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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

5 months

Three major phenomena that make 2024 so far an extraordinarily unprecedented time in Vietnamese politics & society: 1/

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C Nguyen

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11 months

I’ve unfortunately heard quite a few Vietnamese elders, under no less worse bombing campaigns, lately whispering: “at least we had somewhere to go and hide”. What’s happening to Gaza feels worse and catastrophic.

New Left EViews

@NewLeftEViews

11 months

I don't think people realise the implication here. Unlike the terror bombing of German cities [still considered a war crime], the destruction of Gaza is perpetrated with precision weaponry, over a short span of time, against a wholly defenceless population with nowhere to go.

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Historic. Probably the first time that a @POTUS is received by #Vietnam ’s communist party general secretary on that podium in front of the presidential palace.

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It’s about time that “since 1979” myth ends. The Sino-Vietnamese war lasted for 10 years. Among the highest daily combat losses in the history of Vietnam People’s Army took place in 1984 against China (600 to 1,700 per day in the Battle of Vi Xuyen/Laoshan).

Branko Milanovic

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Many people don't like to confront the facts. But the facts are stubborn. The US and the USSR/Russia have invaded and attacked scores of countries in the past 40 years while China has not invaded anyone since 1979.

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My biggest and quiet point of criticism about Ukraine’s wartime diplomacy for mobilizing international support is precisely its exclusionary, civilizational approach only fit for the apetite of the West. The indifference in other parts of the world partly comes from this.

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2 years

The aesthetics of #Indonesia ’s G20 summit are as expected, stunning.

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Never understood why major countries in Asia, each with <100 million people, are often referred to as small and insignificant countries, whereas truly mini-states in Europe receive significant academic & public attention. Why?

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Seeing leaders of India, Indonesia, and Vietnam either holding formal bilateral talks & hand-shaking with Zelensky at the G7 reminds me that the rising diplomatic clout of 'the global south' is often perceived as naturally anti-West. However, it also involves growing confidence..

Joko Widodo

@jokowi

1 year

Presiden Ukraina Volodymyr Zelenskyy masih mengingat kedatangan saya ke negaranya beberapa waktu lalu. Saat mengadakan pertemuan bilateral di sela-sela KTT G7 dan mitra di Hiroshima tadi, Presiden Zelenskyy kembali mengungkit pertemuan kami di Kyiv pada masa sulit Ukraina itu.

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I am curious, why are there so many Koreans in Uzbekistan?

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@lslothuus This war has been one of unmasking for the state of European green parties & many environmentalists who have come out to support a genocide and depoliticize matters when it suits their uncomfortable zones. Loss of credibility for generations across the world.

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2 years

Found the 1-hour interviews each with two #Vietnam military generals on the 1st anniversary of #Russia 's war on #Ukraine to be overall well-balanced. A large segment of each interview was dedicated to candid reflections on Russia's multifold mistakes. Both view the war as unjust.

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It’s finally out, by two deeply empathetic historians. “The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform” (2024).

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11 months

While @FT and others are comparing Gaza in less than 2 months to Hamburg, Cologne, and Dresden in 6 years, I would also add Vietnam’s Quang Tri. What’s happening to Gaza is similarly extreme.

C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

1 year

Speaking of Germany. Quang Tri is as small as the state of Connecticut, and yet it endured bombings eq. to 7-8 atomic bombs in 1972 alone and more than Germany throughout WWII in 9 years, and was sprayed with 500,000 galloons of Agent Orange. Human life, how indeed precious.

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Increasingly feeling that Gaza will radicalize the youth all over the world more than Iraq ever did. Even seeing more and more Vietnamese Gen Z, usually apolitical, coming out online in support of the Palestinian people & disillusioned about the ‘rules-based order’.

