🚨Last chance to book! Join us for a webinar, 'The Second Trump Administration: A Changing International Order', with Hitoshi Tanaka and @billhayton.bsky.social Wednesday 18 June, 10am - 11am (UK) / 6pm - 7pm (JP) Learn more and book your place: dajf.org.uk/event/the-se...

A cautionary tale for academic journal editors. Every single one of these very convincing-looking references is fake. Thanks AI for making us all more suspicious of each other and raising the barriers to publication...

Just what is Vietnam celebrating this week? It's not actually 'reunification'... by me rsaa.org.uk/blog/what-do...

Just what is Vietnam celebrating this week? It's not actually 'reunification'... by me rsaa.org.uk/blog/what-do...

The dilemma faced by Western governments and aid agencies is how to get support to those who need it without it being diverted to Myanmar's military junta, writes @billhayton.bsky.social.

Trump Is Turning Out To Be a Very Pro-China President @nahaltoosi.bsky.social makes a provocative and persuasive argument. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Some thoughts of mine in here… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...

lareviewofbooks.org/article/resp... new piece by Jeremy Murray up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social that might interest @billhayton.bsky.social & @ncuscr.bsky.social among others, given its implications for not just the US but also China & maritime issues

Some thoughts of mine in this. ‘Very striking’: China and Vietnam tighten ties in a ‘3+3’ strategic pivot sc.mp/msah1?utm_so... via @scmpnews.bsky.social

Know any 21-28 year-olds looking to travel for research in Asia? Tell them about this. Deadline is 31 Jan… rsaa.org.uk/awards/the-r...

Is this to be China’s new talking point? After a few years of leaving Vietnam alone, Chinese voices now talking up a ‘threat’ from VN in the South China Sea t.co/R2Y86yv3hV

The Book Review editors at JVS were pleased to convene contributors including Tuong Vu, Harriet M. Phinney, @billhayton.bsky.social, and Ivan V. Small for a roundtable review of the recently published Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam, edited by Jonathan London. 10/

Something I've noticed about the UK 'assisted dying' debate is that - over the past 34 years, MPs' mentions of 'palliative care' peak when the question of assisted dying is being debated. But once the debate is done, MPs forget about palliative care. Here's the Hansard ngram...

China's new self-declared 'baseline' around Scarborough Shoal - almost in compliance with international law (except for being entirely without historical justification) asiatimes.com/2024/11/did-...

Fascinating interview with the recently jailed Vietnamese journalist and author Huy Đức by @pzinoman.bsky.social online.ucpress.edu/jvs/article/...

In 2023 the world thought China was building a 600-metre long airstrip on Triton Island. Maxar images 📸 reveal however the PLA has instead been upgrading its signals intelligence facilities. I recently wrote for Chatham House (@theworldtoday.bsky.social) on 🇨🇳's activities in the South China Sea.

"the 'Han man’s burden' of civilizing the unruly frontier barbarians has always undergirded the modern Chinese state’s worldview. Diversity was something that had to be temporarily tolerated but ultimately overcomethrough colonial occupation..." cambridge.org/core/service...

Great to meet a couple of journalistic legends and veteran ‘Asia Hands’ - Jon Swain and Michael Sheridan - at Michael’s book talk today.

🇸🇬 PM Lawrence Wong meets🇨🇳state chairman Xi Jinping @ APEC. Issues statement about🇸🇬‘s “one China” policy. Xinhua erroneously states this as reiterating🇨🇳’s “one China principle.” www.mfa.gov.sg/Newsroom/Pre... english.news.cn/20241116/742...

"The new Vietnamese leadership has already made several surprising moves... Yet, given their backgrounds, the new leaders likely think that their most trusted friends are in Beijing and Moscow" www.iiss.org/publications...

South China Sea: the struggle for power in Asia (2014) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Vietnam: Rising Dragon (2020, 2nd Ed) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

A Brief History of Vietnam (2022) www.tuttlepublishing.com/vietnam/a-br...

The Invention of China (2020) yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...