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Le Hong Hiep

Le Hong Hiep

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Le Hong Hiep is a fellow at the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore, and the author of Living Next to the Giant: The Political Economy of Vietnam’s Relations With China Under Doi Moi.

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  1. The Vietnam Model for North Korea
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    The Vietnam Model for North Korea

    Feb 26, 2019 Le Hong Hiep says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un should look to Hanoi for lessons in US relations and economic reform.

  2. Lies, Damn Lies, and Vietnam’s Trade Statistics
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    Lies, Damn Lies, and Vietnam’s Trade Statistics

    Apr 27, 2018 Le Hong Hiep sees mixed messages in data suggesting that China has overtaken the US as Vietnam’s top export market.

  3. Asia’s Evolving Security Order
    Shinzo Abe and his Vietnamese counterpart Luong Thai Linh/Getty Images

    Asia’s Evolving Security Order

    Aug 7, 2017 Le Hong Hiep assesses the wider significance of ever-deepening defense cooperation between Japan and Vietnam.

  4. The Trump-Xi Strategic Face-Off
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    The Trump-Xi Strategic Face-Off

    Apr 6, 2017 Le Hong Hiep predicts that the US president will extract few if any concessions from his Chinese counterpart.

  5. Southeast Asia Gets Trumped?
    Obama at ASEAN Summit in 2014 Paula Bronstein/Stringer

    Southeast Asia Gets Trumped?

    Nov 12, 2016 Le Hong Hiep fears that America's next president will reverse Obama's hard-earned progress in the region.

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    Economists’ Way Out of the Wilderness

    James K. Galbraith argues that the continued dominance of nineteenth-century thinking has resulted in a catalogue of failure.
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    Trump the Revolutionary Isolationist

    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    America's president subscribes to a brand of isolationism that has waxed and waned throughout US history, but has its roots in the two-century-old Monroe Doctrine. This is bad news for nearly everyone, because it implies acceptance of a world order based on spheres of influence, as envisioned by China and Russia.

     hears echoes of the Monroe Doctrine in the US president's threats to acquire Greenland.
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    How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

    Glenn Hubbard urges policymakers to focus on the three pillars of increased productivity.
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    Trump’s First Test Will Be the Bond Market

    Jim O'Neill

    Financial markets and official economic indicators over the past few weeks give policymakers around the world plenty to contemplate. Was the recent spike in bond yields a sufficient warning to Donald Trump and his team, or will they still follow through with inflationary stimulus, tariff, and immigration policies?

     wonders if recent market signals will keep the new administration’s radicalism in check.
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    The TikTok Boomerang

    Angela Huyue Zhang thinks the US government's ban on the app has left it in an untenable position.
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    Turning the Financial Tide for Small Island States

    Maya Delaney & Aminath Shauna tout the potential of green and blue bonds to protect critical ecosystems and build economic resilience.
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    School Meals Provide Food for Thought – and Fuel for Development

    Gordon Brown & Kevin Watkins tout universal nutrition programs in lower-income countries to mitigate a lost decade for poor children.
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    A House Gutted by Fire

    Terry Lynn Karl blames the inferno now consuming Los Angeles County squarely on greenhouse-gas emissions.
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    False Economies

    William H. Janeway highlights the high cost of the single-minded focus on efficiency that has come to dominate the discipline.

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