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Transparency, Theater, and Duplicity in Việt Nam’s General Elections

Aerolyne Reed by Aerolyne Reed
23 March 2026
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Transparency, Theater, and Duplicity in Việt Nam’s General Elections

General Secretary Tô Lâm attends the opening ceremony of Election Day at Polling Station No. 02, Ba Đình Ward, Hà Nội. Photo: Việt Nam Government Press/Nhật Bắc. Graphic: ĐVH/The Vietnamese Magazine.

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Aerolyne Reed

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Aerolyne Reed is a writer and she does not consider herself as anyone special. She thinks she is just another sound, lost in a multitude of voices, just another soul adrift in the aetherial sea.

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