Nguyen Anh Tuan Boston, October 8, 2023 Governor Michael Dukakis has been a beacon of inspiration and leadership throughout my journey over the past decade. His warm welcome letter in July 2011, shortly after I arrived in Boston, was my first encounter with the man...
Minh Nguyen is the Editor of the Boston Global Forum and a Shinzo Abe Initiative Fellow. She writes the Four Pillars column in the BGF...
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on July 1 that Russia might move its troops closer to the Finnish-Russian border if Finland joins NATO. Finland, Poland and the Baltic Republics have been subjected to Russian air force and naval incursions and...
Satellite imagery suggests that China might be punishing its ally North Korea for its nuclear-weapons tests by sharply restricting trade between the two dictatorships. “It is apparent that shortly after North Korea did the fourth nuclear test in January, China took...
In a redomination of its currency, Belarus is cutting four zeroes off the face value of the ruble as the country, which is virtually a satellite of Russia, struggles with recession. It's the third redomination in the nation of 10 million since it became...
Chinese President Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of ideological orthodoxy to ensure the power and legitimacy of Communist Party rule. “The wavering of idealistic faith is the most dangerous form of wavering,” Mr. Xi told an assembly of party officials...
The European Union may not seem democratic but it is, mostly. Amanda Taub writes in The New York Times: "{W}hile defenders of the European Union have evidence to show that the bloc is democratic, this misses the point. Democracy, after all, is about more than...
Mountains in northern Yemen. Many Yemenis find themselves trapped on Yemen's long and complicated civil war. The Washington Post reports that the "conflict holds enormous stakes for Washington and its allies. Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest nation, straddles vital...