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C Nguyen

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11 months

Both Trump & Biden administrations tried very hard for Indonesia to normalize ties with Israel. This seals its delay for another generation.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

11 months

Israeli tanks have surrounded the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza after artillery fire killed at least 12 Palestinians in the medical complex, according to Gaza's health ministry

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8 months

A reminder that many communist peasant recruits during the Vietnam war were less enlightened by the gospels of Marx, Engels, and Lenin than by the daily intimate experience of humiliation, bombings, and killings of their own family, villagers, compatriots, and ancestral land.

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2 years

I don’t think the escorting of Hu Jintao should be framed as yet another spot of “Western criticism”. I’m scrolling through Vietnamese social media about it, and many have found it culturally off-putting in terms of respect for retired political leaders and the elderly.

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

8 months

Finally watching the drama series “The Long Season” 漫长的季节 that almost everyone that I’ve encountered have said to be among the best made in China in decades, if ever. It’s about how rust-belt workers went through the late 1990s privatisation drive across China’s economy.

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C Nguyen

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4 months

Reading this report from Manila, I won’t forget when the delta variant hit Indonesia, which had been early on from the developing world to order vaccines, all ranging from Sputnik, Sinopharm, Sinovac, to Pfizer. 1/

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3 months

Moscow's enduring clout in places as India and Vietnam comes partly from the latter's deeply shared trauma and memories of the Sino-US rapproachment. Shouldn't be underestimated & explains why they are seizing their favorable intl' situation today unapologetically.

Brahma Chellaney

@Chellaney

3 months

An extract from my article on why the 1971 legacy still haunts the U.S.-India relationship.

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C Nguyen

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3 years

I genuinely do not understand what the social media managers of the US Embassy in Hanoi were thinking when recently deciding to publish a post denying that the US has a history of deploying chemical and biological weapons. Truly bizarre & putting Ukrainian lives at risk

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

5 months

Of all the wars happening around the world, it is really the talk of the town [Gaza/Palestine] among the youth across SE Asia at the moment, including Vietnam. The latter is witnessing perhaps the first and most sustained anti-war online activism among its Gen Z since 1975.

ᴅʀ ʜ.ᴀ. ʜᴇʟʟʏᴇʀ 🖖🏾 ⚜️

@hahellyer

5 months

I was in Singapore recently. Support Palestinians in Israel's war on Gaza is tremendously felt across southeast Asia. Even in Singapore, Israel's closest ally by far in the region, opinion is generally deeply critical of Israel's conduct. I hope American officials take note.

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Visited an officially titled “model village” somewhere in north-central Vietnam. While at the elite level, anti-corruption campaigns dominate most attention, on the ground there has been a visible push for ‘rural rejuvenation’ since the 2021 party congress.

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C Nguyen

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1 year

Sometimes people need to take a break and recover some rationality. I dislike when an entire nation gets portrayed as a Sinophobic zombie country, when the reality is more complicated and eclectic.

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

5 months

Let their reactions to the ICC arrest warrant be remembered as the most outspoken renunciation of any pretentious commitments left to a ‘rules-based order’, now more provingly than ever a ghost word for their hegemony.

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

2 years

For the duration of 1979-89, you will have several ‘Sino-Indian War of 1962’ in terms of military and civilian deaths. It’s only as late as 2009 that most of the occupied land territories since 1979-89 were returned to Vietnam.

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

8 months

The Khmer Rouge were belatedly found guilty of genocide in 2018 for killing ~20,000 ethnic Vietnamese-Cambodians in 4 years (1975-79). The death toll of children in Gaza alone is ~13,000 after only 5 months. Have we all gone mad to this complicity? Modernity, where are you?

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The martyr’s cemeteries from the 1979-89 Sino-Vietnamese War is now among the largest in Vietnam, and continue to expand as the remains of 2,000 and more are still MIA, esp. from *after 1979*.

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

2 years

But the human cost was very bloody. Vietnamese border villagers continued to experience mass artillery campaigns from China during those 10 years. I just think it’s fair to stick to proper facts when it involves so much bloodshed, military and civilian deaths, and trauma.

