Graduate students—come intern with AAS! We are now accepting applications for our Fall 2024/Academic year 2024-25 internship program. Onsite work at our Ann Arbor office is preferred, but remote positions are available. asianstudies.org/jobs-professio…

Part of Vietnamese communism's veneration of Ho Chi Minh was the idea and myth that he was a lifelong celibate revolutionary, that he was involuntarily celibate owing to the necessary workmanlike toil on the sacred revolutionary path. But in fact, Ho Chi Minh did have a Cantonese

Philippines and Vietnam to sign defence agreement channelnewsasia.com/asia/south-chi…

And it continues! #ChineseCoastGuard ramming into #Philippines vessels. This incident was reported by Jay Tarriela, which seems to have taken place today itself!

Brian McAllister Linn retired from the faculty at Texas A&M yesterday. Congrats from MHPT on an impactful career that influenced a generation of military historians. We hope you will still find the time to wander around Lisbon with us!

The United States stands with our Philippine allies and condemns the dangerous and escalatory actions by the PRC against lawful Philippine maritime operations in the vicinity of Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea.

Fun fact: Vietnam is the oldest surviving communist state in the world, having been established in 1945, 3 years before the DPRK, 4 years before the PRC, 14 years before the Cuban revolution, and 30 years before the Laotian communist takeover. Happy Vietnam’s Independence Day!

(1/2) People gather at Ba Đình Square in front of Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum this morning to celebrate #Vietnam's National Day. 📸 VNA/VNS Photos

I spoke to the wonderful Cindy Yu for her Chinese Whispers podcast about the unlikely origins of China’s claims in the South China Sea. How national enthusiasm combined with a few translation mistakes in the 1930s to create the nine-dash line… podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/chi…

Just received Dr Yakov Feygin’s Yakov Feygin latest book on Soviet economic reform & how it in the end failed to solve its relationship with an emerging global, capitalist economic order.

I'd recommend Jeff Wasserstrom edited volume "Oxford History of Modern China" if they are looking for the longer history. If they really just want the PRC, then the second half of Tony Saich's "From Rebel to Ruler: One Hundred Years of the Chinese Communist Party"

My latest with Gian Gentile, looking at historical cases where lines of operation mattered, and how they still do for Ukraine's incursion into Kursk. realcleardefense.com/articles/2024/…

Teaching my modern China survey and once again drawing from the important lessons in the essays in the "Teaching the PRC" issue of The PRC History Review (PRC History Group, coedited with Covell Meyskens). Highly recommended for anyone teaching China this semester! prchistory.org/review-october…

Pro-CCP activists harassed anti-Xi Jinping protesters in San Francisco. Lots of United Front proxies named in this story and evidence of coordination by PRC consular reps. washingtonpost.com/world/interact…

The New York Times to open a bureau in Vietnam? Apparently so - starting October.

The New York Times licensed to open bureau in Viet Nam en.baochinhphu.vn/the-new-york-t…

SpaceX willing to provide Starlink satellite Internet services in Viet Nam en.baochinhphu.vn/spacex-willing…

Fulbright University Vietnam (FUV) is set to host To Lam in the coming weeks. The trip comes on the heels of accusations from a military newspaper that FUV was guilty of fomenting a color revolution.

Wow, Lien-Hang is set to host To Lam at Columbia University later this month.