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...Carlyle Thayer, emeritus professor of politics at the University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, said that Trong “failed to get his protégé Tran Quoc Vuong approved as...
...Among the leading candidates rumoured to be in the running to replace Mr Trong is Tran Quoc Vuong, the current general secretary’s right-hand man and a leader of the anti-corruption campaign....
...Mr Trong became general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 2011, and was elected president by the country’s rubber-stamp parliament in October after the sudden death of Tran Dai Quang....
...The country has benefited from new investment, but also come under critical US scrutiny because of exporters who trans-ship goods from China and label them as “Made in Vietnam” to avoid tariffs....
...The job became vacant last month after Tran Dai Quang, 61, died following a serious illness. Mr Trong was unanimously nominated earlier this month for the position by the party’s Central Committee....
...Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang has died at age 61, state-controlled media in the communist-ruled country said on Friday....
...Political certainty was strengthened by the smooth transition to the state presidency by secretary-general Nguyen Phu Trong after the death of Tran Dai Quang, whose whereabouts and health status had been...
...Beijing wants to cast itself as a defender of global free trade for political reasons, they say, after the US quit another huge deal, the Trans-Pacific Partnership....
...Australia has called for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to go ahead without the US after president Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 12-country free-trade deal forced Asian capitals to rethink a decade of...
...Tran Dai Quang, Vietnam’s president, said the US decision was “clear proof that both countries have completely normalised relations”....
...The congress re-elected Nguyen Phu Trong, existing party secretary, for another five-year term, all but sealing Mr Dung’s retirement from active politics....
...Fact: Nguyen Phu Trong, Communist party general secretary, visited the White House in July and described the US “as one of the most important partners in our foreign policy”....
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