Pham Minh Chinh (C), then Politburo member and Head of the Central Organizing Committee of the Vietnam Communist Party, chats with a deleguate prior to the opening of the second annual session of the National Assembly in Hanoi, October 2017. Pham has been elected as the new Prime Minister during the CPV’s recent 13th National Congress in Hanoi. (Photo: Hoang Dinh NAM / AFP)