David Brown

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David Brown, a retired American diplomat, is now a frequent writer on contemporary Vietnam and its neighborhood.

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Analysis: Elite power struggle sees Vietnam abandon coal, but leaves collateral damage

David Brown 15 Mar 2022

Analysis: Years in the making, Vietnam’s Mekong Delta policy takes the long view

David Brown 30 Dec 2020

Analysis: How Vietnam came to embrace a new vision of the Mekong Delta’s future

David Brown 24 Dec 2020

Analysis: Vietnam’s leadership flex shows how to drive electricity reform

David Brown 6 Aug 2020

Analysis: Floating solar power along the dammed-up Mekong River

David Brown 3 Dec 2019
An underwater view of the reef at Layang Layang Atoll in the Spratly Islands, South China Sea. Photo courtesy of Greg Asner / Divephoto.org.

Experts to China: cooperate or South China Sea fisheries may collapse

David Brown 21 Dec 2017

Vietnam makes a big push for coal, while pledging to curb emissions

David Brown 26 May 2017

A plan to save the Mekong Delta

David Brown 18 Oct 2016

Mother Nature and a hydropower onslaught aren’t the Mekong Delta’s only problems

David Brown 13 Oct 2016

Vietnam sweats bullets as China and Laos dam the Mekong

David Brown 6 Oct 2016

Will climate change sink the Mekong Delta?

David Brown 3 Oct 2016

South China Sea ruling slams China for poaching, reef destruction

David Brown 14 Jul 2016
A massive fish die-off. Image via EPA.

Taiwanese chemical spill thought to cause mass fish die-off in Vietnam

David Brown 3 May 2016

Overcoming poverty through ‘regreening’

David Brown 12 Aug 2015

Endangered parakeet finds new hope in reserve expansion

David Brown 14 Jul 2015

Lost and found, then lost again? Recently rediscovered hummingbird faces extinction

David Brown 30 Apr 2015

Destroyed habitat, fewer resources, Ebola: the many repercussions of Liberia’s deforestation

David Brown 29 Oct 2014

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