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C Nguyen

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2 years

This reminds me of how East Asia has a lot to catch up with Southeast Asia when it comes to women’s participation in elite politics.

IG @burhanuddinmuhtadi

@BurhanMuhtadi

2 years

Kemarin saya tunjukkan foto ini kepada putri saya. Dia senang dua orang yg mendampingi presiden dalam acara seprestisius KTT G20 adalah perempuan. Dulu dua srikandi ini satu SMA, kini satu kabinet 👍

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1 year

From this war, it becomes more clear that many people in formal democracies can be as brainwashed and uncritical in thinking as those living in authoritarian states.

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1 year

Whenever I am in Paris, I always make a visit to ‘13 arrondissement’, the district hosting large Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Laotian communities. Hands down, Vietnamese food in Paris has always been much better to me than London.

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C Nguyen

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6 months

Powerful and dignified. What an indictment for those who will look back at this in a few decades time with (opportunistic) regret and remorse.

LivePDDave 🇺🇸

@LivePDDave1

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Police unmask lowlife UCLA protestor for the world to see.👏

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

3 months

An end of an era, Nguyen Phu Trong (1944-2024). But as this photo shows, there will be continuities in Vietnam’s evolving place and self-positioning in the world, and vice versa.

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1 year

@EvanFeigenbaum @POTUS The general secretary rarely receives state-level guests in this manner, unless it's Xi, Kim, and party-level counterparts from Cuba, Laos and so on. Tran Dai Quang (in the photo with Obama) was a president, not general secretary.

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3 months

Seems like a must-read 🙏 “While most investigations of Chinese workers focus on migrant labor, Chinese Workers of the World explores Chinese labor under colonial regimes within China through an examination of the Yunnan-Indochina Railway (1898–1910)”.

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Re: US rejection of Vietnam’s “market economy” status. Liberal critiques often lay blame on Vietnam’s ultimate pursuit of of a market economy with “socialist orientation” as the barrier. Yet they fail to recognise how many of the US’ closest partners, including the Nordics 1/

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One of the more unfortunate eurocentric references to the WWII bombings is to completely ignore Asia (the heaviest death toll), as well as the post-WWII bombing campaigns in Asia, especially central Vietnam alone (the world’s most bombed place in history).

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10 months

“Vietcong are merely puppets of Moscow, Beijing”, “Hamas are merely puppets of Tehran”, this unbroken logic has by recent history unfortunately justified limitless civilian casualties and destructions; when genuine political grievances and aspirations on the ground are reduced to

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2 years

Today, I’m about to realize one lifetime goal since I arrived in Indonesia 🇮🇩 in 2019: visiting and paying respect to the Vietnam Galang Refugee Camp (“Kampung Vietnam”) (1976-1996). Forever not an erasable history. Relieving to be able to fulfill this goal before leaving soon.

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2 months

According to a Vietnamese diplomat, an Ivy League university ( @Columbia ) is about to pursue plans setting up a campus in Vietnam. If successful, it will be the first-ever Ivy League campus in Southeast Asia, a major accomplishment of Vietnamese diplomacy.

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C Nguyen

@CNguyenEc

9 months

Hardly anyone denies that Vietnam has undergone profound, almost miraculous, economic uplifting in the last 30-40 years. But increasingly, the social culture among the youth & noveau-rich is getting depressive, with social media full of flaunting and worshipping for wealth.

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Vietnam's new communist party chief, Tô Lâm, today begins his visit to the US, where he'll attend #UNGA79 and visit major US tech & military firms, and universities ( @Columbia ). 🇺🇸 My impression of his leadership characteristics so far 1/🧵

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@CNguyenEc

7 months

These penalty systems are truly a disgrace. A kind of dystopian modernity that make us less human and mindful in the end. These practices truly need labour regulation.

Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋

@Yaqiu

7 months

Painful to watch. Chinese working class’s plight in a nutshell. A delivery man was stopped after running a red light and hitting a person. He broke down and kept hitting his head with a helmet: “[I’m] running late,” (which means penalty by delivery app.)

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2 years

@lena_ingenue @katherinemzhou Overall I also share your experience (I am Norwegian-born of foreign descent, grew up in the capital city). There are many issues of concern that those of foreign descent among us discuss in private, but somehow racism is a topic rarely raised.

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800,000 fleeing from floods in Bangladesh. 670 dead from landslide in Papua New Guinea. 190 killed in Sudan. 100s killed in Rafah. Rohingyas being killed again. All news in the last 24 hours only. Surely we are on the path to sustainable development and future.

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3 years

Well into my year 2 of not being with husband and family. Saw this video from a makeshift hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, and thinking how hard it has been lately esp for children. Happy #MidAutumnFestival #T ếtTrungThu by Nguyen Phi Hung.

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1 year

The contrast between major Southeast Asia vs. South Asia/Africa seem very vast in female literacy rates at the primary school level. Why are Vietnam’s schools so good?

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1 year

US strikes big diplomatic victories in New Delhi and Hanoi in less than 48 hours.

Tat Thanh

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1 year

Vietnam 🇻🇳 and the United States 🇺🇸 have upgraded our bilateral relations to Comprehensive Strategic Partnership!

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“Why didn’t you become like Dubai? Singapore?” Often these questions are made out of pre-determined prejudice and condescension, not out of genuine goodwill and honesty.

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Biden in Vietnam: Biden Forges Deeper Ties With ‘Critical’ Partner in Hanoi (Published 2023)

President Biden and the Vietnamese leader Nguyen Phu Trong marked a new phase in the U.S.-Vietnam relationship amid China’s mounting ambitions. “The United States is a Pacific nation, and we’re not...

www.nytimes.com

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The South China Sea obviously comes to most people’s minds when they think about the overall security tensions involving Asean. But Vietnam-Cambodia ties are currently downtailing and very bad, to be frank.

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2 years

I must say that this Vietnamese propaganda poster is very deep. This month marks the 50th anniversary of “Operation Linebacker II”, a US bombing campaign across northern Vietnam and the largest heavy bomber use by the US Air Force since WWII.

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2 years

I’m making this criticism as someone who’s supreme priority is for the survival of the Ukrainian people as a sovereign nation against an imperial invader. A civilizational approach to ultimately shared world problems is only self-constraining to your own international appeal.

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in defying Russia and China (without simultaneously manifesting as pro-West) in recognition of the inherent multi-pluralities of nation-state interests within the global south alone. Diplomatic pressures and bullying lately have not only come from Western governments.

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No other countries in the world than the US and UK have such incredible and vast talent and expertise pools. Yet, the quality of their political leaderships in the past decades have been appalling. Exemplary of how plutocracy alone, even in democracies, can break societies apart.

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1 year

From @prachatai . No less than epoch-making and an earthquake in modern Thai political history. Only a few weeks ago, elites from the traditional conservative parties were smirkingly laughing at the new Move Forward Party & agency of Thai youth. #ThaiElection2023

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In a key interview ahead of Biden’s arrival, Vietnam said that his visit demonstrates the US’ “respect for Vietnam’s political system, the communist party, the general secretary, and its leadership”. The photo above suggests an elevated mutual trust.

Tổng thống Mỹ Joe Biden thăm Việt Nam: Một chuyến thăm rất đặc biệt

(Chinhphu.vn) - Theo Thứ trưởng Bộ Ngoại giao Hà Kim Ngọc, chuyến thăm của Tổng thống Hoa Kỳ Joe Biden đến Việt Nam là một chuyến thăm rất đặc biệt.

