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 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 ...
Cfr.org

What Nguyen Phu Trong’s Death Means for Vietnam

The Communist Party announced the death of Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong—the top leader in Vietnam’s political system—at eighty years old this morning. Until recently, the role of party general secretary ...
CNN

Vietnam Communist Party chief hands power to president as he undergoes medical care

Vietnam’s President To Lam has taken over the duties of Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong who is focusing on an unspecified treatment for his health, the party said on Thursday. The extraordinary ...
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 ...