Other ASEAN countries see China as the key target of enmeshment. Some, like Vietnam, deeply suspicious of Chinese domination for historical reasons, harbor a defensive enmeshment concept, hoping that institutional membership will constrain potential Chinese aggression by tying China down, and by binding regional states together. According to a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry official, the “constructive entanglement” of China reflects the hope that “Sino-Vietnamese relations will be meshed within the much larger network of interlocking economic and political interests . . . [creating] an arrangement whereby anybody wanting to violate Vietnam’s sovereignty would be violating the interests of other countries as well.”