Vietnam's leadership upheaval signals regime's security focus
Nhu Truong is assistant professor of Southeast Asia and social justice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Unity, whether real or projected, is almost always desirable for an authoritarian regime. In recent months, however, the Vietnamese Communist Party has been airing its dirty laundry in public, or to use the Vietnamese idiom, vach ao cho nguoi xem lung -- pulling up one's shirt to show one's back.