There is normative pressure building up regionally in support of peacekeeping under U.N. auspices.

This time you're going to bring in people who were educated in Vietnam and have much wider experience abroad than any of their predecessors. They will have been more involved in developing the country than trying to get rid of foreigners or trying to recover from the ravages of war.

We know over the last year, in the build-up, there had been attempts to get him to step down, to attack his leadership. I don't see the fire from these sparks. It seems to have died out.

There is general agreement on the direction of economic policy, anti-corruption, reform of state-owned enterprises.

What's new is the electronic media and the sheer volume of it was exceptional.