Population advantage in the US-China competition The US-China strategic competition has intensified, and China has recognized the severity of the population problem, including population aging, but more importantly, the population quality story. Recently, some American scholars have argued that it…
For the leaders of Southeast Asia’s two biggest nations, Indonesia and the Philippines – two fledgling democracies in the grip of populism, each is unhappy in its own way. On the surface, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his Indonesian counterpart…
New Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son has just had a phone call with his Chinese counterpart Vuong Nghi, in which the two sides affirmed to maintain comprehensive strategic cooperation as well as held the “straightforward” exchange on maritime issues.…
I would like to call the US Ambassador to Vietnam Daniel Kritenbrink as informally as Americans “together” when they have known each other for a long time. Hope “Dan” does not object. The Ambassador did not tell many stories, in…
