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In Afghanistan, It's Vietnam Syndrome II - Benny Avni, New York Post
The Taliban seem to believe all they need to do now is wait ’til America hightails it out of Afghanistan (coming soon), then take the country back and remake it into the jihadi...
Understanding the South China Sea Disputes - Indian Defence Review
The South China Sea is bounded by China in the North, the Philippines in the East, Vietnam in the West, Malaysia as also Brunei in the South East and Indonesia in the South West. T...
S. China Sea Tensions Will Get Worse - Joshua Kurlantzick, Asia Unbound
This week’s latest South China Sea incident, in which a Chinese fishing boat cut a Vietnamese seismic cable —at least according to Hanoi— is a reminder ...
The Unending Battle over Agent Orange - Simon Roughneen, The Diplomat
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Hurricane Sandy's Lesson for Asia - Michael Richardson, Japan Times
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If the recent intraparty dispute has proven anything, it is that the Communist Party, not its individual leaders, ultimately bears responsibility for Vietnam's failures....
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Vietnam: Where the 70s Are Ancient History - Max Boot, Weekly Standard
Young Vietnamese line up for American coffee, not exhibits on American ‘atrocities.’...
Beijing Worrying Many Neighbors - Greg Sheridan, The Australian
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Could Asia Really Go to War Over Tiny Islands? - The Economist
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U.S. Forgetting Vietnam's Lessons - David Donovan, BBC News
The rise in so-called insider attacks by rogue Afghan security forces has highlighted the perils of joint operations in counter-insurgency. But former US soldier David Donovan, who...
Is Vietnam Becoming Southeast Asia's Greece? - Luke Hunt, ASEAN Beat
The fiscal omens arising out of Vietnam are not good. Talks of bank runs, the arrests of corrupt officials and an end to an economic era marked by robust growth say it all. More s...
Island Grabbing in Asia - Michael Klare, Foreign Affairs
Last month, Japanese activists planted their country's flag on one of the Senkaku Islands (which the Chinese call the Diaoyu Islands), a chain claimed by China, Japan, and Taiwan. ...
India 'Looks East' to South China Sea - Rosalind Reischer, Flashpoints
In mid-July, Vietnam announced that it would extend the contract of India’s ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) –the international arm of India’s Oil and Natural Gas Company (ONGC)–fo...
Nationalism Still Matters in East Asia - Guy Sorman, City Journal
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Vietnam's War on the Blogosphere - Bridget O'Flaherty, The Diplomat
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South China Sea Needs a Mellower Soundtrack - William Pesek, Bloomberg
China may not know, or even care, that it is squandering a decade of public-relations success in Asia. The country skillfully exploited the U.S.’s distractions after the Sept. 11...
In Asia, a Wave of Escalating Territorial Disputes - Chico Harlan, WaPo
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Will U.S. Surrender the South China Sea? - Peter Brookes, Boston Herald
While Chinese athletes try to gobble up Olympic gold in London, half a world away Chinese strategists are trying to gobble up vast tracts of contested territory in the South China ...
Has Vietnam Really Changed? - Khanh Vu Duc, Asia Sentinel
To be blunt, the Hanoi government does not respect the will of its citizens and thus it cannot be said that the government’s actions on the international stage are in any way...
New Arena for Sino-India Competition - Harsh Pant, Yale Global
While the world focuses on the rising tension between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea, Beijing and Delhi are also engaged in a quiet struggle in the contested wate...
How the U.S. and Vietnam Made Up - Julian Teicher, The Conversation
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A Russian Naval Base in Vietnam? - C. Raja Mohan, Indian Express
Facing relentless Chinese pressure in the contested waters of the South China Sea, Vietnam, according to reports from Moscow, is now willing to host Russian military at its base ...
Russia Seeks Sea Power with Decrepit Fleet - R. Scarborough, Wash Times
Russia’s boast that it plans to extend its naval forces to bases in Cuba, the Seychelles and Vietnam poses little strategic threat to U.S. interests in Latin America, the Indian ...
Calming the Waters in South China Sea - Gareth Evans, Project Syndicate
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America's Asian Pivot Finds Its Footing - Luke Hunt, The Diplomat
The swing through Southeast Asia by Hilary Clinton allowed the United States’ Secretary of State to champion the impoverished and oppressed and challenge China whose overbearin...
The End of the Vietnamese Miracle - Geoffrey Cain, Foreign Policy
Over the past decade, rising labor costs in China meant that its days as the factory of the world were numbered. Stable Vietnam, with its young, cheap workforce and serviceable i...
South China Sea: Roiling the Waters - The Economist
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Asia's Next Booming Economy - William Pesek, Bloomberg
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Beijing Flexes South China Sea Muscles - Jon Manthorpe, Vancouver Sun
China has moved to assert administrative control over almost the entire South China Sea in the last two weeks, a thrust that heightens the risk of conflict with neighbours who di...
Will China Go to War Against Vietnam? - Khanh Vu Duc, Asia Sentinel
This spat over the Vietnam Maritime Law is merely one in a long line of conflicts between China and Vietnam. Vietnam’s origins are rooted in China’s history and its his...
North Korea's Asian Charm Offensive - Steven Borowiec, Asia Times
If a string of diplomatic visits is any indication, North Korea and a number of countries in Southeast Asia are workin...
Vietnam's Blogger Revolution - Marianne Brown, The Diplomat
When security forces tried to evict a family of fish farmers from their land in Tien Lang district in northern Vietnam, they weren’t expecting to be met with guns and land mines....
The End of the Asian Miracle - Antoine Van Agtmael, Foreign Policy
The investment guru who coined the term "emerging markets" returns from Asia, finds that the slowdown is real, and offers five game-changing events that are reshaping the global e...
Easy Part Over for Vietnam - Bridget O'Flaherty, The Diplomat
The optimism during Vietnam’s pre-2008 economic boom is over. The Communist Party knows it must take action. But it doesn’t seem to know what....
A Photo Iconic for All the Wrong Reasons - Jean Kaufman, PJ Media
If you are of a certain age, you almost certainly remember Kim Phuc vividly, even though you may not know her name. She was the nine-year-old South Vietnamese girl who was burned...
The End of Counterinsurgency - George Friedman, Stratfor
The U.S. military for years has debated the utility of counterinsurgency operations. Drawing from a sentiment that harkens back to the Vietnam War, many within the military have l...
Vietnam: America's China Balancer - Robert Kaplan, The Atlantic
The effect of Hanoi is cerebral. What the Vietnamese capital catches in freeze-frame is the process of history itself - not merely as some fatalistic, geographically determined ...
Scarborough Just a Warm-Up for Spratlys - Mong Palatino, ASEAN Beat
French philosopher Voltaire once wrote a story about the mad behavior of men going to war over a “few lumps of earth.” In Southeast Asia, there are numerous small and...
A Pundit's Rosy View of the Pax Americana - Andrew Bacevich, Harper's
Time and again - from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the events of 9/11 to the onset of the Arab Spring - events have caught the experts, whether in government or on the out...
Nine Dragons Stirring Up the Sea - Walter Russell Mead, American Interest
Much attention has been focused on China’s confrontational actions and attitudes in the South China Sea. Less attention is given to the internal political dynamics that sha...