 Also, at townhall.com, Vietnam's long-serving leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, has died. BBC correspondent Michael Bristow has the story. It took many by surprise when Nguyen Phu Trong was chosen as head of the Vietnamese Communist Party in 2021. After all, he was well past the official retirement age and had already served the maximum two terms. The fact that he didn't step down shows how powerful he'd become.