Within that existing order, once the matter of who is taking the decisions has been settled, the actual answers are predictable and – for the most part – need not alarm business or foreign investors. To thwart President Quang, Trong’s anti-corruption drive has been trained on Quang’s prior stomping ground, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS), the country’s state security apparatus. They will impact on economic interests, and often unknowing foreign investors, to which the targeted officials can be connected, even distantly. Highly unpredictable, only the most well-informed foreign investors would see politically-driven investigations coming, or understand their origin and implications. Big money deals involving foreign capital and private conglomerates such as Vingroup attest to wider interest in Vietnam.

Source: Forbes April 26, 2018 14:15 UTC