Today’s guest is Daniël Stork, the outgoing Consul General of the Netherlands in Ho Chi Minh City.

We discussed the tight economic relationship between Vietnam and the Netherlands, the EU’s largest foreign investor here; the shared water-related challenges the countries face thanks to their river deltas; major takeaways from his four years in the country; reflections on the art and LGBTQ communities; and more.

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