperation mechanisms to promote the more trust, makes the China-Vietnam relations rational, practical and stable.