During this period he also acted as president from 2018 to 2021.He saw the need to open up Vietnam’s economy - under his watch, the country’s GDP per capita more than doubled and Vietnam inked a serie...
So he saw the fate of the Vietnamese Communist party and the nation as bound together,” said Giang Nguyen, a visiting senior fellow with the ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and former BBC Vie...
It’s also been seen as contributing to instability within the Communist Party, where so many top officials have been purged - due to corruption or infighting - that very few are left as possible succe...
His death, and the question of succession that it poses, puts Vietnam in uncharted waters. For many Vietnamese, “we share the feeling of anxiety of the unknown”, said Mr Nguyen.“It is the end of an er...