Asia
Vietnam
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What’s Behind Mainland Southeast Asia’s Surprising Success Against COVID-19With the exception of Thailand, the five countries of mainland Southeast Asia are some of the poorest in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the World Bank, Cambodia has a per capita GDP of around …
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Mainland Southeast Asia's Battle Against COVID-19With the exception of Thailand, the five countries of mainland Southeast Asia are some of the poorest in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the World Bank, Cambodia has a per capita GDP of around …
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Vietnam’s Response to the United States’ Changing Approach to the South China SeaHuong Le Thu is a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. July 2020 marked a significant shift in developments regarding the South China Sea. The Trump administration announce…
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China’s Maritime DisputesDisputes over overlapping exclusive economic zones in the South China Sea have intensified in recent decades, while the territorial row over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands in the East China Sea dates back to the nineteenth century.
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Cyber Week in Review: May 1, 2020Commerce department tightens restrictions on technology exports; Australia debuts coronavirus tracing app; Amazon bought thermal cameras from blacklisted Chinese firm; U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejects AI inventor; and Report reveals Vietnamese hackers’ targeting of Google Play store.
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Vietnam: A Successful Battle Against the VirusThe country has kept its number of cases relatively low by reacting immediately, decisively, and with a degree of severity.
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It Is Time for a Currency Manipulation Truce… Especially as Taiwan Disclosed Its True Foreign Exchange PositionThere is no need for the Treasury to put out its foreign exchange report on time this April. There are other, more pressing priorities. And if it does, the Treasury should exercise its discretion to allow those countries that came close to meeting the definition of manipulation last year off the hook.
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The Uncertainty of Vietnam’s Domestic Politics and Foreign PolicyIn a major new defense white paper, its first in ten years, Vietnam has signaled that it could abandon its long-standing foreign policy strategy of hedging between major powers like China and the Uni…
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All Sound and No Fury? Will The Trump Administration Get Tough on Currency in April?A number of Asian countries could be designated as manipulators in the U.S. Treasury's April foreign exchange report. And unlike the politically motivated designation of China last summer, there would be a clear analytical justification for a new round of designations.
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Southeast Asia Faces Graver Peril From Climate Change Than Previously ThoughtRising seas will endanger more than three hundred million people in the next thirty years, according to a startling new study published in late October in the journal Nature Communications. By 2050, …
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What Might Be in Treasury's October 2019 Foreign Exchange Report?The Fall 2019 Treasury Foreign Exchange Report should send a strong warning to Thailand, Taiwan, and Singapore that their current pattern of intervention in the market would put them at risk of future designation. But it probably won't focus heavily on any of the three.
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See How Much You Know About the Vietnam WarTest your knowledge of the Vietnam War, from France’s colonial occupation to the U.S. withdrawal.
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Will There Be Winners in the U.S.-China Trade War?With tariffs slowing U.S. trade with China, several countries are hoping their exports will become more affordable and that their economies will reap the rewards.
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Vietnam Looks To Be Winning Trump's Trade WarVietnam's exports to the U.S. are growing fast. It also runs an overall current account surplus. If it has resumed purchasing dollars in the foreign exchange market to keep its currency from appreciating, it may soon be a test case for Trump's policy toward countries that intervene to maintain an undervalued currency.
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Last Days of the Mighty Mekong: A ReviewBy Nicholas Borroz The Last Days of the Mighty Mekong, by Brian Eyler, director of the Southeast Asia program at the Stimson Center, takes the reader on a journey from glaciers in China to rice fi…