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Why China is getting a boost from Vietnam’s ‘blazing furnace’ anti-graft drive
The drive is shifting economic prosperity closer to the border, and that is opening a new north-south divide.
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A Vietnamese flag flies atop the State Bank building. The anti-corruption drive, termed a "blazing furnace", is running hot and there are concerns among investors that Vietnam is not all that politically stable.
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Vietnam’s anti-corruption drive, which the ruling Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong likened to a “blazing furnace”, is running hot.
This year alone, two of the four pillars of power, including the chairman of the Parliament the country’s president sentenced to death for her role
