Former Public Security minister To Lam gains power as acting general secretary, president

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM/WASHINGTON — Experts say Vietnamese President To Lam, now also Vietnam’s acting general secretary, has used the country’s anticorruption campaign to oust political rivals and is shifting from Hanoi’s tradition of collective leadership toward a more authoritarian regime. Lam, a former public security minister, had been named president in May and took on the new post earlier this month after the death of 80-year-old General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Zachary Abuza, a professor at Washington's National War College...