Politico quotes Long in article on President Trump’s popularity in Vietnam
Ngo Vinh Long, a professor of history at the University of Maine, was quoted in the Politico article, “Why Vietnam loves Trump.” According to the Pew Research Center, Vietnam is among seven out of 37 surveyed countries where a majority of the population says they like Donald Trump. A reported 58 percent of Vietnamese told Pew earlier this year that they have “confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs,” compared with the global median of 22 percent, the article states. “President Trump thinks he can stand up to China. That goes well with ordinary Vietnamese popular opinion,” said Long, who studies Vietnam and regional politics. “But this kind of attitude is scary to many people who are well educated or who are in the government because they think that, inadvertently, President Trump might provoke something with China that Vietnam itself cannot contain.”