Viet President Ousted Amid Covid Scandal
Nguyễn Xuân Phúc joins allies Phạm Bình Minh and Vũ Đức Đam in obscurity
By: David Brown
However flimsy the evidence linking Vietnam President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc to corrupt Covid-19-related schemes orchestrated by Vietnamese government officials, it provided his enemies a convenient explanation for his allegedly voluntary January 17 resignation.
In the communique issued after an extraordinary session of the Vietnamese Communist …
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