Vietnam in 2018: Consolidating Market Leninism

In: Asian survey, Band 59, Heft 1, S. 140-146

Abstract

In 2018 Vietnam saw intensifying party discipline and state repression, rapid economic growth, spasms of dissent, and new questions about the direction of the country's social and political development. Amid deepening but perpetually fragile relations with Beijing, Hanoi furthered its strategic ties with the US, Japan, India, and other powers.