Vietnam – California Globe

Congressional Candidate Turns Her Back on the American Flag

May 24, 2026 9:51 amMay 24, 2026 10:22 am

Mai Vang is a Sacramento City Councilwoman, and a California congressional candidate for California’s 7th Congressional District. Mai Vang also refuses to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and turns her back on the U.S. flag during public meetings. Don’t be...

The Vietnam Mirage: Why Claims of a U.S. Quagmire in Iran Are Fundamentally Misguided

March 21, 2026 4:48 pmMarch 21, 2026 4:48 pm

In the weeks since the joint U.S./Israeli military campaign against Iran began, a familiar chorus has risen from left-wing cable-news panels and op-ed pages. Commentators warn that America has been “dragged into another Vietnam”, a grinding, open-ended conflict that will...

Jane Fonda’s Climate Agenda Left California Dirtier and More Expensive

February 2, 2026 3:30 amFebruary 2, 2026 3:31 am

Jane Fonda and her climate activists demanded that oil production be shut down, and Sacramento complied. The result has not been progress but a masterclass in ideological overreach and self-inflicted environmental damage. Californians now pay the highest gas prices in...

U.S. Energy Shift Offers Economic Hope to Global South

October 17, 2025 7:38 amOctober 17, 2025 7:38 am

For decades growth strategies in poorer countries of the Global South – Asia, Africa and South America – leaned heavily on energy-intensive industries powered by fossil fuels and, in a handful of cases, by nuclear power. Cities grew, factories rose,...

Hanoi’s ‘Green’ Path to Poverty and Blackouts

September 2, 2025 2:33 pmSeptember 2, 2025 2:33 pm

Vietnam’s decision to prohibit gasoline-powered motorcycles in central Hanoi beginning July 1, 2026, is a textbook example of climate dogma disrupting developing economies with potentially devastating consequences. The policy will take effect in Hanoi’s downtown districts, then expand to outer...

Vietnam’s Bustling Economy Requires Fossil Fuels

December 2, 2024 4:07 pmDecember 2, 2024 4:07 pm

From my residential perch overlooking Ho Chi Minh City, I embrace the tranquillity of daybreak. Quickly, the idyllic morning transforms into a pulsing canvas of vitality as middle-class ambitions surge through the arteries of this burgeoning metropolis – Vietnam’s largest...

Vietnamese People Admire Capitalist Economic Systems

February 26, 2024 10:34 amFebruary 26, 2024 11:25 am

Vietnam officially calls itself “socialist,” but ever since the Doi Moi reforms at the end of the 1980s the country has been steadily moving toward a market economy. Vietnam has opened up to the outside world more than China, it...