Agent Orange and Biden’s hypocrisy
“For all their sacrifices, the American soldiers were almost irrelevant.” – Frances Fitzgerald Fire in the Lake Years ago, I had read somewhere that a war does not really end…
Vietnam
Like Floyd Vietnamese Were Victims of a “Flourishing US Culture of Excessive Force Racism & Impunity”
The 27 $million to the family of George Floyd answering allegations that his civil rights were violated within a flourishing American culture of excessive force, racism and impunity by implication…
13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam and its significance
The results of the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), with Nguyen Phu Trong re-elected as General Secretary of the 13th Party Central Committee, have made…
China cherishes Hanoi’s nay to ‘quad’
The 13th National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam got under way in Hanoi on January 25, 2021. It will go on for nine days. Succinctly put, another…
The Tremendous But ‘Secret’ Success Of Socialist Vietnam
Some twenty years ago, when I moved to Hanoi, the city was bleak, grey, covered by smog. The war had ended, but terrible scars remained. I brought my 4WD from…
Will Vietnam Embrace China After Trump Elected?
Common wisdom says that after Donald Trump got elected in the United States, Vietnam should be in panic. True, there could be some ‘objective’ reasons for alarm, if one is…
America Never Says Sorry
A hegemonic power never says sorry. Three recent episodes underscore this truism. When US President Barack Obama offered a floral wreath at the cenotaph of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park…
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