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71-year old Trong re-elected as general secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party

  (Reuters) — The 12th National Congress of the Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party concluded in Hanoi on Thursday (January 28) after re-electing Nguyen Phu Trong as the party’s General Secretary. The re-election was an expected outcome that bolsters consensus rule but creates some uncertainty about the momentum of economic reform. Trong, 71, is seen by experts as a conservative apparatchik and a party loyalist unlikely to deviate from the party’s economic and foreign policy agenda, […]