Vietnamese human rights lawyer Vo An Don and his family were stopped by police in Ho Chi Minh City this week from boarding a flight to New York, where they had hoped to apply for political asylum in the US, the well-known rights lawyer told RFA on Wednesday.
Don and other family members were barred from leaving Vietnam by police at Tan Son Nhat Airport at around 9:42 p.m. on Sept. 27, Don said, calling the action taken against him by authorities arbitrary and vindictive.
Don added that airport police told him he would need to contact immigration authorities in his home province of Phu Yen, on Vietnam’s south-central coast, for an explanation of the order barring his travel overseas.
He and his family were now on their way back to Phu Yen, Don said.
“I’ll work with the Phu Yen police tomorrow to find out why my departure was temporarily suspended,” Don said, saying that airport police had cited “security reasons” for blocking his departure in accordance with Article 36 of the Law on Entry and Exit for Vietnamese citizens.
According to Vietnamese law, citizens of the country have the right to travel domestically and overseas, Don said. “I’ll take legal action against them and file a request for compensation if they fail to give legitimate reasons for what they did,” he added.
“In the past, I used to work as a defense lawyer for ordinary, common people,” said Don, whose license to practice law was revoked in 2017 after he successfully defended the right to benefits of the surviving family members of a person who died in police custody.
“Since then I have only stayed at home and worked as a farmer. I have not been involved in any other cases or broken the law, and there is therefore no reason to say that I have been a threat to national security,” he said.
Don said he and his family had decided to seek asylum in the US because they were suffering harassment by Phu Yen authorities and economic hardship since he could no longer work as a lawyer.
The Washington-based International Organization for Migration (IOM) had secured advance funding for the family’s airfare, which was returned to the IOM when the family could no longer fly.
Don had taken his children out of school and given away many of his family’s belongings before trying to leave, and now has to buy many household appliances again, he said. He hopes his children’s schools will now allow them to return to class, he added.
‘Prestige of the Party’
Requests for comment sent to the US Embassy, IOM offices in Vietnam and the Vietnam Immigration Department received no responses this week.
A Sept. 28 article in the Ministry of Public Security’s Public Security Newsletter said however that Don during his work as a lawyer had “damaged the prestige” of the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party and government by posting stories on social media and speaking to members of the foreign press.
Speaking to RFA, Truong Minh Tam — a Vietnamese lawyer and human rights activist now living in Illinois — said that Phu Yen police had abused their authority by ordering the suspension of Don’s right to travel abroad.
“According to Article 37 of the Law on Exit and Entry of Vietnamese Citizens, only the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Public Security have that authority,” Tam said.
Also speaking to RFA, Vietnamese musician and political observer Tuan Khanh noted that Don had successfully brought a suit in 2014 against five Phu Yen police officers who caused the death of a citizen, Ngo Thanh Kieu, held in their custody.
This had likely made Don a target for provincial authorities’ revenge, Khanh said.
Translated by Anna Vu for RFA Vietnamese. Written in English by Richard Finney.
Vietnamese authorities canceled a weekend concert by popular overseas-based Vietnamese singer Khanh Ly, raising concerns from activists that officials in the one-party Communist state had political motives for the cancellation.
The musical show, “Nostalgia of Hanoi Autumn,” slated for Sept 24, was canceled at the last minute, with the Hanoi Opera House citing electricity cuts at the venue in the Vietnamese capital.
But some activists told RFA that they doubted the official reasoning provided for scrapping a program that also featured other well-known Vietnamese singers, including Cam Van, Khac Trieu, Duc Tuan, and Quang Thanh..
Poet Hoang Hung, a member of Vietnam Independent Writers Association, said that his experiences told him to doubt the “technical reason” as explained in the letter.
“It’s noteworthy that some articles covering this incident have been removed. My experience tells me that there must be something suspicious here,” he told RFA. “In Vietnam, there is always another reason that everyone can figure out. It is: The authorities don’t like it.”
Local authorities in Hanoi had weaponized power outages to stop two restaurants from serving a meeting for members of Văn Viêt, a literature forum created by a group of Vietnamese writers to campaign for and promote the establishment of a “Vietnam Independent Writers Association,” Hung noted.
He also said that authorities have become more cautious in granting cultural event permits than in previous years.
Khanh Ly has performed in Vietnam on previous occasions.
She fled Vietnam after the fall of Saigon, the capital of the former South Vietnam government, to Communist Party rule in 1975, and had been performing across Vietnam since June in a tour celebrating her 60-year musical career.
