‘Beloved General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong: Eternally in the Hearts of Friends Worldwide’
Grief and Respect: A Tribute to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong On the morning of July 26, a solemn scene unfolded at the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing. A 77-year-old woman, Vu Thuc Hue, dressed in dark attire, arrived to pay her respects to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. With a heavy heart, she bowed respectfully before the late leader and then quietly penned her condolences in the memorial book, expressing her deepest sympathies in Chinese. Vu Thuc Hue, a 77-year-old Beijing resident, signs the condolence book for General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing on July 26. Hue, a former nurse at the Guilin Nanxishan Hospital in China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, has a special connection to Vietnam. Her hospital once treated wounded soldiers and officials from South Vietnam. Just two months ago, she attended the 70th-anniversary celebrations of the Dien Bien Phu victory in Vietnam. Upon hearing the news of General Secretary Nguyen ...