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Is Vietnam’s Hard-Line Leader’s Death the End of an Era?
Vietnamese politicians rarely, if ever, express emotion during their heavily scripted public speeches. Yet Nguyen Phu Trong, the hard-line general secretary of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) who passed away last week, deviated from this stoic …