But in her first performance on the 2022 tour, singing for over 1,000 fans in the highland city of Da Lat, she sang “Gia tai của me” (Mother’s treasure), a song that was not on the pre-approved list of songs that authorities had reviewed. As a result, the organizer received a fine and was reprimanded.
“No one believes this absurd reason. I think it was just an act of revenge by the authorities against Khank Ly for her performance of the song “Gia tai cua me” – a beautiful song with anti-war spirit and great humane values,” Germany-based writer Vo Thi Hao said about the cancellation.
This picture taken on July 28, 2014 shows a poster featuring an upcoming live performance by well-known exiled Vietnamese singer Khanh Ly in downtown Hanoi. Credit: AFP
Nguyen Huu Vinh, Chairman of Vietnam Independent Journalists’ Association, cited other examples where authorities used similar tactics to halt events they did not approve of. In 2016, he said that Hanoi police officers disguised themselves as tile cutting workers working at a monument to stop dissidents from commemorating the 74 soldiers of the former Republic of Vietnam who were killed while protecting the Paracel Islands in fighting with China in 1974.
Eight years ago, an electricity cut was also used as the reason to close an exhibition about notorious land reform policies in Vietnam’s north in the 1950s. According to Nguyen Huu Vinh, the exhibition was actually shut down because of the heavy presence of those who had suffered from injustice during the campaign.
Some state media outlets initially ran reports questioning the show’s cancellation, but those articles were quickly taken offline.
Vietnam’s Transport Newspaper said that the organizer of this program had suffered a loss of 1.5 billion Vietnamese dong (US$63,000).
The Young People newspaper ran an article titled “Stopping Khanh Ly’s live show in Hanoi: What do the organizers have to say?” while the Labor newspaper’s headline read: “Why was the VND 2 billion show of Khanh Ly, Duc Tuan, Cam Van in Hanoi canceled?”
The critical articles could no longer be found online as of Sept. 25.
Musician Tuan Khanh from Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City told RFA that this recent incident was just an example of how the Vietnamese government saw viewed Khanh Ly, and that he viewed it was impossible for one person to coordinate this restriction by themselves.
In addition to Hanoi and Hai Phong, Khanh Ly’s shows in other cities, including the central city of Hue and the northern city of Hung Yen, have also been canceled.
Eight years ago, Hong Kong law professor Benny Tai proclaimed the official launch of his “Occupy Central with People and Love” civil disobedience movement campaigning for fully democratic elections.
Tai, who is now awaiting trial for “subversion” for his role in a 2020 democratic primary, launched the movement in response to the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP)’s Aug. 31, 2014 decree that, while the city’s voters could enjoy a one person, one vote system, they could only choose from a slate of candidates already approved by Beijing.
The government’s 2014 plan, which was eventually imposed on Legislative Council elections in December 2021, was rejected by pro-democracy politicians and student activists as “fake universal suffrage,” prompting a wave of class boycotts and sit-ins across the city, including an “invasion” of Civic Square, which had been declared off-limits by police.
Among the student leaders who took Tai’s idea and turned it into a 79-day mass civil disobedience campaign that saw thousands of people camping out on major thoroughfares in downtown Hong Kong was Alex Chow, who as student union chief spearheaded the movement alongside youth activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, Nathan Law and Lester Shum.
“Everyone was forced to escalate these non-violent methods to put more pressure on the government, because there was no other channel left to the really huge number of Hong Kongers who were demanding political reform in 2014,” Chow told RFA in an interview marking the eighth anniversary of the movement.
“It was very disappointing that the occupation by the Umbrella Movement was unable to get the government to make these reforms,” he said.
“But that feeling of disappointment actually prompted even more resistance in Hong Kong later on,” Chow said. “It was behind the mass movement against extradition [to mainland China] in 2019.”
Joshua Wong is currently jailed for his part in the 2019 pro-democracy movement, while Shum and Agnes Chow have also served time in jail.
Like Alex Chow, Law is currently in exile overseas, wanted for alleged criminal offenses since a draconian national security law imposed on Hong Kong by Beijing took effect on July 1, 2020.
The early days of Occupy Central, with widespread use of tear gas by riot police on young people defending themselves with little but umbrellas and face-masks, saw Hong Kong’s political struggles make headlines around the world.
Hong Kong student leader Alex Chow speaks after arriving at the police headquarters to assist investigations in relation to the Occupy civil disobedience movement, in Hong Kong, Jan. 18, 2015. Credit: Reuters
By the time the 2019 mass protests erupted over plans to allow the extradition of alleged criminal suspects to face trial in mainland China, it was becoming clear that Beijing had no intention of keeping promises of fully democratic elections made as part of the 1997 handover agreement, nor of allowing the city to maintain its traditional freedoms for at least 50 years.
