

Normally the general secretary of the communist party, the president of the state, and the prime minister of the national assembly are different people. To Lam has been general secretary for a while, while others were president and PM. It gives a separation of state and party. Now, To Lam is General Secretary AND president, the first time those two posts have been held by the same person.
It’s not that bad of a development, the Communist party of Vietnam is nothing like the totalitarian CCP. The Vietnamese still fuck people off when they are corrupt or inept. To Lam has beef doing a pretty good job of keeping Vietnam stable, peaceful, and developing at a sustainable pace. There’s still lots of poverty, inequality and inflation, but it takes time to recover from decades of war with various other countries and keep up with modernization. It’s a nice, peaceful country.













Uh mine gets kicked accidentally at least once a day despite me trying to be careful. She is orange, though. She gets so excited for food that shin-headbutts slow down the food-getting process by 3/4ths.