NIKKEI ASIA

APLN member Huong Le Thu was quoted in Nikkei Asia, where she commented on the recent passing of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

In 2015, Trong became the only VCP general-secretary ever to visit the White House. The U.S. is Vietnam’s biggest customer, viewing the country as a vital partner in computer chips and other products, and for managing conflict in the South China Sea.

“Trong’s legacy will be consolidating power” for the party “through the dedicated anti-corruption campaign,” Huong Le Thu, Asia deputy director at International Crisis Group, told Nikkei Asia. She said all the arrests and firings fueled uncertainty, but, said Thu, “I guess the biggest setback on his record would be the incomplete succession plan.”

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