Nguyen Tan Dung was once a “defeated opponent” to late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. However, looking back, their children are very different now. Nguyen Trong Truong – 48 years old, the eldest son of the late party chief, has now disappeared without a trace. According to unofficial information, he does not participate in the state apparatus. Perhaps because Trong is afraid of the brutality of the political world, he kept his children away? Trong is a master in politics, he understood better than anyone the vicious tricks of his comrades against each other.
On the contrary, the children of the former prime minister are different. Nguyen Thanh Nghi – 49 years old is waiting for the day to enter the Politburo and the position of Secretary of the Party Committee of a large economic region is waiting. Nghi will become a Politburo member while other factions in the South were in decline. This promises that Nghi will become the center of power for other factions in the South to ask for help. After entering the Politburo, no Southerner had a voice that influenced the Party Central Committee as much as the former minister of construction.
To achieve outstanding results compared to his retired colleagues of the same age, Dung pioneered in many things. Notably, his plans for political investment in the future.
He was the pioneer in breaking the barrier by sending his children to study abroad in Europe and America. Nghi studied in the US, his older sister Nguyen Thanh Phuong studied in Switzerland and his younger brother Nguyen Minh Triet studied in England. Although that knowledge was not used in politics, it created a very strong personal brand for his children. The trio all spoke fluent English, a capital that very few Communist officials had.
In addition to investing in his children’s study abroad, Dung also invested in future relationships. He had both public and “hidden” juniors. When Dung went to war with Trong, the public juniors all received heavy beatings. Among them are Dinh La Thang, Tran Bac Ha and Hoang Trung Hai, etc. However, the group of “hidden” juniors is the factor that helps Dung’s family revive spectacularly after Trong died.
Pham Minh Chinh, a junior of Dung, but is hiding safely in the Secretariat of Trong for the 2016-2021 term. Only when Chinh suddenly jumped from the Secretariat to the Government and took the Prime Minister’s seat right under Vuong Dinh Hue’s nose, did people know that Chinh was Dung’s junior. Thanks to Chinh, Nghi was promoted from Deputy Minister of Construction to the Minister’s seat.
Chinh is a painful blow that Dung has inflicted on Trong. However, that is not the most painful blow. The most painful blow is probably To Lam, a character that Trong trusted and used for a long time, but turned out to be Dung’s man. When Trong was on his sickbed, his ability to run the regime was no longer there, he was hit by Lam’s treasonous blow. Perhaps this was the most painful blow for the General Secretary before he passed away. The trusted juniors that Trong had built up for many years were defeated, Lam grapped power and revived Dung’s power.
It is unclear whether Dung’s sons Nghi and Triet have his cunning. Because both are still very young. However, with a basic level of education, with enough experience and with the “reminders” of their famous uncle, both can completely inherit what Dung once had.
Although Lam is strong, he is not strong enough to build a family-ruled empire, he can only build a local-ruled empire. As for Nghi and Triet, they are completely capable of building a “family-ruled” empire in the future.
Tran Chuong -Thoibao.de
