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Wheels up Ottawa on the Canada government airplane. We will collect PM Carney from Montreal, before heading to Paris. Today is Mr. Carney’s 60th birthday. I’ll be posting updates from the trip on this #thread. We are hoping for facetime with him. #cdnpoli

I’m thrilled to start my new role as a Reporter-Researcher for The New York Times! I’ll be working closely with the Vietnam Bureau Chief, Global Affairs Correspondent Damien Cave and the incredible teams at the Times. Looking forward to your tips and suggestions!

NEW: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

Great Aussie school: the radar Canada bought from Aus was meant to go to the U.S. first. but Carney snagged the deal while WH dragged its feet Australia's 'biggest defence export' was meant to go to the US first, but Canada snuck past Donald Trump abc.net.au/news/2025-03-1…

The scheduling of a Musk meeting at the Pentagon is deemed classified information and leaks about it will be investigated. But the scheduling of a secret military strike is not classified and its disclosure on an unsecured text chat has prompted no announced investigation.

Zero sum thinking poisons the mind, limits the imagination, and leads one to the mistaken inference that if they lose we must win.

Trump on Putin, Feb. 16: “I think he wants to stop the fighting." Does Putin want all of Ukraine? "No, I think he wants to stop.” Putin on Ukraine, today: "There are reasons to believe that we will finish them off."

Trust is hard to build and easy to destroy -- it's a truism of risk studies and psychology. Now we're seeing it in how US allies are responding to Trump. Short-term, you get negotiations. Long-term, a less influential America. My analysis: nytimes.com/2025/03/31/wor…

They Found Love at a Construction Site, Then Were Trapped Beneath It nytimes.com/2025/03/31/wor…

I wrote this week about the role of Trumpian distrust in defense and trade; here’s a piece about the risk of broken trust in finance on.ft.com/445xYuB America cannot afford to break global investor trust

Re-upping this since it feels pretty relevant on tariff day nytimes.com/2025/03/01/wor…

Impressed the crack White House economic team not only found the Heard and McDonald Islands—an uninhabited Australian territory which is a two week sail from the mainland requiring a permit to visit—but that they managed to figure out the optimal retaliatory tariff to impose on

Interesting

"A case study in ideological censorship" nytimes.com/2025/04/11/us/…

Yuval Noah Harari on Trump’s fortress mentality and why we shouldn’t be surprised by his actions. A good baseline for understanding the current moment on.ft.com/4it5pLk

The US and Vietnam have spent decades working on reconciliation. With the 50th anniversary of the end of the war just a week away, the Trump administration wants its diplomats to talk less about how got here. Veterans are not happy. nytimes.com/2025/04/22/wor…

Thoughtful add to “the end of the West as we know it.” But maybe this is not a regional century; maybe it’s an idea or cross-regional century with a label we haven’t yet agreed on. With disruption, agency gets dispersed and reorganized. on.ft.com/441EqTw

There are and will be a lot of stories about the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Here's one (among a few) from me -- on what evolved in buildings still standing in Saigon that the Americans left. nytimes.com/2025/04/29/wor…

Giants of photojournalism who changed the way America saw Vietnam, war and their own country. A look back at the Vietnam War's powerful visual record and why photography then had so much power. nytimes.com/2025/04/29/wor…

What is Vietnam like today? Young, ambitious, eager for recognition -- and hoping that America and other nations will see this country as a source of far more than war and refugees, 50 years on. With Tung Ngo nytimes.com/2025/04/30/wor…