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Vietnam’s Trong Cleans Out the Party

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Apr 30, 2018
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Vietnam’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong looks like a genial grandpa but he's tough as nails. He is sure things were better many years ago, when Vietnam was still poor but the ruling Communist Party was still pure. He is a theoretician, a true believer who two-plus years ago prevailed in an epic power struggle. Now he aims to cleanse the party of ba…

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