“Without the Umbrella Movement, we would never have seen such a strong public reaction, nor would the voices opposing [the extradition amendment] have been so loud,” Chow said. “So the Umbrella Movement was extremely important.”
“It was the turning point of an era, and it meant that Hong Kongers were aware of this, and of the need for change,” Chow said.
“A lot of schoolkids and young people were involved in this movement in 2014, bringing an important momentum to bear, and making the Umbrella Movement happen,” he said.
“Their actions were a wake-up call to many more Hong Kongers, who came to understand that, without reform, there would be no future for Hong Kong,” Chow said. “We had enough power to say no to Beijing, and to the Hong Kong government, and to refuse to accept [Beijing’s Aug. 31, 2014 decree on the electoral system].”
“There’s no way Hong Kong could have made the kind of progress [towards political awakening] that it did without … the Umbrella Movement].”
Since arriving in the U.S., Chow has thrown himself into “international front” work, serving on the board of the Hong Kong Democracy Council (HKDC), which vows to be “a voice for Hong Kong and Hong Kongers in the U.S.,” according to its website.
The international pro-democracy lobby for Hong Kong successfully lobbied the U.S. government to impose sanctions on Hong Kong and Chinese officials, and removing the city’s status as an independent trading entity.
U.S. allies have also offered varying degrees of assistance to Hong Kongers fleeing political persecution, including the U.K. government’s offer of citizenship-track visas to more than three million holders of the British National Overseas (BNO) passport and their dependents.
Nonetheless, the complete suppression of dissenting voices in Hong Kong in the wake of the national security law, as well as the jailing of dozens of fellow activists and democratic politicians, has taken a huge psychological toll on activists in exile.
“I see so many of my colleagues in Hong Kong being detained and imprisoned, and some very close friends have basically cut off contact with me,” Chow said.
“I have been very lonely here in the U.S. — I went through a period of huge grief last year.”
“[I was wondering] if there is still any hope for Hong Kong, and what else I could do to help our people,” he said. “How can you connect Hong Kong to what you do, if you can’t even go back there?”
“There has been an enormous amount of pain and struggle, and a lot of self-doubt,” Chow said.
Ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping has made an appearance on state television, scotching rumors on social media that he was under house arrest.
China Central Television (CCTV) showed footage of Xi viewing an exhibit at the Beijing Exhibition Hall titled “Forging Ahead into the New Era,” a reference to his personal brand of political ideology.
Rumors had been swirling on Chinese-language Twitter that the 69-year-old Xi’s absence from the public eye presaged a bid to topple him from power ahead of the CCP’s 20th National Congress next month, where Xi will seek an unprecedented third term in office after amending the constitution in 2018 to remove term limits on the leadership.
In a country where all information is tightly controlled by government censors and the media are expected to sing the praises of its leaders, coup rumors aren’t infrequent.
The recent rumors were partly sparked by online remarks made by Song Ping, a centenarian former member of the all-powerful Politburo standing committee, who appeared to criticize recent moves by Xi’s administration to ensure greater state control of an economy no longer driven by exports, but by domestic demand.
However, Xi is highly likely to have been in compulsory quarantine following his Sept. 16 return from the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Uzbekistan.
Veteran journalist Cheng Yizhong, founder of the Southern Metropolis Daily, said much of the rumors resulted from wishful thinking among Chinese intellectuals.
“It’s such nonsense. How could that even happen?” Cheng said. “This is all people’s personal emotions talking, and has nothing to do with reality.”
A senior political source in Beijing said it was true that Xi has faced challenges to his recent policy directions from within the party, but the key challenge for Xi will be the issue of the third term next month.
The release of “Born to Fly,” a Top Gun-style action movie about Chinese pilots, had been scheduled for the Oct. 1 National Day holiday week but has been nixed. Credit: Born to Fly
Zero-COVID policy
The Cyberspace Administration of China and the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department declined to comment when contacted by RFA on Monday.
Xi’s zero-COVID policy, which has entailed frequent and grueling lockdowns leading to a nationwide economic downturn and hardship for affected residents, is a major focus of dissent within the ruling party, analysts have told RFA.
The president’s insistence on a tougher kind of “wolf warrior” diplomacy, which has alienated trading partners, and his moves towards greater state control of the economy have also been unpopular.
But a growing personality cult is also emerging around Xi, generating an atmosphere of fear, in which powerful individuals and institutions are expected to repeatedly demonstrate their loyalty to the CCP’s “core leader.”
