China's BRI is a spatio-temporal fix for industrial overcapacity & over-accumulated capital. OTOH, in the US, there is infrastructural decay, industrial hollowing-out, & a dominant financial sector largely uninterested in investing in infrastructure abroad journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Bang Faisal Basri passed away today. Behind the scene, he helped me a lot in understanding about nickel investment in Indonesia. He helped me working on this theguardian.com/global-develop… Let us remember Bang Faisal for his contributions and the impact he made on our work and lives 🙏🏽

I've read through Oliver Kim and Jen-Kuan Wang's paper. In short, this empirical study is groundbreaking. It provides evidence for what some historians have been arguing: Taiwan's land reform success has been exaggerated and turned into a miracle narrative. Thread (1/15)

Interview in Vietnamese with Lea Ypi of LSE Government on her latest book memoir, “Free”, published in the weekend outlet of Báo Tuổi Trẻ (Tuổi Trẻ Cười, belongs to the Ho Chi Minh City communist youth league).

This interview on freedom, hope and the role of art in the public sphere, published in Tuổi Trẻ Cườ, the weekend outlet of @baotuoitre was a perfect wrap up to my memorable Vietnam visit 😍🇻🇳🌹! Thank you to everyone who organised and came to the events!

“Teachers with happiness shall change the world”. I gave this Vietnamese (modern) calligraphy as a birthday gift to my husband.

The human, material, and environmental losses from #TyphoonYagi across northern Vietnam are devastating, unending yet. Maybe the worst in 100 years. Not seen such national outpouring, mobilisation, and solidarity since 1980s for the northern border regions. A national tragedy.

Some of the themes of Vassily Grossman’s LIFE AND FATE are subtle. Some are counterintuitive. But one reoccurring theme is the value—the superiority, even—of kindness.

An entire village in Lao Cai province was wiped out, with +100 feared dead. Saw a surviving mother in tearful agony over her 2 children: “Heaven, I promise to never ever spank [physically discipline] my children again, why did you take them away from me”💔france24.com/en/live-news/2…

New open access article written with a wonderful team of comrades in Finance & Space, where we analyse the evolving relationship between resurgent state capitalism and neoliberalism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Jack Taggart Imogen Liu Steve Rolfe Boudoir Glamour Photography quick 🧵 below:

My best experience as an academic has been teaching at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Saigon and Hanoi. The students were always wonderful. And as a bonus, I also got to spend a few hours with the legend Bao Ninh, whose "The Sorrow of War" still haunts me.

Reporter Lam Le talks about making the latest episode of Gig Workers Rising, our collaboration with @contextnewsroom, about the effects extreme weather is having on delivery workers in Vietnam Watch the full video restofworld.org/2024/gig-worke…

Forcing a country to borrow from the private market at 11% should never be the result of an IMF policy -- if this really was done as a financing assurance, those financing assurances need to be rethought (h/t Murtaza Syed) 1/x profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2024/09/14/gov…

Soviet tantrum towards Albania 🇦🇱 with Vietnamese 🇻🇳characteristics. In Radchenko (2024)'s "To Run The World".