Hanoi, June 2 -- Party General Secretary and State President To Lam's recent tour of three ASEAN member states and his keynote address at the 23rd Shangri-la Dialogue in Singapore demonstrated the strategic stature of Vietnam's increasingly proactive and constructive diplomacy amid a rapidly evolving regional and global landscape, according to a Vietnamese scholar. Talking to the Vietnam News Agency, Dr. Dao Ngoc Bau, Director of the Institute of Politics and International Relations under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, said the leader's visits to Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines from May 27 to June 1 carried significance well beyond a series of bilateral engagements. He noted that the trips took place at a time when ...