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| 1989, Aug |
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| The 7th Central Committee meeting was held late in the month. In the face of democracy movements throughout the Communist world and China's crushing of demonstrators (June 3–4) in Tiananmen Square, Nguyên Van Linh, secretary-general of the Vietnamese Communist Party, continued to take a comparatively hard line, dismissing the idea of a multiparty state or a move toward democratic reform in Vietnam. He denounced the democracy movements elsewhere as counterrevolutionary. He wished to avoid the economic disorder that student demonstrators in China and elsewhere had caused. | 1 |
| Still seriously afflicted with economic problems at home and faced with international censure for its continued occupation of Cambodia (“Vietnam's Vietnam”), the Linh regime began to move toward a political resolution of the Cambodia situation. In September, after nearly 11 years of involvement, the last Vietnamese troops were withdrawn from Cambodia. | 2 |
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| 1990 |
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| The national census listed a population of 66.2 million. | 3 |
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| April 1 |
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| A purge of politburo member Tran Xuan Bach was announced; he had called for more rapid political reforms in the manner of Eastern Europe and the USSR. | 4 |
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| Sept. 20 |
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| Vo Nguyên Giap, deputy prime minister, visited the People's Republic of China to attend the Asian Games and received a warm welcome. | 5 |
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| Sept. 30 |
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| The U.S. and Vietnam were observed to be moving toward the resumption of diplomatic ties. | 6 |
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