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One can always (and should) debate about the inconsistencies of historical global anti-war movements, as 1968. But to me, students who stood up for Vietnamese children who were being bombed and intoxicated were on the right side of history and conscience. So are those in 2023-24.

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Kissinger was taken seriously in Vietnam. No one doubted that he was an outstanding diplomat - to his own country. But he was & is studied seriously for the reason that Vietnam will never again shed as much blood from great power competitions as in the 20th century.

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I think the Palestinian genocide by now surpasses any previous wars. Not by scale of ordnances, suffering & losses, but by a complicity in light of a fully-transparent traditional & social media around the world; beautified in the name of the liberal rules-based order.

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I don’t think that Blinken’s abrupt absence from Vietnam’s state funeral by itself is a big deal. But when it happens alongside widespread praise on Vietnam’s internet for Wang Huning & overall Chinese leadership’s etiquette of condolences, the optics aren’t optimal.

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1 year

Really among the best articles that I have read on the rising clout of 'a global south', and whose points I am also the most sympathetic to. "But Lula represents the developing world’s best shot at leading a global non-alignment movement."

A New Non-Alignment | Tim Sahay

The BRICS’ new bargaining chip?

www.phenomenalworld.org

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In recent years, quite a few past leaders of 🇻🇳 Vietnam, all significantly consequential ranging from market economic reforms to wartime trajectories, passed away. But the ongoing scale and spread of public outpouring for Nguyen Phu Trong stands out from the rest.

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This article blames the West, which is in due course. But should have mentioned Zelensky. No leader espoused as much support for Israel’s unrestrained exercise of self-defense as him. He lost the Arab/Muslim world, and got nothing back from Israel.

Tobita Chow

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“What we said about Ukraine has to apply to Gaza. Otherwise we lose all our credibility,” the senior G7 diplomat added. “The Brazilians, the South Africans, the Indonesians: why should they ever believe what we say about human rights?”

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40th anniversary of the Battle of Vị Xuyên (老山 in Chinese), 1984-2024. The bloodiest Sino-Vietnamese battle since 1979, with daily combat losses in the near two-thousands at times for PAVN. Former president, Trương Tấn Sang, was seen accompanying the coffin of a PAVN MIA.

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2 years

was never about promoting a civilizational worldvision of decoloniality, but about universality of national liberation, solidarity, civil rights struggles across the world, particularly in the ‘lands of enemy governments’ (e.g. the US, France).

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Beside the family exterminations, among the most poignant aspects of the #Gaza assault is how many overseas-trained young medics, having won prestigious scholarships, willingly returned to their besieged homeland to serve it, and in the end still get killed.

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Most Indonesians around me are fairly compliant with mask-wearing 😷 during #EidMubarak2022 celebrations. How come that many Westerners get to view this part of the world as less civilized? Most people here don’t act like children when it comes to mask-wearing.

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I don’t know about others, but the scenes of babies taken out of the incubators, crying in agony inside Al-Shifa hospital, and broadcasted globally for the world to see will never be taken out of my living memory. A stain on humanity, a point of shame.

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I am very fascinated by this photo of Kim Jong Un and his Chinese counterparts. Lots of confidence in seemingly geopolitically favorable times for the DPRK. China looks more tired than annoyed…

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What I noticed while in China in the mid-2010s, and from 2017 and onwards in Vietnam: the extreme popularity of Tibetan Buddhism among super-wealthy households.

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Fact-checking. 1) That self-designed flag belongs to a random student on Reddit for his/her school project, 2) That map belongs to French Indochina pre-1946. Disturbing misinformation.

DaiWW

@BeijingDai

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Vietnam's ambitions in 1975 An "Indochina Federation" consisting of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and part of Thai territory.

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Speaking of Germany. Quang Tri is as small as the state of Connecticut, and yet it endured bombings eq. to 7-8 atomic bombs in 1972 alone and more than Germany throughout WWII in 9 years, and was sprayed with 500,000 galloons of Agent Orange. Human life, how indeed precious.

