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Vietnam's Trong, longtime leader and advocate of 'bamboo diplomacy', dies
Nguyen Phu Trong, the Marxist-Leninist who led Vietnam for more than a decade overseeing rapid economic growth and more recently trod a fine line in elevating ties with both China and the U.S. with his 'bamboo diplomacy', has died. He was 80. For …