In a commentary, RSIS Senior Fellow Yang Razali Kassim wrote about how the Communist Party of Vietnam, the country’s backbone, is currently huddled in a crucial national congress in Hanoi. By the time it ends on Tuesday, it would have decided on a new leadership core and set the roadmap for a new vision towards a “developed economy with socialist orientation” by 2045.

…Yang Razali Kassim is Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. This RSIS Commentary is being republished in Bnews, a newspaper of the Vietnam News Agency.