Vietnam's One-Man Rule arrives.

[Carl Robinson]

I’ve written a short Substack piece on the leadership changes in Hanoi. Tô Lâm has taken the presidency, and Lê Minh Hưng — at 55, still young by the system’s standards — has been installed as prime minister. The shift completes Vietnam’s move toward a single centre of gravity and adopts Beijing’s “core leader” framing more explicitly.

If useful, the full story is here.

https://carlrobinson.substack.com/p/vietnams-one-man-rule-arrives

Carl 

[Arnold Isaacs]

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3:12 PM (1 minute ago)


to me


Perhaps some on this list who were around for the war's final months
will remember Bob Tamarkin, last Saigon correspondent for the Chicago
Daily News. For your possible interest, his stepdaughter Elisa has
published Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon. Here's the
entry on the University of Chicago Press catalog:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo264815504.html

Elisa, then 4 years old, and her mother Civia Tamarkin joined Bob in
Saigon in late March 75, left after just a few weeks. Bob covered the
final weeks and days and left on the last helicopter out of the
embassy hours before Saigon fell. Elisa is now a professor of English
at UCBerkeley.

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