Foreign relations of Vietnam

Disputes - international: maritime boundary with Cambodia not defined; involved in a complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with the People's Republic of China (PRC), Malaysia, Philippines, Republic of China (Taiwan), and possibly Brunei; maritime boundary with Thailand resolved, August 1997; maritime boundary dispute with the PRC in the Gulf of Tonkin; Paracel Islands occupied by the PRC but claimed by Vietnam and and the ROC; offshore islands and sections of boundary with Cambodia are in dispute; agreement on land border with the People's Republic of China was signed in December 1999, but details of alignment have not been made public

Illicit drugs: minor producer of opium poppy with 2,100 hectares cultivated in 1999, capable of producing 11 metric tons of opium; probably minor transit point for Southeast Asian heroin destined for the US and Europe; growing opium/heroin addiction; possible small-scale heroin production

See also : Vietnam