Vietnam Appoints Military Officer as Propaganda Chief
Nguyen Trong Nghia previously oversaw the creation of a 10,000-strong army cyber unit to combat anti-government sentiment online.
February 22, 2021
Lt. Gen. Phan Van Giang, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, meets Adm. Harry Harris Jr., commander of what was then known as the U.S. Pacific Command, at Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense, October 26, 2016.
Credit: Flickr/U.S. Indo-Pacific Command
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Vietnam has named a senior military officer to head the country’s powerful propaganda department, according to reports in Vietnamese state media, a development that augurs ill for the country’s beleaguered and ever-shrinking circles of dissidents and pro-democracy activists.