Beijing, June 1 -- The keynote address by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam at the opening session of the 23rd Shangri-La Dialogue on May 29 was among the most influential speeches delivered at the forum and generated strong resonance, a Chinese scholar has said. In an interview granted to the Vietnamese News Agency's correspondents in China, Prof. Mi Liang, Director of the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies at the Beijing Foreign Studies University of China, said the speech was positive and constructive, broadly reflecting the perspectives of most Southeast Asian countries. His assessment of the world's current challenges was objective, he said, noting that the internat...