By David Brown
Asia Times, Dec 22, 2012
One afternoon in mid-December, Colonel Tran Dang Thanh shared his views on foreign affairs with an audience of deans and professors drawn from Hanoi’s many universities. Like all Vietnamese Communist Party business, Thanh’s comments were considered state secrets. However, unbeknownst to Thanh, who teaches at Vietnam’s top military college, someone in the audience was wired. A full text was soon uploaded to the Internet and went viral.
The occasion was a meeting of senior Party cadre who administer or teach at colleges
and universities in the capital area, and who double as functionaries charged with propaganda and training. They had been convened to hear Thanh lecture on the situation in the South China Sea.
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