Nguyen Khac Giang asks why Vietnam and China govern differently despite shared communist roots, and whether current centralisation is now converging the two regimes.
Why do Vietnam and China govern differently despite their shared communist institutions and market reforms? Drawing on his book project, Nguyen Khac Giang explores how divergent accountability arrangements shape taxation, redistribution and repression. Tracing these differences to the late 1980s, he asks what sustains them — and whether recent moves towards centralised leadership are bringing the two regimes closer together today.
Speaker
Nguyen Khac Giang is a Visiting Fellow in the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. He was previously Head of the Political Research Unit at the Hanoi-based Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR). His co-authored book, Civil Society in Vietnam: An Institutional Approach, received IRED Vietnam's Best Book in Economics Award in 2019. His academic work has appeared in Contemporary Southeast Asia, Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies, Asian Journal of Political Science, Constitutional Political Economy, and New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies, among others. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Victoria University of Wellington, and comments regularly on Vietnamese affairs for outlets including the Economist, the Financial Times and the New York Times.
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