Why Trong’s re-election doesn’t spell the end for reform in Vietnam (Alexander L. Vuving, APCSS, East Asia Forum)

In late January 2016, the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) held its 12th National Congress to select leaders and set policy guidelines for the next five years. Although every VCP congress is a time of intense power struggles, the 12th Congress was especially partisan. Never before has politics in Vietnam been so reduced to the choice between two individuals.

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Alexander L. Vuving is a Professor at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu. The views expressed in this article are his own and do not represent those of the US Government, the US Department of Defense or APCSS.