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Asia Sentinel False hope of help from Trump Jan 21 By: David Brown By almost any measure, 2020 was a calamitous year for Vietnam s democracy movement. Already reduced by the Hanoi regime s increasingly efficient repression, now it was transfixed by Donald Trump s battle for a second term. Trump, it was said, would defend Vietnam against China. Oddly but somehow understandably, a majority of those who doubt the nation s single-party dictatorship came to view the American president as their hope for a brighter future. Disillusionment with Vietnam s current regime, even despair, is understandable. Controls on what may be said don t sit all that well on a nation that s been opening to the global economy and sending its brightest abroad to study for a quarter century. Vietnam s democracy movement is, or at least it was, a loosely-organized network of citizens who have not hesitated to call out the regime. The movement was empowered by the Internet, which for rough ....
Vietnam sentences 3 independent journalists to more than 10 years in prison 3 minute read Journalists Pham Chi Dung (R), Nguyen Tuong Thuy (L) and Le Huu Minh Tuan (3rd L) during their trial in Ho Chi Minh city, 5 January 2021. Photo taken and released by the Vietnam News Agency. STR/Vietnam News Agency/AFP via Getty Images Vietnamese journalists Pham Chi Dung, Nguyen Tuong Thuy, and Le Huu Minh Tuan were convicted and received long prison sentences for the charge of publishing “distorted information about the people’s government.” The three are members of the Independent Journalists Association of Vietnam, which advocates for press freedom. ....