Nguyen Phu Trong, Powerful Vietnamese Leader, Is Dead at 80
Briefly

Nguyen Phu Trong led Vietnam's transformation and reshaped its leadership through an aggressive anticorruption campaign, passing away at 80 with concerns about a successor's authority.
Having served an unprecedented three terms as party chief and almost three decades in the Politburo, Trong left behind a void in leadership in one of the world's few Communist dictatorships.
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