Vietnam – World map

20Jun

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

Asia, Vietnam

and vietnam, hein?

Photo of Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum I have read little about Vietnam in our media. I chose to deal with it when I read this month’s “The Diplomat” article, intitulado “Remembering Vietnam´s Great Famine”, by French-Vietnamese analyst Christelle Nguyen. Contextualizing, The Investment Bank “Goldman Sachs”, the same as in a study of 2001 of its then chief economist, Jim O´Neil, intitulado “Building Better Global Economic BRICs”, formulated the concept of emerging economies that would succeed advanced ones in the leading role of globalization, launched, in 2005, the concept of “Next Eleven”, the set of eleven countries with the potential to appear together with the BRICS among the largest economies in this century. The criteria adopted were factors such as stability...

And the ship goes… return to the bipolar world?

25Nov

By Fausto GodoyNo Comments

Asia, Brunei, Cambodia, Philippines, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

And the ship goes… return to the bipolar world?

After eight years of negotiations, and by video conference due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen countries in Asia and two in Oceania signed, in day 15 this month of november, the “Comprehensive Regional Economic Partnership” / RCEP. For it they pledged to leverage free trade relations in the Asia-Pacific region. The document, that brought together the ten member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations / ASEAN- Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Brunei, Cambodia, Singapore, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam - and the five Free Trade Area partners (ALC) Association - China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and South Korea - provides for the reduction of tariffs and the opening of trade in services throughout the block. The India, who participated in the negotiations, decided not to join this stage for the ...

Authoritarianism: the double-edged sword of Southeast Asia

29Jun

By Anne Marie Gattini NassifNo Comments

Asia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

Authoritarianism: the double-edged sword of Southeast Asia

PAD Demonstration. Sukhumvit Road. Bangkok. 20th October 2008. The word diversity can define Southeast Asia. There are so many dialects, ethnicities, peoples and religions in just 4.100.000 km², that the uniqueness of the region and the entire subcontinent becomes consensual. A China de Mao Zedong, is a pattern that is repeated today in Southeast Asia, when the authoritarian government took the first steps to eradicate poverty and homogenize the population creating the mainstays of contemporary China. The process was driven by Deng Xiaoping, in 1979, when starting the opening of the country to the world. Like a mirror, the southeast asia, marked by such culturally different countries has been converging in an intriguing pattern: fragile democracies, authoritarian governments and the general development of ...

2Jun

By Anne Marie Gattini NassifNo Comments

Asia, Vietnam

Vietnam and the new coronavirus

Vietnam had several factors that could lead the coronavirus to a public health crisis, starting with the extensive border with China, first epicenter of the pandemic, a high population density with low per capita income and a precarious health system. However, the country drew the attention of the international media for the mastery that has been controlling the number of cases and mainly, the number of deaths from the disease. The first cases in the country occurred in late January, from neighboring countries. Logo, the government stopped flights from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan and shortly thereafter closed all borders. Fast and accurate measurement was essential for successful control against the virus. The fragile health system would not allow a large nude to be purchased...