Asia
Vietnam
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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…
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The Road Not TakenIn chronicling the adventurous life of legendary CIA operative Edward Lansdale, The Road Not Taken definitively reframes our understanding of the Vietnam War.
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The Evolution of U.S.–Vietnam TiesOnce locked in war, Vietnam and the United States have built mature ties rooted in mutual economic and security interests.
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Analyzing the Trump-Kim SummitCFR experts analyze the outcomes of the second summit between President Donald J. Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam on February 27– 28, including the potential denuclearizat…
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The Trump Administration Can Make the Free and Open Indo-Pacific Idea Work in Southeast Asia—With Vietnam as a ModelFor many Southeast Asian states, the Trump White House’s new strategy for the region, the Free and Open Indo-Pacific concept, is a hard idea to sell—at least right now. The strategy vows to promote a…