Vietnam unanimously elected Communist Party General Secretary To Lam as president for a five-year term, consolidating his control over both the party and the state.

The move departs from Vietnam’s tradition of shared leadership, in which the jobs have typically been held by different people, and echoes power structures in China under Xi Jinping and neighboring Laos.

It has been widely expected since Lam’s reelection as Communist Party head in January, when observers noted that his consolidation of party authority positioned him to assume the presidency as well.

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    Logic doesn’t need non-NES sources.

    You might as well be complaining my sources weren’t MAGA enough for you. Logic is immutable, that’s why my entire argument is constructed through comparison to MAGA.

    You can’t say MAGA is bad without agreeing China is bad for the same reasons. You also can’t say China is good without agreeing MAGA is good for the same reasons.

    That makes my comparison impossible to attack as untrue and why you are running from it as needing sources. I don’t need sources to see a square peg fits a square hole. I can just point out both are square shaped, which I have.

    Same with “repeating things that have been disproven by basically by every Chinese person.”

    That’s an assumption you’re making. You might as well be saying “repeating things that have been disproven by basically every MAGA.”

    They have disproven nothing. They just say they have. Same as you. You are confusing opinions as facts, as long as they come from a Chinese source. Same as MAGA confusing Trumps opinions for facts if they come from a MAGA source.

    Here’s China banning a Winnie the Pooh movie from releasing there:

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/07/china-bans-winnie-the-pooh-film-to-stop-comparisons-to-president-xi

    Who’s afraid of Winnie the Pooh? The Chinese government, apparently. Chinese censors have banned the release of Christopher Robin, a new film adaptation of AA Milne’s beloved story about Winnie the Pooh,

    Here’s an explanation for why they banned it that will likely get you arrested for reading:

    https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855

    The blocking of Winnie the Pooh might seem like a bizarre move by the Chinese authorities but it is part of a struggle to restrict clever bloggers from getting around their country’s censorship.

    It is not only that China’s censors will not tolerate ridicule of the country’s leader, they do not want this beloved children’s character becoming a kind of online euphemism for the Communist Party’s general secretary.

    Bloggers started to refer to being censored as having been “harmonised” - bei hexie le 被和谐了 - but, by changing the tones in Chinese or changing the characters, you can fudge the meaning. So another hexie is river crab 河蟹。In other words, when you see an image of a river crab on the internet in China, it is likely to be a reference to something having been censored.

    Another Chinese leader Jiang Zemin came up with a political theory called Three Represents, san ge daibiao 三个代表。If you switch that around a bit it becomes dai san ge biao 带三个表, or wear three watches. So the wearing of three watches became a cheeky way of referring to his contribution to China’s socialism “with Chinese characteristics”.

    It is not necessarily easy to get around China’s censors though. For example they have been extremely successful at virtually wiping out the existence of the country’s number one dissident Liu Xiaobo - the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize who died in custody here last week - at least as far as the general public goes.

    Most Chinese citizens have simply never heard of him.

    On that note, by all means research the above on your own internet from non-NES sources, and see what you find. I’m sure your results will be completley unbiased as only the “BEST” results have been pre-chosen as available for you to read.

    Go look up Liu Xiaobo and then explain how your result is the “BEST” at describing his work and who he is.

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      also why are you bringing up the noted cia agent?

      To be clear, this isn’t even a controversial take btw. No human being, much less someone educated holds these beliefs:

      On the Islamic World

      Liu broadly supported U.S. militarism.[38]: 77  He supported U.S. President George W. Bush’s 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, his 2003 invasion of Iraq and subsequent reelection.[47][48][49][50] Liu supported other U.S. interventions in the Middle East as well,[38]: 77  alongside the Vietnam and Korean War.[49]

      In his 2004 article titled “Victory to the Anglo-American Freedom Alliance”, he praised the U.S.-led post-Cold War conflicts as “best examples of how war should be conducted in a modern civilization.” He wrote:

      "Regardless of the savagery of the terrorists, and regardless of the instability of Iraq's situation, and, what's more, regardless of how patriotic youth might despise proponents of the United States such as myself, my support for the invasion of Iraq will not waver. Just as, from the beginning, I believed that the military intervention of Britain and the United States would be victorious, I am still full of belief in the final victory of the Freedom Alliance and the democratic future of Iraq, and even if the armed forces of Britain and the United States should encounter some obstacles such as those that they are currently facing, this belief of mine will not change."[51]
      

      He also wrongly predicted that “a free, democratic and peaceful Iraq will emerge.”[51]

      He commented on Islamism that, “a culture and (religious) system that has produced this kind of threat (Islamic fundamentalism) must be inherently intolerant and bloodthirsty.” He also criticized the Iraq prison abuse scandals.[52] During the 2004 US presidential election, Liu again praised Bush for his war effort against Iraq and condemned Democratic Party candidate John Kerry for not sufficiently supporting the wars in which the U.S. was then involved.[51][53]

      On Israel, he said “without America’s protection, the long persecuted Jews who faced extermination during World War II, would probably be drowned once more by the Islamic world’s hatred.” He had defended U.S. policies in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which he thought was effective in mediating between the two sides.

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      What logic? You are making wild claims and assumptions that have nothing to do with reality, because you get all of your information from the CIA.

      You can’t say MAGA is bad without agreeing China is bad for the same reasons. You also can’t say China is good without agreeing MAGA is good for the same reasons.

      Yes, MAGA is totally a meritocracy. wow so smart.

      By the way, the source for your article IS FUCKING RADIO FREE ASIA, A CIA OPERATION.

      No, the Chinese Government did not ban winnie the pooh nor the Christopher Robin movie.

      Here’s a way to purchase it. Right now. https://baike.baidu.com/item/克里斯托弗·罗宾/22407179

      Jesus Christ you people do no actual fucking research. and yes I mean you people in the most racist way possible since you people are too racist to think of chinese people as living breathing human beings.

      Like Jesus fucking Christ a movie gets delayed by TWO FUCKING MONTHS and you make up this massive story about how a character is banned because some white people think it looks like an elected leader.