Vietnam’s General Secretary Trong Maneuvers to Stay on Top

With 13th party congress underway, Trong seeks to neutralize successors

By: David Brown

By all indications, Nguyen Phu Trong (above, left, with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc) is sure that what's good for the Communist Party is good for Vietnam. That explains why, instead of going gracefully into retirement, the now wobbly, still wily 77-year-old has connived to get himself a third term as the party's general secretary.

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