While Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh might lose his job amid rampant tensions within the government (IO 30/08/22), spymaster Pham Ngoc Hung finds himself caught up in almost intractable conflicts of loyalties.
At the head of the Vietnamese defence ministry's (intelligence) Directorate General No. 2 (DG2) since 2014, the general still faces an uncertain future. On the one hand, Hung defers directly to the political bureau of the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), and more specifically to its general
