The Communist Party of Vietnam also needs its own Xi Jingping moment.
ComradeAlt
Careful. If you praise Chinese policies too much, S4A would raid your comments section with his Hoxhaist fans (all 17 of them in the world) calling you a revisionist.
ComradeAlt
I think it also contextualizes the PRC's foreign policy. Deng liberalized China, which I think was indeed necessary to an extent, but inevitably, also drove it further to the right. Xi Jinping returned to Mao's pragmatism which unfortunately does include seemingly inconsistent FP positions