Nonetheless, political analysts generally expect that Xi will win approval at the party congress, which opens in Beijing on Oct. 16, for his third five-year term at the helm of party and state, despite some misgivings in party ranks over giving a single leader too much power.
Police and local officials have stepped up security measures across China in recent weeks, displacing large numbers of migrant workers and petitioners, sending them back to their hometowns ahead of the congress.
Government censors have been purging social media accounts and cultural productions deemed not to hit the right note of joyful praise and positive energy ahead of the five-yearly event.
No ‘wolf-warrior’ films
A Top Gun-style action movie about Chinese pilots titled “Born to Fly” was pulled from movie theaters, where it had been scheduled for release during the Oct. 1 National Day holiday week.
A movie industry insider who gave only the surname Gu said nobody is sure why the film had been pulled, but one theory suggests it could have shown viewers a little too much detail regarding China’s newest fighter jet, the J-20.
She said the suspension had been ordered by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT).
“The SARFT issued an instruction that no ‘wolf-warrior’ type films could be released,” Gu said.
“People are saying they are worried about [such films] stoking up a warlike mentality.”
The film’s distributors declined to comment on the reason for the move, saying only that the movie’s release had been “rescheduled.”
“This incident has had a huge impact on the film industry,” she said. “Firstly, this film was a big investment, one of the biggest, with hugely expensive special effects … and had been expected to do very well at the box office.”
“Secondly, this comes after the suspension of [gritty rural love story] Return to Dust … which means that there’s not a lot of topics that are safe for the Chinese film industry to make,” Gu said.
Current affairs commentator Pan Lu said Xi likely wants to ensure his third term is in the bag before addressing the question of whether to invade the democratic island of Taiwan, which the CCP claims as its territory despite never having held it, and despite massive public opposition to Chinese rule among the island’s 23 million people.
“They don’t really need for there to be too much nationalistic sentiment affecting [Xi’s next term] in power,” Pan told RFA. “[Such movies] always have imaginary enemies like the United States, Taiwan or Japan.”
“It was originally made as a form of political flattery, but now it comes across as a bit superfluous, and the CCP fears it could have unintended consequences,” Pan said.
Vietnam’s support for Russia during the latter’s illegal invasion of Ukraine is not surprising due to the long historical relationship between the two states, even though the justification for the attack creates a very dangerous legal precedent for Hanoi, coping with a territorially aggressive neighbor of its own. Russia is a “strategic comprehensive partner,” many ranks above the United States in Hanoi’s diplomatic hierarchy. But Russian losses put the government in a very awkward position vis-à-vis its public who often use foreign policy as an oblique means to criticize the Communist Party.
Vietnam will forever be indebted to Russia for its support during the American War. In particular, the provision of some 7,600 advanced surface-to-air missiles denied the United States uncontested airspace. During Vietnam’s occupation of Cambodia in the 1980s, the Soviet Union provided significant amounts of weaponry and economic support and was one of the diplomatically isolated Hanoi’s few allies.
Though economic aid and military assistance ceased by 1991, and the leadership in Hanoi was aghast at the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia became the main supplier of Vietnam’s military modernization program. At its peak, 80 percent of all Vietnamese military equipment was Russian. That number is coming down, but Russia still accounts for 74 percent of Vietnam’s imported weaponry, even amidst a diversification effort.
There remain close intelligence ties as well. Although the Soviets withdrew from their naval base in Cam Ranh Bay in 1991, they maintained their signals intelligence facility there, which remains operational. There continues to be close intelligence sharing and training. This fact is not lost on the 19-member Politburo, five of whom came out of the Ministry of Public Security.
On the diplomatic front, Vietnam largely blamed Ukraine for bringing the war on itself, by not managing great power competition correctly. The thinking went, that if Kyiv had Hanoi’s “4 Nos and a Maybe” foreign policy, they wouldn’t have gotten themselves invaded.
But most of all, until the war, Putin was held in high regard in Vietnam by both the leadership and public alike. For a country perpetually torn between the United States and China, Putin’s Russia provided an interesting alternative pole that at least appeared self-reliant and somewhat independent.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) meets with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) at the Government’s Office in Hanoi, July 6, 2022. Credit: AFP
Cool with it
At a time when Russia is increasingly diplomatically isolated, Hanoi has continued its embrace. Hanoi welcomed foreign minister Sergei Lavrov ahead of the G20 foreign ministers’ meeting in Indonesia. Lavrov reiterated Hanoi’s concerns about “non-interference” and “sovereignty”, playing up fears of U.S. meddling in Vietnam’s domestic politics. Russia, he reminded his interlocutors was a benevolent power committed to Hanoi regime security.
