Vietnam's political infighting has gone quiet but is far from over

High-level purge on pause amid growing worries about slowing economy

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Vietnamese Communist Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and his allies may not be able to purge rivals again in an open way until the next party congress expected in 2026. © Reuters

Zachary Abuza is a professor of strategy security at the U.S. National War College in Washington. The views expressed here are his own and may not reflect those of the college or the U.S. government.

After an anti-corruption campaign that saw 7,500 officials including the country's president and members of the Communist Party Politburo forced to resign or jailed over the course of nearly a decade, the Vietnamese leadership is at last shifting gears as the economy loses steam.

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