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There is a certain mutuality of tolerance across Washington and and Moscow when it comes to Vietnam. The US understands the indispensability of Moscow to Vietnam’s modern founding and security, from energy to military. Moscow understands the indispensability of Western markets 1/

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Understandably, comparisons between Ukraine and 20th-century wartime communist Vietnam(s) have been made. But when it comes to their political nature, translated into their respective approaches to wartime diplomacy, they are vastly different. The latter’s wartime diplomacy…

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45 years ago. In 2023, the first-ever book on the Sino-Vietnamese War (a memoir by army medics) was released in Vietnam. They cried during the book launch. There are many untreated, big scars in people’s hearts from this war, a historical mistake to China’s neighbour policy.

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“Associating BRICS with the Global South and imagining this week’s summit as a ‘New Bandung’ does great disservice to the origins and evolution of the non-aligned movement” 👏👏👏

C. Raja Mohan

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On the the BRICS’ illusion and reality:

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My new op-ed for @rosaluxglobal : "Gaza, Ukraine, and the Moral Bankruptcy of the Rules-Based Order”

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I also have a hard time believing that a country, which accounted for 80% of the rise in the global extreme poor during Covid-19 and criticized for delaying poverty stats since 2011, is now close to eliminating extreme poverty.

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It’s been an obvious & visible trend in recent years how many more Vietnamese tourists & businesses are visiting China, sharing overall very positive impressions (hence why I find most intl’ media portrayals beyond much recognition to the on the ground realities). 1/

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In a rare move, Vietnam’s PM today paid a visit to a war cementary that hosts many Vietnamese martyrs from the 1979-89 Sino-Vietnamese War.

Chùm ảnh: Thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính viếng Nghĩa trang Liệt sĩ quốc gia Vị Xuyên, tỉnh Hà Giang

(Chinhphu.vn) - Sáng 28/5, trong chương trình công tác tại Hà Giang, Thủ tướng Phạm Minh Chính và đoàn công tác đã tới Nghĩa trang Liệt sĩ quốc gia Vị Xuyên dâng hương tưởng nhớ các anh hùng, liệt sĩ.

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I don’t like the word ‘mistake’ when policy elites have been reflecting on their role in the Iraq war in recent days. In my parents’ hometown, there are 371 living children born with defects of the Agent Orange. They are the third generation, doomed for the rest of their lives.

Lynzy Billing

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“If you travel to any village in Iraq, you will find contamination, radiation, and cancers. This is the legacy of the American invasion and the wars that came before it — everyone left their waste behind.”

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45 years ago. The world has an obligation to end many current genocides.

Khmer Rouge History - (This Day in 1979)

@realtimeKR

10 months

Jan. 7, 1979: With little resistance, Vietnamese troops take #PhnomPenh ending the three years, eight months and twenty days the #KhmerRouge ruled #Cambodia . At least 1.7 million people died in labor camps, prisons and killing fields due to executions, disease and starvation.

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Hopefully, #Vietnam Ho Chi Minh City’s Metro Line 1 (Bến Thành-Suối Tiên) will be in operation from Q3-2024. 🇻🇳 🇯🇵

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1 year

The death toll of children is nearing 1/2 of the total. In my living memory, I have not seen such a high concentration of child deaths in any war or conflict.

Defense for Children

@DCIPalestine

1 year

GAZA UPDATE: 1,661 Palestinian children are confirmed killed by the Israeli military offensive on the Gaza Strip since October 7, according to the Ministry of Health. More than 4,000 Palestinian children are injured and hundreds are still missing under the rubble.

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@CNguyenEc

1 year

Their moral bankruptcy should have been cemented in everyone’s memory when they sustained the genocidal Khmer Rouge at the UN and in the jungles in 1979-93. What is happening in Gaza is another such reminder, when all pretense of universal human rights is nakedly thrown away.

