A woman cycles past construction barricades featuring Vietnam's national flag and Communist Party of Vietnam's flag, outside a landscape renovation site along the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi on September 28, 2026. Vietnam's leader has made a rare admission of public dissent, acknowledging "different opinions" on a flagship Hanoi development project after more than a quarter of respondents in a consultation did not support it. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)