The primary difference is using nails welded with a MIG welder instead of the carved bamboo sticks (punji sticks) known from the Vietnamese originals. The trap consists of boards studded with ...

But this was just an update of principles declared in the middle of the last decade by Vietnam’s former leader, the late Communist Party general secretary, Nguyen Phu Trong. These principles were the ...

Vietnam’s foreign minister credited his Communist-ruled nation’s “bamboo diplomacy” for successfully balancing its relations with the rival global powers of China and the US, and said that ...