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@CNguyenEc

1 year

How they can forget their wars in Vietnam and Iraq. 1972 in Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Tri alone…entire families and cities obliterated and toxicated fot generations. Memories of the B-52 bombings, unforgettable.

Brian Finucane

@BCFinucane

1 year

One of the (many) problems with invoking military “precedents” from WWII in defense of obliterating cities full of civilians is that there have been quite a few subsequent developments in the law of war since then.

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@CNguyenEc

7 months

US air drops in Gaza kill 5 children. Just imagine your own kid getting smashed onto their heads by these heavy loads from the skies. Some lives are indeed so worthless to the world who find attacks on “freedom of navigation” more inhumane, while being silent on this. Numb.

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@CNguyenEc

3 years

One of Indonesia’s epicentres, Jakarta, has now achieved a fully vaccinated rate of 69.6%. Largely fast-paced during the most recent 2-month lockdown against the Delta outbreak. Daily deaths are now below 20.

yudith ho

@yudithho

3 years

Indonesia's Covid-19 positivity rate fell to 4.43% on Monday -- the first time in the pandemic that it's met the WHO’s recommendation of below 5%. The rate signals whether enough testing is being done to track the spread of infections. By @ClaireJiao

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@CNguyenEc

1 year

Whether these different non-alignments are anything inherently progressive (i.e. reform/challenging the US-led liberal order) is a whole different question, and which I'm less optimistic about. 'Non-aligned' nowadays can also imply being apolitical and yet still pro-capital.

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@CNguyenEc

2 years

Indonesian ‘sambal’ (chilli sauce/paste with a variety of types, e.g. onion, fish) from Indoculinaire highly recommended. Me and my husband are addicted to sambal. We can eat it with plain rice alone and be satisfied for the rest of the day.

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@CNguyenEc

1 year

I don’t care about Kissinger’s “intellectual brilliance” that the cult is often coldly drawn by, but by what he did with it with actual human lives across Indochina as a butcher in the 20th century.

Rory Medcalf

@Rory_Medcalf

1 year

Essential viewing for all - left, right and centre - who have been so weirdly beguiled by the cult of Kissinger. And this is just the stuff he did wrong, not the stuff he got wrong

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@CNguyenEc

5 months

In Asia, most publicly-visible anti-war marches are happening in Tokyo and Seoul, including its universities. 100 years ago, this would include places as Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong. This reflect a lot about their changing degrees of being global political cosmopalities.

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@CNguyenEc

10 months

I don’t sympathize with “oppression/suffering olympics”. Anyone with a dose of honesty better confess that it’s going disastrous for Palestinians and Ukrainians at the moment. International supporters who pit their difficulties against each other are their worst friends.

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@CNguyenEc

6 months

China and Vietnam did not grow out of improved ties with the US alone, but also of normalized ties & deep integration into a regional cluster of other established and emerging 'tigers' (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Asean), esp. for supply chains of inputs & manufacturing know-how.

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@CNguyenEc

11 months

An essential, but often neglected point. Cambodia was left with less than 400 medical doctors (population: 8 million) after its genocide. Medical professionals were actively targeted for execution, medical facilities emptied, modern medicine shunned.

Prof. Hanna Kienzler 🧡 🇵🇸

@HannaKienzler

11 months

The killing of doctors forms a central part of a #genocide . It is a #WarCrime as their death ensures that those in need can't get life saving care for illnesses related and unrelated to the war. #CeasefireNowInGaza #StopTheWarNow #GazaGenocide

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@CNguyenEc

1 year

I think for Vietnam (not globally), Biden’s visit will be as historically significant as Deng’s trip to the US in January 1979, especially in the realm of Vietnam’s single-focused pursuit of economic modernization and external know-how to tackle its burgeoning climate problems.

Jonathan London

@jdlondon1

1 year

My thoughts on Biden's upcoming Hanoi visit.

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