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Vietnam unanimously elected Communist Party General Secretary To Lam as president for a five-year term, consolidating his control over both the party and the state.

The move departs from Vietnam’s tradition of shared leadership, in which the jobs have typically been held by different people, and echoes power structures in China under Xi Jinping and neighboring Laos.

It has been widely expected since Lam’s reelection as Communist Party head in January, when observers noted that his consolidation of party authority positioned him to assume the presidency as well.

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[–] marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

A) No, No one has ever stated the number of arrests or executions are a state secret. It's public information. There are actually few things that are 'state secrets' (which isn't a term used by the CPC or NPC); convictions which are public information are not one of them. For obvious reasons. I don't know where you even got confused here, because as far as I know even the most deranged RFA posts only suggest secret arrests as 'off books' arrests which are left off of the public record that all chinese citizens have access to. Like you are outdoing the CIA outlet in your delusional claims here little buddy.

B) The National Endowment of Democracy, an NGO formed by 'former' CIA collaborators, funded by an act of congress after a hearing with the then CIA director, and who has largely taken all public roles from the CIA since the Reagan administration (especially after Iran-Contra spoiled the CIA internationally) is an NGO that primarily funds pro israeli, pro US, anti communist, anti US enemy propaganda (in that order) internationally and domestically, allowing CIA operations to happen on US soil even before neutrality rules and domestic intelligence restrictions were officially removed in the 1990s and 2010s respectively.

Asking for a source that is not literally US state propaganda in order to verify your claims seems like it would be fair game. You choose to distrust Chinese state propaganda, but for some reason have fully based your entire identity on US state propaganda; even if it is so hilariously, obviously false.