In one of the most important cases of the social media age, free speech and national security collide at the Supreme Court on Friday, January 10, 2025, in arguments over the fate of TikTok, a wildly popular digital platform that roughly half of the people in the...
SIU and Distinguished Scholars and Leaders Call for Unity to Realize AIWS Government 24/7 and BAI
On January 11, 2025, in Ho Chi Minh City, during the Saigon International University (SIU) Prize Computer Science Award Ceremony and the SIU Shaping Futures international conference on “AI for a Better World,” distinguished SIU Prize Laureates, SIU Prize Candidates,...
The Pillars’ domestic frictions: Four Pillars mini
Outside of international collaboration between states, the Pillars also have to manage and navigate their own internal frictions and affairs. Let us take a look at the handful of discourses plaguing the Pillars domestically: How NAFTA Broke American Politics [New York...
Nguyen Anh Tuan on KTV about Nha Trang Spark Initiative
BGF CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan to Highlight Nha Trang Spark on Vietnam National Day 2024 On Vietnam National Day, September 2, 2024, at 4:00 pm Vietnam time, Boston Global Forum (BGF) CEO Nguyen Anh Tuan and Mark Kennedy, Director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for...
The legacy of Shinzo Abe, 2015 World Leader for Peace and Security Award recipient: Indo-Pacific, and Japan’s strategy for navigating an uncertain U.S. election
With the election of Trump in November 2016, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, 2015 World Leader for Peace and Security Award Recipient, proactively engaged with his administration to help contribute to shaping its decisions rather than being shaped by them. At the...
Mark Kennedy Visits Vietnam to Strengthen Indo-Pacific Economic Ties
Mark Kennedy, Director of the Wilson Center’s Wahba Institute for Strategic Competition and a member of Boston Global Forum’s Board of Thinkers, will visit Vietnam from August 31 to September 7, 2024. The purpose of the visit is to gain deep insights into Vietnam’s...
Incursion in Kursk and hidden wars elsewhere: Four Pillars week
While Ukraine fights on and continues making small gains in its incursion into Kursk Oblast against Russia, this offensive has revealed many topics of interests for the Four Pillars: Ukraine keeps crossing Russia’s red lines. Putin keeps blinking. [Washington Post]...
BGF and POW Partnership for G20 – Women Leadership in the Age of AI and AIWS
After a successful debut in 2023, Power Of Women (POW) has partnered with G20 Social, W20, and Civil 20 in 2024 to broaden social participation in the G20 forum, with an eye on the role of women and their allies. This year, the 2nd Digital Power Of Women (DPOW)...