22/03/2023
50 years of the Paris Peace Accords: Vietnam is another country.- Javier Fernández Aparicio
This 2023 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords that marked the end of the Vietnam War and the departure of US troops. Vietnam is a very different state than it was then, even though the all-powerful Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), created by Ho Chi Minh in 1930, continues to rule. To a hastily liberalized economy, which has made this Southeast Asian state a center attraction for multinational companies, has been followed by an increase in precariousness indices and a perception of widespread corruption. Precisely, due to some corruption scandals, in January the then president Xuan Phuc resigned, replaced by a younger Van Thuon. The latter has the support of the true leader of Vietnam: the general secretary of the PCV, Phu Trong, in office since 2011. On the country’s horizon, Trong’s succession and its complicated geopolitical situation, given the conflict in the current Indo-Pacific, where Vietnam oscillates between friction and dependence on China and the commercial or security rapprochement with the United States, its former enemy.
Document prepared by Javier Fernandez Aparicio. IEEE Analyst. @jafeap