In The News
Commentary
U.S. State Department, Freedom House, et al. (4/30/2020): Consulted to provide expertise on "patterns of autocracy" in Cambodia
El Mercurio (Chilean newspaper) (4/26/2020): Chinese diplomacy shows its teeth (in Spanish)
Voice of America Khmer (12/13/2019): Analyst: Hun Sen can overcome Western pressure with China backing (in Khmer)
Public Radio International (7/24/2019): The World: Agent Orange (borrowed audio from interviews my The Atlantic story)
ABC News (1/12/2019): Cambodian refugees deported back to nation 40 years after genocide (TV appearance)
Newsy (12/14/2018): Trump administration looks to deport Vietnamese refugees (TV appearance) (video available upon request)
Scholarly and Political Coverage
Foundation for East [South China] Sea Studies (5/29/2020): International perspectives (in Vietnamese)
Heritage Foundation (5/5/2020): NATO's role in pandemic response
China Heritage (5/3/2020): Wolves everywhere under heaven –– China's covid-19 global diplomacy
U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (Congressional body) (5/1/2020): China's engagement with Africa
Congressional Research Service (4/30/2020): COVID-19: potential implications for international security environment
Foundation for East [South China] Sea Studies (3/17/2020): Potential U.S.-ASEAN relations (in Vietnamese)
Atlantic Council (1/2020): Democracy under siege: advancing cooperation and common values in the Indo-Pacific
Atlantische Commissie (10/3/2019): Do the Chinese get Hun Sen? (in Dutch)
Asian American Law Journal (9/30/2019): California divided: the restrictions and vulnerabilities in implementing SB 54
Heritage Foundation (7/30/2019): Testimony on human rights in Cambodia to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Marshall Project (4/17/2019): Vietnam War: a curated collection of links
Congressional Research Service (1/28/2019): Cambodia: background and U.S. relations
The Democratic Party (1/16/2019): ICYMI: The Atlantic: Cambodian deportees return to a ‘home’ they’ve never known
U.S. Senate (12/21/2018): Letter to the Department of Homeland Security re Southeast Asian deportations
U.S. House of Representatives (12/19/2018): Letter to Department of Homeland Security re Southeast Asian deportations
Former Secretary of State John Kerry (12/13/2018): Tweeted my Atlantic story on the deportation of Vietnam War refugees
Democratic Party (12/13/2018): ICYMI: The Atlantic: Trump moves to deport Vietnam War refugees
Media Coverage
Real Clear Defense (5/28/2020): Another pearl in China's string?
Politico Europe (5/22/2020): POLITICO Brussels Playbook: Trump pulls out — Beach or mountain? — China spotlight
China Digital Times (4/29/2020): Beijing's aggressive COVID-19 diplomacy tarnishes its global credibility
The Week (British magazine) (4/25/2020): The corona wars (in print)
New Talk (Taiwanese outlet) (4/23/2020): 不幫忙只卸責 中國疫情大外宣 連開發中國家都不買單 (in Mandarin)
Real Clear World (12/13/2019): In Cambodia, 'rule of law' means Hun Sen rules
The Times of Israel (11/28/2019): Israeli envoy wishes Myanmar success in trial over alleged genocide
The Rumpus (9/4/2019): This week in essays
The 88 Project for Free Speech in Vietnam (9/2/2019): Vietnam Free Expression Newsletter No. 35/2019
Gay City News (7/17/2019): Mayor Normal
S. Megan Berthold & Kathryn R. Libal (book published in 6/2019): Refugees and asylum seekers
Emmy winner John Carlos Frey (book published in 6/2019): Sand and blood: America's stealth war on the Mexico border
The Jewish Journal (6/19/2019): Roundtable: Is the Buttigieg marriage radical or conservative?
Pulitzer Prize Winner Viet Thanh Nguyen (5/22/2019): Tweet about my story
NBC News (1/17/2019): Uncertainty over U.S.-Vietnam agreement leads to deportation concerns
The Washington Post (1/2/2019): Max Boot: Trump’s plan to deport Vietnamese betrays a sacred American principle
Literary Hub (12/24/2018): Bich Minh Nguyen on the refugee experience of holiday narratives
McClatchy (12/21/2018): Leading Republicans question Trump plan to deport Vietnamese refugees
NPR (12/18/2018): U.S. deports dozens more Cambodian immigrants, some for decades-old crimes
The New York Times (12/18/2018): California Today: untangling moves to deport Vietnamese immigrants
The New Yorker (12/17/2018): A Cambodian refugee with a decades-old conviction fights deportation
Mother Jones (12/14/2018): ICE could deport him to a country he’s never been to—unless California’s governor steps in
The Sacramento Bee (12/14/2018): Trump faces backlash from California Republicans over move to deport Vietnamese
The New York Times (12/13/2018): California Today: Life as a first-generation U.C. Irvine student
The Washington Post (12/13/2018): Power Up: Trump’s immigration clampdown continues
The Washington Post (12/13/2018): The Daily 202
Politico (12/13/2018): Vietnamese face deportation
Politico (12/13/2018): California playbook
GQ (12/13/2018): Mass deportation was never about "law and order"
Pod Save America (12/13/2018): "Owned in the Oval"
Esquire (12/12/2018): Charles Pierce: performative cruelty is all they have
The Hill (12/12/2018): Trump admin reinterprets 2008 agreement to allow deportation of Vietnam War refugees: report
Quartz (12/12/2018): Trump is preparing to deport thousands of previously welcomed Vietnamese refugees
Vox (12/12/2018): Trump is pushing Vietnam to accept deportees who have lived in the U.S. for over 20 years
The New York Times (12/3/2018): Viet Thanh Nguyen: Victims of war, and now victims of the Trump administration
New York Magazine (9/11/2018): Julia Salazar: state senate candidate is raising questions
Jewish Insider (8/27/2018): Amid controversy, N.Y. State Senate candidate aims to clarify her Jewish identity
Tablet (8/23/2018): Who is Julia Salazar?
Democracy Digest (8/16/2018): Engaging illiberal Hungary: ‘excessively transactional, insufficiently rhetorical’?
The Jewish Journal (8/13/2018): Racism and reverse racism: Where do Jews fit in?
Phil West (book published in 8/2018): I believe that we will win: the path to a U.S. men's World Cup victory