By Mehmet Enes Beşer Vietnam is entering its next chapter with a soundtrack the world already recognizes: exports rising, industrial parks spreading, ports and highways improving, investors lining up to treat the country as a “China+1” anchor. The machine still runs. The question is whether it can upgrade. Because the next stage of Vietnamese growth won’t be won by adding ...
By Mehmet Enes Beşer The Mekong River is once again discovering that growth and stability are not the same. It is possible for there to be factories running at full capacity, new highways being built, and new investors arriving, while simultaneously the ground beneath politics and public trust is quietly shifting. This is why 2025 felt so paradoxical: increased cooperation ...