Dien Luong is a visiting fellow with the media, technology and society program of the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and a doctoral student in communications and media at the University of Michigan.
In April 2015, in a national speech marking 40 years since the end of the Vietnam War, Nguyen Tan Dung, the pro-West prime minister at the time, did not mince words when he recalled the "countless barbarous crimes" committed by the U.S. during the conflict.



