Vietnam: A Future Police State?
- September-October 2024 |
- Strategic Analysis
Volume:48
Issue: 5
Commentary
Introduction
The domestic political turmoil brewing for some time in Vietnam has captured the attention of observers around the world. The prevailing view in the ongoing power struggle is that the Party hardliners will emerge victorious. Considering the probable candidates likely to succeed the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), it is not difficult to understand why such observations are prevalent in popular discourse. When To Lam, the former Minister of Public Security, assumed the position of the new President of Vietnam, both To Lam and the current Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh were considered eligible to become the future head of the Party’s Secretariat, Politburo, and Central Military Commission.
