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'Discovering Vietnam’s Ancient Capital' by Andrew Hardy and Nguyễn Tiến Đông tells the story of the tussle between archaeologists and the Vietnamese party-state to save the 1000-year-old 'Imperial Citadel' of Thăng Long/Hanoi. My review online here: tandfonline.com/eprint/NCGXXHI…

There's courage and there's stepping into a Ho Chi Minh City canal courage...

More Vietnamese are invested in the stock market than French?

🌏 Southeast Asia Forum 2025 🌏 Join us for a timely discussion on Geo-Economic Contestation over Southeast Asia in the Era of Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. 📅 22 May 2025 | 📍 LSE | 💬 In-person & online 🔗 Register now: lse.ac.uk/seac/events

Europeans want to stop the other side from spying. Indo-Pacificans just assume everyone else is already spying…

In a historic diplomatic exchange, Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar engaged in his first-ever discussion with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan’s Foreign Minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi. The phone call unfolded mere days after India and Pakistan reached an agreement to halt

Interesting that the reporting here is datelined Beijing, not London...

A cautionary tale for academic journal editors. Every single one of these very convincing-looking references is fake. Thanks AI for making us all more suspicious of each other and raising the barriers to publication...

I've seen one estimate that President Trump's new golf course in Hung Yen province, Vietnam is going to displace over 14,000 farmers... news.tuoitre.vn/work-begins-on…

The Fifteenth Annual South China Sea Conference will take place on June 17. Hosted by CSIS Southeast Asia and AMTI, this full-day event will discuss the evolving dynamics and paths forward in the South China Sea. Join us: cs.is/43zge9j

Great to be part of this panel at #HTLGI25 - a packed tent for a discussion on Taiwan and the likelihood of World War 3…

Great turnout for the ‘Taiwan tripwire’ discussion at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival in Hay this morning. Pleased to share some insights from ‘The Invention of China’ and ‘The South China Sea’ #HTLGI25

The list of US companies that Vietnam's trade minister held meetings with this month is interesting: Westinghouse nuclear power, SpaceX, Google, Excelerate Energy (which sells LNG import technology) and LockheedMartin - maker of the famous F-16...

Sam Altman took the UK's Tech Secretary Peter Kyle out for a £30 meal in April.

Cambodian military taking their RM-70 MLRS to war with Thailand in white-wall tyres…

Vietnam seems to have missed the US-ASEAN defence ministers meeting. Myanmar presumably not invited. Timor Leste gets to join in.

It was fantastic to kick off this year’s Indo Pacific Roundtable at RUSI last night! We were delighted to bring together distinguished experts to discuss UK and Europe relations with the Indo-Pacific, touching upon a multitude of dimensions.