Hoàng Văn Hoan - Wikipedia

Vietnamese politician (1905–1991) In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Hoàng. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Hoan.
Hoàng Văn Hoan
Vice Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam(1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th)
In office23 April 1958 – 24 June 1979
ChairmanTrường Chinh
General Secretary of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly(1st, 2nd)
In officeApril 1958 – June 1962
ChairmanTrường Chinh
Succeeded byXuân Thủy
Communist Party Secretary of Hanoi
In officeJanuary 1961 – June 1961
DeputyNguyễn Thọ ChânTrần Minh ViệtTrần Anh Liên
Preceded byTrần Danh Tuyên
Succeeded byNguyễn Lam
Member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam(2nd, 3rd)
In officeOctober 1956 – December 1976
General SecretaryHồ Chí MinhLê Duẩn (as First Secretary)
Ambassador of Vietnam to Chinawith accreditation as North Korea & Mongolia
In office1950 – April 1957
Succeeded byNguyễn Khang (to China) Trần Độ (to North Korea)
Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam
In officeAugust 1945 – December 1976
General SecretaryTrường ChinhHồ Chí MinhLê Duẩn (as First Secretary)
Personal details
BornHoàng Ngọc Ân1905 (1905)Quỳnh Lưu, Nghệ An Province, Annam Protectorate, French Indochina
Died18 May 1991(1991-05-18) (aged 85–86)Beijing, China
PartyCommunist Party of Vietnam (expelled in 1979)

Hoàng Văn Hoan (1905 – 18 May 1991)[1] was a Vietnamese politician and diplomat. An early member of the Indochinese Communist Party, he became an ally of Ho Chi Minh during the struggle against French colonial rule. Following independence, he became an important politician in Hồ's communist-controlled Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and served as a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of Vietnam from 1960 to 1976. He was a leading figure of the Party's pro-China wing, and his political fortunes deteriorated in tandem with Sino-Vietnamese relations. Following the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War, he controversially defected to China and spent the rest of his life in exile.

Biography

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Early life and political career

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Hoan was born in Nghệ An Province in 1905.[2] In later years, it was occasionally rumored that he was part of Vietnam's Hoa Chinese minority. However, he denied the accusations and said that he was "100% ethnic Vietnamese."[3]

In the 1920s, he moved to Guangzhou, China, a base for revolutionaries from then-French Indochina. He studied at the Whampoa Military Academy and became an associate of Ho Chi Minh.[4] In 1930, he helped Ho found the Indochinese Communist Party. In 1941, he set up the Viet Minh to fight against French colonial rule.[1] He was a delegate to the 1954 Geneva Conference, which addressed lingering issues from the First Indochina War.[4]

Following independence, he served as Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the North Vietnam (and later all-Vietnam) National Assembly from 1958 to 1979, and was on the Politburo from 1960 to 1976.[citation needed]

Relationship with China

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Hoan was known for his pro-Chinese stance. During the years when North and South Vietnam were divided, he was a crucial link between North Vietnam and the People's Republic of China. He served as North Vietnam's first ambassador to China from 1950 to 1957.[1]

Hoan's influence peaked in the early 1960s when North Vietnam's leadership temporarily aligned with China during the Sino-Soviet dispute. In 1963, as part of this policy shift, Hoan was appointed head of the party's International Liaison Department at the same time that the more pro-Chinese Xuân Thủy became Foreign Minister.

Beginning around 1965, however, as Soviet aid became critical to the war effort, Hanoi began to improve relations with the Soviet Union, leading to increased tensions with Beijing. In this new political atmosphere, the Vietnamese leadership, directed by First Secretary Lê Duẩn, replaced officials who were strongly identified with the previous pro-Chinese policy. Both Xuân Thủy and Hoan were removed from their key foreign policy posts. Despite his diminished role, Hoan was still used for sensitive diplomatic missions due to his personal connections in Beijing. In May 1973, he conducted secret talks in China regarding the Cambodian Civil War. He traveled to China again in 1974, officially for "medical treatment," a trip that coincided with unsuccessful Sino-Vietnamese border negotiations.[5]

His political career effectively ended at the Fourth National Party Congress in December 1976, where he was removed from the Politburo and the Central Committee as the party formalized its pro-Soviet orientation.[6]

Defection and exile

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In early 1979, Vietnam and China fought a brief, but significant, war. Hoan was subjected to political isolation and surveillance.

