Executive Overview For millions of football fans across Southeast Asia, the digital coordinates for a free Premier League match with enthusiastic, localized commentary were long an open secret. Anchored by the infamous "Xoi Lac TV" and its sprawling ecosystem of sister sites, the operation grew from a clandestine web streaming experiment into a massively profitable,…
Executive Overview Vietnam is currently locked in a high-stakes intellectual property battle with the United States, utilizing a combination of strategic law enforcement actions and a massive diplomatic defense to stave off impending Section 301 trade sanctions. Earlier this year, the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) categorized Vietnam as a "Priority Foreign…
Executive Overview Vietnam is facing a critical juncture in its international trade and intellectual property enforcement policies. Following a designation by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) as a "Priority Foreign Country"—a rare classification not deployed against a sovereign state in over a decade—the Southeast Asian nation finds itself at the center…
