206 - Southeast Asia amid US-China Rivalry | Trinh Nguyen | Velina Tchakarova | Bharatvaarta

Trinh Nguyen is a nonresident scholar in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is a senior economist covering emerging Asia at Natixis, based in Hong Kong. Nguyen joined Natixis in October 2015. She previously worked at HSBC as an ASEAN economist from 2011 to 2015.

Nguyen has been awarded best economist on Vietnam by Asia Money. She was a top-ranked regional economist, also by Asia Money. Nguyen’s analysis serves fixed income, equity, and FX markets.

In this episode Trinh and Velina spoke about Asia's Development, Steps US and China are taking to win over the ASEAN countries, the competition between Southeast asian countries in infrastructure investments and more!

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00:00 Sneak Peak
01:10 Introduction
02:01 Trinh's perspective on Asia's Development and future development 
10:23 US/China's steps to win over ASEAN / China post Zero covid
28:05 Competition in Infrastructure Investment  
49:40 Green Transition policies - Conflicts in decarbonization goals