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‘Calamitous Year’ For Vietnamese Democracy

False hope of help from Trump

Jan 21, 2021
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By: David Brown

By almost any measure, 2020 was a calamitous year for Vietnam's democracy movement. Already reduced by the Hanoi regime's increasingly efficient repression, now it was transfixed by Donald Trump's battle for a second term. Trump, it was said, would defend Vietnam against China. Oddly but somehow understandably, a majority of those who dou…

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