Vietnam abstained in the vote to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but supported Russia in its bid to stay on the Human Rights Council. Vietnam also sent a military team to participate in Russia’s annual “army games.”
This prompted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to cancel his visit to Hanoi. This was a very clear signal of displeasure towards a government that has been showered with attention since 2021, including visits by the Secretaries of Defense, State, and the Vice President, amongst others.
U.S.-Vietnam bilateral trade in 2021 was $112 billion, compared to a mere $5.54 billion with Russia. The United States is now Vietnam’s largest export market – accounting for 25.6 percent of all exports in 2021, and a source of high-tech investment.
The United States has already quietly sanctioned one Vietnamese firm for evading sanctions for Russia.
Georgian activists protest against mass immigration from Russia at the Kazbegi / Verkhniy Lars border crossing point between the two countries on September 28, 2022. The latest wave of Russian exiles since the conflict began in February has seen military-aged men pour into the Caucasus country. Credit: AFP
Media carry disinformation
Vietnam’s state-controlled media was not as neutral as some suggest, and tended to be more pro-Russian from the start. Ukraine had a really hard time getting their message out amidst Russian disinformation.
There was some pro-Ukrainian sentiment in Vietnam’s lively FaceBook groups. Some people were very sympathetic to the country being victimized by a rapacious neighbor. Others understood the legal precedent that China would take from Putin’s justification for war.
But by and large, the online sentiment was a pro-Russian and explicitly anti-western “echo chamber”. Two Vietnamese researchers who studied the 28 FaceBook pages and groups found that there were eight pro-Russian out of patriotism and nostalgia, 18 that were patriotic/conservative and anti-western, and finally those that simply presented pro-Russian news takes.
Force-47, the Vietnam People’s Army’s (VPA) 10,000-man cyber watchdog and shaper force, has been active in blocking pro-Uranian and anti-Russian sentiment while pushing the Russian narrative through its own network of influencers.
But Russian forces are now being humiliated and in the midst of a strategic collapse. Kyiv’s offensive has routed Russia in northern and eastern Ukraine. Over 1,500 square miles of territory have already been recaptured, as Russia was forced to implement their “tactical withdraw plan”. Putin had to address Chinese President Xi Jinping’s “concerns” at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s recent summit.
The setbacks in Ukraine forced Putin to order the country’s first military draft since the second world war, a “partial mobilization” of all reservists and able-bodied veterans. The order prompted demonstrations across Russia and triggered an exodus of fighting-age men to foreign countries. Resistance to the draft is further demonstration of President Putin’s deteriorating control, and the rapid deployment of untrained troops is a sign of the regime’s desperation.
For Hanoi, the real concern is that a greater questioning of Russian capabilities and Putin’s leadership will quickly morph into anti-party discussions. Government pundits have doubled down, and been dismissive of Russian losses.
And that’s for a reason: Foreign policy debates have a nasty habit of turning into opportunities to question the leadership in Vietnam.
Soul searching
Russian losses should prompt concerns in Hanoi. Their military is dominated by Russian equipment. The VPA is still highly influenced by Soviet doctrine. Their military remains top down and unable for local commanders to seize the initiative. The VPA remains a party army, legally bound to defend the regime, not the state.
And Hanoi should be very concerned about the deleterious effects of corruption on force readiness, logistics, and operations. The once vaunted VPA has been caught in a number of corruption scandals of late, including a Covid-19 testing scheme, a Coast Guard procurement and protection racket scandals, and land. Russia’s military was hollowed out by endemic corruption, something that’s become normalized in Vietnam.
Finally, Hanoi has to be alarmed that Russia’s very real losses will impact the VPA’s own procurement. Russia must quickly recapitalize its forces, and do so in the face of continued sanctions and shortages of precision milling equipment to semiconductors. There will be a shortage of Russian spare parts for years, let alone delayed delivery schedules for new equipment and munitions. This has an immediate impact on Vietnam’s security.
Kyiv’s strong defense and now successful offense put Hanoi in a bind in one final way: Ukraine’s success was borne out of knowing Soviet doctrine, but adapting Western force structures, tactics, doctrine, and some western equipment. And what made all of that possible was their democratization. If anything Ukraine presents a much more compelling example of a state successfully defending itself against an aggressive great power on its borders. But that is an inconvenient truth for Hanoi.
Zachary Abuza is a professor at the National War College in Washington and an adjunct at Georgetown University. The views expressed here are his own and do not reflect the position of the U.S. Department of Defense, the National War College, Georgetown University or RFA.
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