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