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Ha ha we get it all foreign name funny
Perhaps I'm a cynic but whenever I read about corruption crackdowns, I tend to believe that it's more of one group trying to oust another group for the sake of power rather than for the sake of the country >

Pretty much.
Fighting real corruption is fighting established systems.
Fake fighting corruption is going after individuals - enemies and scapegoats. >

So you're saying if I fist fight a sewer system I'm fighting corruption? >

Well, you're at least fighting shit. >

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Ironically he promised to get corruption out of the government and his leaving actually keeps that promise. >

Maybe all the corrupt people are forcing him out so they can keep being corrupt. Happens in Mexico all the time. >

It’s been interesting there in the past few years though, at least as someone who reads news about Mexico in the US. 
The new president seems to be rejecting the “Hugs not guns” philosophy when it comes to cartels. >

Don't agree with Mexico but declaring all out war on the cartels is a terrible idea. They hold way too much power and have shown to resort to bloody measures when threatened. 
The only reasonable way to get rid of them is dismantling them from within. >

Or…. Acknowledging they wouldn’t exist without the USAs War on Drugs and abolishing old laws based on racism. 
No black market = no massive organized crime syndicates 
Look no further than the alcohol prohibition. >

That's not going to stop them. >

Stop? Maybe not but it will force them to change their business model. If drugs were legal in the US cartels wouldn’t be fighting the government they’d be competing with Phillip Morris. Look at just pot, where I live it’s legal as a consequence there are no pot dealers anymore, or rather the ones I knew all either had to shift to drugs that still have a decent markup or are providing a convenient service like home delivery or have shifted to growing their own. There is no mystery just market forces I pay a little more at a dispensary but I know what I am getting, have many more products to choose from and I have literally had a cop hold the door for me when I was walking out of one with a big bag o’ drugs. He smiled and told me to stay safe and have a good weekend. Compared to the time a cop kneeled on my back and cuffed me for having a single joint in my pocket I really enjoyed officer smiley more. >

That's what I meant. They'd just switch up their business model >

If their new business model doesn’t include setting people on fire that’s a win. >

Coca cola proves that's still an option for a legitimate corporation so I'd not count on it. The cartel would just partner with Pfizer and turn the heroin into pills and cocaine into anesthetic etc and then we'd end up with a quite literal medical cartel. Not that it's a far shot now. >

I totally forgot that this is funny in English. I’m married to a Vietnamese national and it’s pronounced differently in Vietnamese. My wife is looking at me laughing at these comments and is so confused. >

At least those are easy to pronounce for westerners unlike Ngan, Ngoc, Tran, Trang, Nguyen, Hau, etc. >

Nguyen is pronounced "Win", right? But whyyy? >

Not quite, but it's the cheater way to get close. The "Ng" has a specific sound, the "N" is not silent. It takes a good deal of practice to get it right I'd you've gone your whole life without producing that sound :)
It helps to start with your tongue on the roof of your mouth like when making "N", and then push your tongue forward on the roof of your mouth as you transition through the rest of the word.
Once you can hear both the N and G while still keeping the word one syllable, you are probably very close. >

"N'win" is the closest I think I can get. >

It took me 6 months of living here to finally get it :) don't sweat it. It took the shame of mispronouncing a good friend's name to motivate me. >

I'm in luck, the only Vietnamese person I know IRL right now is named "Phan".  That I can do. >

Sounds like he Phucced Up. >

So they told him to Phuc off. >

I'm a Vietnamese and let say this news didnt excited me one bit. With Phuc left and Nguyen Phu Trong remains as the single most powerful political figure in Vietnam, things look grim now. Both politicans are equally corrupted but Phuc atleast tried to keep his distance with the CCP. This whole corruption hunting thing also saw Pham Binh Minh and Vu Duc Dam resigned, both were also very skeptical of CCP's foreign policy. I can easily connect the dots and Trong's recently visiting with Xi showed the party wanted to deepen its tight with China. Now it's not necessarily a bad thing moving in with your powerful neighbor but this move was more like a desperate attemp than an equal agreement. The Covid pandemic struck our economy badly and the party's copycat strategy from China in handling the situation didnt help.  They lost their popularity and now in massive debt which could potentially kickstart an internal crisis. Turning toward the West/ US for help is a big no in their book, that would required them to actually give up their power opening the way for democracy and true election. The only way out now for them is to kneel before the CCP, let them have more influence on us both economically and politically in exchange for their financial supports. Hence Minh and Dam also needed to go. 
Some of the commie bots will come tell you I'm full of conspiracy and China means no harm for their "friends". The truth is China has been our most fought enemy for thousand of years. The 1979 border war and those recent clashes of power in the South China Sea  also reminded us how vicious and opportunistic they are. Thus the need to stay vigilant is always true. >

Haha as a foreigner living in Vietnam most every Vietnamese person I know hates or strongly distrusts the Chinese government, and products. >

Distrust of China is not a recent development for the Chinese. The Vietnam War (with the US) is just a minor issue compared to their history with China (who also attacked them after that war!). >


not a recent development for the Chinese

I think you mean Vietnamese, here? >

Technically, South East Asian Chinese People is one of the most Anti-China people.
South Chinese people of Canton, Hakka and Yue Culture group has been the victims of Discrimination from the Han of the North. Thus why they were immigrating for hundreds of years down south.
Thus why if you go to South East Asia, Chinese people there tend to speak Cantonese or Fukien not Mandarin.
Technically the first Democracy in Asia was founded by immigrants from China that settled in Borneo called the Kongsi Federations and the most famous and bigges is tha of Lanfang.
During and after the Chinese Civil War, a lot of KMT affiliated and refugees Chinese People immigrated to SEA to escape and is considered the biggest wave of Chinese Immigration in recent date. >


Thus why if you go to South East Asia, Chinese people there tend to speak Cantonese or Fukien not Mandarin.

Eh, that has really changed in the last decade or so. Among the 2 largest chinese SEA populations in Singapore and Malaysia, dialects are slowly dying off with every generation. I'm Singaporean chinese with relatives in Malaysia and most people my age (30s) or younger really tend to only stick with mandarin and english.
My own use of cantonese in my daily life has dropped drastically since my grandparents passed, but I will admit it's still useful to converse with older aunties and uncles. >

It's a shame really, our mother tongue should be the dialects not putonghua. >

That is the Internal Security faction of the politburo hitting on the Economic Development faction. Now let us look at the other side, because cynicism alone will not help understand the situation and improve it:
1/ Punishing responsible officials is better than letting them run free. I wish more corrupt politicians and businessmen faced real penalties in occidental multiparty countries too.
2/ The crackdown has been running since 2016 at least. It is effective. Vietnam corruption
situation is slowly improving. According to Transparency International, VN was 128/176 most corrupt country in 2010, it ranked 87/180 in 2021.
3/ The general secretary is an old man with a rather clean reputation. I would prefer to be remembered in history as a statesman who did his best to reform and promote integrity in the institution, than as a grandpa who left lots of real estate to his familly.
4/ The occidental system of crowdsourcing finger-pointing to the press / bloggers has
its limits too: money can control the press, the elections, bias the judiciary. These countries get populists leaders and social disorder as in “storming the parliamentary”. >

I refuse to believe anyone retain power that long is clean >

President Phuc