Vietnam: Leaked Communist Party document warns of 'hostile forces'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Vietnam hopes to become a developed, high-income country by 2045Some of the free trade deals Vietnam has agreed to, like the big one with the EU finalised in 2020, come with human and labour rights clauses attached to them.
51% : What has not changed is the iron grip the Communist Party keeps on power, and over all forms of political expression.
50% : In it, the party demands explicit limits on how independent trade unions can be, ordering officials to "strictly pilot the establishment of … employee organisations; take proactive initiatives when participating in the International Labour Organization's Convention that protects freedom of association and the right to organise, ensuring the ongoing leadership of the Party, leadership of party cells, and government management at all levels."
41% : These, Directive 24 argues, will "increase their sabotage and internal political transformation activities… forming 'civil society' alliances and networks, 'independent trade unions', creating the premise for the formation of domestic political opposition groups".

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