Hanh Nguyen & James Borton

Hanh Nguyen is a Young Leaders program member of the Pacific Forum. She received her M.A. in International Relations at International Christian University, Tokyo. Her research interests include Southeast Asia politics and security, and Vietnam’s foreign policy. She has written for the Pacific Forum, The Diplomat, 9DashLine, Geopolitical Monitor and the East Asia Security Centre. James Borton is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at Yale University. He is a freelance global journalist who writes for Asia Times, Asia Literary Review, Foreign Policy and The Washington Times. He recently edited Islands and Rocks in the South China Sea: Post Hague Ruling. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington and a regular contributor to Geopolitical Monitor. James is now at work on a new book, Dispatches from the South China Sea.