Are We Seeing the North Korean Nuclear Crisis Coming to an End?
It has been confirmed; US President Donald Trump is to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore next month, and East Asia is […]
Articles by Nhat Anh Nguyen
Reading Trump’s Whimsical Stance on TPP
Earlier in January, US President Donald Trump expressed interest in rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the condition that the United States strike a “substantially […]
China Scraps Presidential Term Limit: Implications for the World
China abolished the constitutional limit on the number of terms the president and vice-president can serve. The message is clear: Xi Jinping can remain China’s […]
US Changing Course in the South China Sea?
Most people have perhaps never heard of the term, US Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP), until very recently. Indeed, for the program’s past 35 years […]
Looking Back on Aung San Suu Kyi’s Silence
In 2015, Myanmar became the front-page story in international media with the triumph of the National League of Democracy (NLD) in the first general elections […]
North Korea – Containment To Engagement
What can the world do about North Korea’s nuclear program? Sanctions usually first come to mind as a way to control rogue states. However, in […]
Saigon — The Broken Pearl that Mends
Located in the south of Vietnam, Saigon today has the atmosphere of a typical tropical city. One is likely to be first impressed, rather than […]
How Socialist Remnants Are Hurting Vietnam’s Legacy
During the mid-1980s, Vietnam was plunged into a profound socio-economic crisis. Against this backdrop, the shift away from a centrally planned economic model initiated in […]
Industrialization 4.0 — The emergence of the jobless class?
Adidas, the German sportswear and equipment giant, has announced it will start marketing its first series of shoes manufactured by robots in Germany in 2017. […]
How Trump is somewhat right about globalization
At his inauguration, Donald Trump made remarks few would expect from the President of the United States. Standing in front of the Capitol, Trump echoed […]