Foreign Policy Blogs

Tag Archives: currency collapse

Red Shirts Evolve and Dong Still Under Pressure

Thailand:  This blog has followed the “Shinawatra Saga” in Thailand for awhile.  Thitinan Pongsudhirak has an interesting editorial on the issues at OpinionAsia.  Mr. Pongsudhirak contends that the core issue is not Shinawatra, but democracy and social justice.  For this reason, he believes the Red Shirts (a.k.a. The United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, UDD) […]

read more

Vietnese, Laos, and Indonesia in the news

Vietnese, Laos, and Indonesia in the news

Asia Times Online has several great articles out this week on Southeast Asia: – Vietnam could be facing another currency crisis.  The  Vietnamese Dong may crash due to the governments unsustainable trade and spending deficits.   Apparently, things got out of hand as early as late 2007, when Vietnam started printing Dong based off of the […]

read more

About Us

Foreign Policy Blogs is a network of global affairs blogs and a supplement to the Foreign Policy Association’s Great Decisions program. Staffed by professional contributors from the worlds of journalism, academia, business, non-profits and think tanks, the FPB network tracks global developments on Great Decisions 2014 topics, daily. The FPB network is a production of the Foreign Policy Association.