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Nguyen Phu Trong obituary
Nguyen Phu Trong, who has died aged 80, was the general secretary of the ruling Communist party of Vietnam for the past decade, and he succeeded in bringing three US presidents to the country. He oversaw unprecedented economic growth, yet endeavoured to …