After the war ended, Hoan defected to China in July 1979. While traveling to East Germany for medical care, he eluded his escorts during a transit stop in Karachi, Pakistan, and sought refuge at the Chinese consulate before flying to Beijing. At a press conference in August 1979, Hoan stated that Vietnam's persecution of its ethnic Chinese minority was "even worse than Hitler's treatment of the Jews" and accused Vietnamese leaders of becoming "subservient to a foreign power," a reference to the Soviet Union.[7] The Vietnamese authorities denounced Hoan as a traitor and sentenced him to death in absentia.[8]

During his exile, Hoan attacked the Vietnamese government and defended China against Vietnamese complaints, such as a November 1979 allegation that China undermined Vietnamese revolutionaries during the revolution against France.[3] He said that North Vietnam enraged China by entering peace talks with the United States in 1968 without consulting Beijing, and even claimed that Lê Duẩn had deceived the ailing Ho Chi Minh about his intentions to negotiate.[9] He also authored a political memoir titled Giọt nước trong biển cả (released in English as A Drop in the Ocean: Hoang Van Hoan's Revolutionary Reminiscences). In his writings, he alleged, without providing evidence, that the CPV's Central Committee had decided in 1982 to increase opium production to raise foreign currency.[10]

In January 1991, Hoan was hospitalized with a lung infection. He died in Beijing on May 18, 1991.[1]

Works

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  • Hoang Van Hoan (1988). A Drop in the Ocean: Hoang Van Hoan's Revolutionary Reminiscences. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. ISBN 9780835122559.
  • — (1989). Selected Works of Hoang Van Hoan. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press. ISBN 9787119006048.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Hoang van Hoan, Vietnam Aide Who Defected to China, Dies at 86". The New York Times. 23 May 1991.
  2. ^ Brigham, Robert K. (2011). "Hoang Van Hoan". In Tucker, Spencer C. (ed.). The encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: a political, social, and military history (2nd ed.). ABC-CLIO. p. 498. ISBN 9781851099610.
  3. ^ a b "Hoang Van Hoan; High Vietnam Official Defected to China in 1979". Los Angeles Times. 1991-05-23. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  4. ^ a b "HOÀNG VĂN HOAN (PHÓNG, THÁI LƯƠNG NAM, 1905–1991)". Université du Québec à Montréal. Retrieved 2025-10-08.
  5. ^ Balázs Szalontai, Hoàng Văn Hoan và vụ thanh trừng sau 1979. BBC Vietnam, April 15, 2010: http://www.bbc.co.uk/vietnamese/vietnam/2010/04/100415_hoangvanhoan.shtml.
  6. ^ Khoo, Nicholas (2010). "Revisiting the Termination of the Sino—Vietnamese Alliance, 1975—1979". European Journal of East Asian Studies. 9 (2): 321–361. ISSN 1568-0584.
  7. ^ "Hanoi's Push: Refugees for recognition?". TIME Magazine. 114 (8): 31–31. 1979-08-20.
  8. ^ Toai, Doan Van (1981). "The Fate of the National Liberation Front". Asian Affairs. 8 (4): 216–226. ISSN 0092-7678.
  9. ^ Garver, John W. (1981). "Sino-Vietnamese Conflict and the Sino-American Rapproachment". Political Science Quarterly. 96 (3): 445–464. doi:10.2307/2150555. ISSN 0032-3195.
  10. ^ "Narco-Terrorism: The Kremlin Connection". www.heritage.org. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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  • Hanoi's Push. Time, Aug. 20, 1979.
  • Indochina: Five Years of Communist Rule[unfit]
  • Beijing and the Vietnam Conflict, 1964–1965
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