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Opinion: Vietnam's Democratic Future

Opinion: Vietnam's Democratic Future

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Dec 10, 2011
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“If men were angels, no government would be necessary,” wrote the American revolutionary patriots Alexander Hamilton and James Madison in the Federalist Papers. And right now, the Vietnamese government must make a choice of what kind of government it wants. No angels will bring it. Squeezed between China and the United States, Vietnam is mired in a stat…

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