Vietnam and Malaysia will make new strides in their relations under the cabinet of new Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, said Collins Chong Yew Keat, lecturer of the University of Malaysia.
As Malaysians welcome a new government led by Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, all eyes are on how he will balance the need to maintain relations with China and also its neighbours against the sovereign interests of the South-East Asian nation.
The suggestion to negotiate a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea among claimant countries, rather than between Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) and China carries the risk of fracturing the 10-nation grouping, an analyst warned.