“on 1 July 2026, the Ministry of Public Security initiated criminal proceedings […] against 07 suspects”
Vietnam filed 3,500 pages with the US Trade Representative and announced the HiAnime prosecution on the same day. The site had already closed in March. Copyright enforcement here is a bargaining position in a tariff fight, not a principle anyone discovered. Hollywood gets its arrests, Vietnam asks to come off the Priority Foreign Country list, and the timing tells you which of those came first.