The Communist Vietnam: Internal contradictions and the path to progress

... independence in 2015. The Communist Party of Vietnam has held power throughout all of those decades. What are the Communist Party's positions right now? How is the Party adapting to the changing international environment, and will it be able to implement reforms the country and the Party itself need? We posed these and other questions to Carlyle Thayer, Emeritus Professor at the University of New South Wales (Australia). How would you assess the state of the CPV on the eve of the country’s 70th ...