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Opinion: Vietnam's Difficult Road to Reform

Opinion: Vietnam's Difficult Road to Reform

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Oct 27, 2012
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Reform, or what passes for reform in Vietnam, is not implausible. Democracy and individual rights are not foreign concepts to the Vietnamese. The arrest and detention of pro-democratic and human rights activists prove as much. The public outrage against the government’s economic mismanagement and corruption proves as much.

More often than not, reform is …

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