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The 100% Illusion: Tô Lâm and Việt Nam’s Theater of the Unanimous

By Aerolyne Reed4 min read
Photo: Vietnam News Agency. Graphic: ĐVH/The Vietnamese Magazine.

Even in the most harmonious of democratic societies, getting the entire population to unanimously agree on something as simple as the color of the sky is a near-impossible task. 

Yet, during the closed-door sessions of Việt Nam’s 16th National Assembly, the state legislature miraculously achieved just that. 

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Aerolyne Reed

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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