Posted on 09/06/2012 9:28:29 AM PDT by Army Air Corps
Intra-party rivals may pull him down
Prime Minster Nguyen Tan Dung's grip on Vietnam's government is weakening. The Vietnamese premier is under attack by intra-party rivals who don't like his rich friends and fault his management of the economy. If Dung goes down, important changes in Vietnam's management of economic and social issues are likely to follow.
As a rule, Vietnam's Communist Party doesn't wash its dirty linen in public. Its spokesmen work hard to maintain the party's aura of competence and infallibility. Party members don't gossip with outsiders about party matters. Decisions made by the party's Politburo or its Central Committee are portrayed as unanimous.
Article 4 of Vietnam's constitution is very clear about the Communist Party's monopoly of political power: the CPV "is the force assuming leadership of the State and society." About one Vietnamese in 30 -- some 3 million altogether -- are members. There are party committees in every village and every city neighborhood.
The CPV renews its leadership at party congresses that cap months of alliance-mending and horse-trading. Typically this is not a winner-take-all event, but rather one that aims at updating the internal balance among factions and interests while retiring aging leaders bloodlessly.
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Viet Ping.
He isn't negotiating with the Kennedys, is he?
Maybe John Effin’ Kerry could go help out (he was in Viet Nam, ya know).
Doesn't dung always go down, if the John's not stopped up, that is.
Seems as if all the entrepreneurship in VN is tending to
the southern half, and the hard-arsed apparatchiki true believers are still mostly Northerners.
Seems as if all the entrepreneurship in VN is tending to
the southern half, and the hard-arsed apparatchiki true believers are still mostly Northerners.
It’s inevitable that Vietnam will have their own “Vietnamese Spring.”
and a ‘Spring Roll’ to go with it!
It’s beginning to look as if the Dung will hit the fan.
You hit the nail on the head.
Does that mean an increase or re-increase of government control over social and economic matters?
It has always been thus. In many ways the south/north dichotomy has mirrored our own. Southerners are socially more relaxed and the language differences are similar to ours. Northern speech is crisper and uses more consonants. Southerners slur their speech and omit consonants and some tones. Northerners are more puritanical all around same as northeasterners here. In matters of enterprise the dichotomy reverses the classic American differences. The southerners are more enterprising and open to business.
It has always been thus. In many ways the south/north dichotomy has mirrored our own. Southerners are socially more relaxed and the language differences are similar to ours. Northern speech is crisper and uses more consonants. Southerners slur their speech and omit consonants and some tones. Northerners are more puritanical all around same as northeasterners here. In matters of enterprise the dichotomy reverses the classic American differences. The southerners are more enterprising and open to business.
So would it be accurate to say that while the economy of Vietnam as a whole, both North and South, is a mixed economy, but the South is basically more capitalistic?
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