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Articles by Pham Phan Long
AI and the Red Lines of a Planet under Stress
By: Pham Phan Long The controversy over how dangerous artificial intelligence may be – and how soon the danger might arrive – is fascinating, not simply because experts reach very different conclusions, but because they sometimes do not seem to be talking about the same kind of threat. Geoffrey Hinton, one of the pioneers of modern AI, told CNN recently how he views this disagreement.
Unequal Relationship: Lancang-Mekong Cooperation
By: Pham Phan Long On paper, the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) mechanism is a success. Since its launch in 2016, trade between China and Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam has risen sharply, reaching a record $500.9 billion in 2025 – 150 percent above the level a decade earlier.
Southeast Asia’s Fragmented Environmental Governance
By: Pham Phan Long The Mekong River upstream from Luang Prabang, Laos. In a recent article, I argued that humanity has built institutions capable of accelerating development on a global scale, but has not established adequate institutions to govern the environmental consequences of development. This article takes that argument further by zo… Keep reading with a 7-day free trial Subscribe to Asia Sentinel to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.
The Planet Under Threat
By: Pham Phan Long Humanity has entered the Anthropocene, an era in which human activity shapes Earth’s climate, ecosystems, rivers, and natural processes at planetary scale. Yet many institutions guiding development were built around a narrower vision of environmental impacts, focusing on individual projects while cumulative ecological consequences can extend over time and across ecosystems, regions, and national borders.
Laos can do more to mitigate chemical pollution of rivers flowing into Vietnam (analysis)
Rapid expansion of rare earth and gold mining in Laos is contaminating river systems that flow into Vietnam, putting millions of downstream users at risk. Toxic runoff, particularly arsenic, poses a “silent” threat as it bioaccumulates over time, with serious long-term impacts on human health, fisheries and food security.
A nature-based solution to save the Mekong Delta’s water future (commentary)
The Mekong Delta — a global rice and aquaculture hub — is increasingly at risk from climate change, with rising seas, salinity intrusion, pollution and groundwater depletion threatening the livelihoods of deoendant communities and lives of millions of residents in the delta. A proposed nature-based groundwater replenishment system in Vietnam would combine water treatment, aquifer recharge and wind energy to boost clean water supply, reduce salinity and stabilize the delta’s fragile ecosystems.
Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal project: A catalog of worries (analysis)
Cambodia plans to build a 180-km (110-mi) canal from its capital to its coast on the Gulf of Thailand, a $1.7 billion project aimed at reducing its dependence on moving cargo through ports in neighboring Vietnam. But this analysis concludes that the plan is financially unfeasible, would have severe environmental impacts, and would exacerbate water scarcity in a region already suffering from critically low levels in the Mekong.
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