The Washington Post

Nguyen Phu Trong, who led Vietnam’s outreach and crackdowns, dies at 80

Nguyen Phu Trong, a longtime ideologue in Vietnam’s Communist Party who rose to power in 2011 and later cemented control in the one-party state with purges against corruption, and political crackdowns ...
The Diplomat

Remembering Nguyen Phu Trong’s Foreign Policy Legacies

Nguyen Phu Trong, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), addresses the media during a press briefing after a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden at the headquarters of the ...
The Conversation

In ‘bamboo diplomacy,’ late Vietnam leader Nguyen Phu Trong left a path for smaller nations to navigate great-power rivalries

Jorge Heine is a member of the Party for Democracy, a Chilean political party, and of the Foro Permanente de Politica Exterior, a Chilean think tank. As a rule, the U.S. secretary of state does not ...
The New York Times

Nguyen Phu Trong, Powerful Vietnamese Leader, Is Dead at 80

Known for his “blazing furnace” anticorruption campaign, Mr. Trong consolidated power in one of the world’s few remaining Communist dictatorships. By Sui-Lee Wee Nguyen Phu Trong, the hard-line ...
The Diplomat

The Final Victory of Nguyen Phu Trong

This article is the second in a two-part series. Part 1 is available here. When Nguyen Phu Trong assumed Vietnam’s presidency following the death of President Tran Dai Quang in September 2018, he ...