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The US-China trade war has spurred demand for Vietnamese companies that produce chip components like wafers, as Vietnam scales up its semiconductor ambitions (Lam Le/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/vietnam-chip-industry-us-china-trade-war/

The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam’s chip industry
Vietnamese chip component suppliers are responding to growing market demands for products with no Chinese link. 

Refugees, intergenerational trauma, child death, abusive family
Also just finished "The Best We Could Do" by Thi Bui, which is the second memoir I've stumbled upon recently that deals with the Vietnamese exodus after the end of the war (House Without Walls by Ching Yeung Russel is the other one, which is written in verse, not illustrated). Bui traces more of the political landscape and history of Vietnam through the stories of both of her parents, and also unpacks a lot of intergenerational trauma, but has less focus on the boat trip out and refugee camp experience, presumably because hers were easier than Russel's.
My thoughts after reading this return repeatedly to all of the impacts that patriarchy and toxic masculinity had on her father, from setting up his father and grandfather to be abusive towards him and the women in their lives, to pushing him deep into depression when he feels unable to fulfill the role of a protective husband, ironically leaving his wife to pick up the slack and ultimately ruining their relationship, to how it teaches him to despise and shirk the caregiver role he's left with, ultimately passing on some measure of trauma to his children. For sure war, abusive family, and child death can happen in the absence of patriarchy and those are in some ways perhaps bigger factors here, but at the same time, Bui's mom copes with most of the same factors in healthier ways.
#AmReading

Finally finished #Andor and I say it without a doubt: it is the most important (perhaps the best) Star Wars content since the original trilogy. I'm so happy that I got to see it but at the same time it's a shame that (probably) nothing like this would be made ever again.
Some more deep thoughts here:

A ★★★★★ review of Andor: A Disney+ Day Special Look (2022)
There is no other way to put this: Andor is the most important and most significant Star Wars content ever since the original trilogy. Perhaps even better. At it's core, the original Star Wars trilogy it's about the fight against an authoritarian regime. Certainly influenced by the impact of the Vietnam War and WWII. Although presented in a way that it's suitable for all audiences. Andor takes this premise and takes it to the extreme, to the brutality of war and rebellion, and to the hope and h…

Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said
he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan
after the Trump administration resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries.
Men from Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were removed from the US and flown to the war-torn country

50 years of reunification, the end of the second Indochina war, #Vietnam had a blast with a mammoth celebration. The nationalism is troubled but it goes strong. An entire day of a parade in Saigon and on TV, and we had a tank in the newspaper 🤷
Interesting, since it’s the final days abroad for us

Sandy Gall, an ITN presenter for 20 years and war correspondent who covered Vietnam, Uganda, Kenya, Afghanistan, and more, has died at age 97 (Adam Nossiter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/business/media/sandy-gall-dead.html

Sandy Gall, War Correspondent Without Swagger, Dies at 97
For nearly 50 years, he was ubiquitous on British television — first as a reporter and then as an imperturbable presenter on Independent Television’s “News at Ten.”

This year, there appear to be even more fireworks on my street. Which seems weird given both the tariffs and the fact these are a Chinese invention which are made in China, and the folks setting them off around here are very much ‘America first’.
Because the folks setting them off don’t seem to care about their neighbors nor neighbors’ dogs.

Toller Artikel im Guardian, der aufzeigt, wie sich das rechte, intelligente Milieu - meistens Richter - gegen den Volltrottel Trump wendet, der meint, das er der König von Amerika sei:
Trump’s tariffs have become his Vietnam – and the right is breaking ranks | Sidney Blumenthal | The Guardian
https://ww…

My dad served in the Vietnam war and when he passed away we received this flag which put out every 4th of July
#photo #photography #usa

Hmong are victims of discrimination in Laos to the point that they have to hide their ethnic identity. Hmong people are in Minnesota because they helped the USA in the Vietnam War. They are valuable and contributing members of the community.
https://www.startribune.com/…

It’s been 55 years since the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students at Kent State University
who were protesting the US war in Vietnam.
Four students were murdered at the Kent State Massacre:
Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Lee Scheuer, and William Schroeder.
In this episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with Mike Alewitz,
who was a student at Kent State in 1970,
about what it was like to witness the massacre firsthand,
and abou…

‘There were massive revolts’: The history of the 1970 Kent State massacre you haven’t heard
“The whole history of the massacre was suppressed… And then they suppressed the whole history of the anti-war movement at Kent. They've tried to erase the history.”