What do you mean far less censorship? The censorship of Vietnamese media in Vietnam is just as strong as Chinese media in China. "Liberal" anglophone media is a

What do you mean far less censorship? The censorship of Vietnamese media in Vietnam is just as strong as Chinese media in China. "Liberal" anglophone media is a deliberate government tactic to draw in investment - see the English versions of state media and compare them to the Vietnamese editions. Power is just as concentrated in Vietnam as in China. There are massive factions that are aligned with Xi and that lead to the current policy. When those factions align behind Phu Trong we identify those factions as being decisive. In reality the two are very similar. The CCP was founded almost at the same time as the KMT. They had almost identical founding objectives. Yes the KMT did most of the work early on but the CCP still fought the Japanese and they were not founded to overthrow the KMT. I'm not saying that Stalin and Gorbachev are the same. I'm saying that Khrushchev and a Gorbachev which would have been successful would be similar.