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Vietnam-China conflict; Sino-Vietnamese War, territorial disputes
Topic Started: Tue May 6, 2014 5:07 pm (787 Views)
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More than 20 dead as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam

May 15, 2014 12:10pm

HANOI - More than 20 people were killed and rioters attacked Vietnam's biggest steel plant overnight as violent anti-China protests spread to the center of the country a day after arson and looting in the south, a doctor and newspapers said on Thursday.

A doctor at a hospital in central Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed in the rioting, one of the worst breakdowns in Sino-Vietnamese relations since the neighbors fought a brief border war in 1979.

"There were about a hundred people sent to the hospital last night. Many were Chinese. More are being sent to the hospital this morning," the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters by phone.

Hundreds of Chinese had fled Vietnam, either by air or by crossing into neighboring Cambodia, reports said.

Taiwanese media said rioters attacked a huge steel plant in Ha Tinh province owned by Formosa Plastics Group, Taiwan's biggest investor in Vietnam. When completed in 2020, it will be Southeast Asia's largest steel plant and will include a seaport and a 2,150 MW power plant. Local media in Vietnam has said the complex could cost about $20 billion.

The anti-China riots erupted in industrial zones in the south of the country on Tuesday after protests against Beijing placing an oil rig in a part of the South China Sea claimed by Hanoi.

The brunt of the violence has been borne by Taiwanese firms, mistaken by the rioters to be owned by mainland Chinese.

Officials from Formosa Plastics were not immediately available for comment.

Thousands of Vietnamese set fire to foreign factories and rampaged through industrial zones in Binh Duong and Dong Nai provinces on Tuesday, officials said. There were no confirmed reports of any violence later in that area.

Police injured

In Binh Duong alone, police said 460 companies in the province had reported some damage to their plants, local media reported.

"More than 40 policemen were injured while on duty, mainly by bricks and stones thrown by extremists," the state-run Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper said.

About 600 people were arrested for looting and inciting the crowd, the newspaper quoted Vo Thanh Duc, the police chief of Binh Duong province, as saying.

The United States has called on both sides for restraint.

Such disputes "need to be resolved through dialogue, not through intimidation," White House spokesman Jay Carney told a regular briefing. "We again urge dialogue in their resolution."

The US State Department said it was monitoring events in Vietnam closely, and urged restraint from all parties, while adding: "We support the right of individuals to assemble peacefully to protest."

The current crisis erupted within days of a week-long visit to Asia by President Barack Obama in late April in which he pledged that Washington would live up to its obligation to defend its allies in the region. — Reuters

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by Anne de Bretagne at PSCF


Is Vietnam mobilising?

Re-posting comment by John Tee this instant:

"A friend of one of the Viets working in our company got a message today from back home. He had been called up by the Viet army. He was shocked as it was totally unexpected to have to join. China is the reason."

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actually the China-Vietnamese confrontation has a positive effect. a possible economic embargo versus china and the world reacting to china's arrogance

for us now, we have to start building our defenses and fortifications to outmaneuver china

dont trust china. china loves the talk and take strategy as how they invaded mischief reef. only those who dont realized china's backtabbing character will say otherwise as well the china dogs called 'makakaliwa'
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China lashes out at Vietnam after anti-China riots spread

Sutirtho Patranobis, Hindustan Times
Beijing, May 15, 2014

China on Thursday asked Vietnam to look after the safety of its citizens and stop provocative actions after two Chinese nationals were killed and more than 100 were injured in the most violent anti-China protests swept through Vietnam in the past 24 hours.

At least 10 more Chinese nationals remain unaccounted for, the official state news agency, Xinhua said.
Apart from the deaths and injuries, more than 600 Chinese business people and tourists have crossed Vietnamese border into Cambodia to escape anti-China riots in Vietnam, Cambodian National Police spokesperson Kirt Chantharith was quoted in agency reports as saying.

“We point out that the trashing, looting and burning of Chinese companies has everything to do with Vietnamese connivance with anti-China forces and lawbreakers,” Hua Chunying, foreign ministry spokesperson said in Beijing on Thursday.

The attacks on Chinese follow damages inflicted on at least 15 factories in the southern province of Binh Duong amid anger over a Chinese oil rig being moved in disputed waters of the South China Sea near the Paracel Islands claimed by both Vietnam and China.

Read: Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam

Vietnam and China fought a border war in 1979. Ties have normalised since the early 1990s.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the victims were from Taiwan, which China claims as part of the Mainland.

“We have been following relevant reports closely. We are deeply shocked by this report and express our serious concerns. Chinese diplomats in Vietnam are marching days and nights to the scene which is in a remote area and are checking on the relevant situation.

The Chinese foreign ministry is making an emergency appointment with the Vietnamese Ambassador to China and lodged solemn representations,” Hua said.

Besides China, Singapore and Taiwan have called on Vietnam to protect their citizens.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has issued an order for the violence to be brought under control as the country seeks to preserve its status as a home for foreign companies producing clothes, shoes and furniture.

“The protests were held throughout Wednesday. The rioters attacked our four Chinese companies constructing an iron and steel complex invested by China's Taiwan," a Chinese manager in Ha Tinh, which is some 300 km south of Vietnamese capital Hanoi, told Xinhua."

“They broke into our offices, wrecking and looting the properties, and burned our dormitory Among the four Chinese companies there, China 19th Metallurgical Corporation (MCC19) was the most seriously hit."So far, around 10 staff lost contact with us and at least 55 workers were wounded,” an official with MCC19 said.
“The security forces here were far less enough, leaving our workers and the Vietnamese policemen badly attacked before two o'clock this morning,” he added.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Thursday ordered the Ministry of Public Security to ensure security and absolute safety for lives and assets as well as normal operation of all companies, especially foreign invested firms.

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Beijing sends evacuation ships to Vietnam

Associated Press – May 18, 2014

BEIJING (AP) — China on Sunday dispatched five ships to Vietnam to speed up the evacuation of its citizens following deadly anti-Chinese riots over Beijing's deployment of an oil rig in waters claimed by both countries.

The first ship departed Sunday morning from the southern island of Hainan, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. It also said that 16 critically injured Chinese were airlifted from Vietnam early Sunday aboard a chartered medical flight.

More than 3,000 Chinese have already been pulled out from Vietnam following the riots this past week that left two Chinese dead and injured about 100 others, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Vietnam has protested China's positioning of the oil rig in the South China Sea on May 1 and sent ships to confront China's vessels, setting off a tense standoff. After allowing anti-China protests last weekend, Vietnam's authorities quickly clamped down on further demonstrations after the public anger against China boiled over into riots, the most serious to hit Vietnam in years.

Dozens of factories close to southern Ho Chi Minh City were trashed. In central Vietnam, a 1,000-strong mob stormed a steel mill, killing two Chinese workers and wounding hundreds more. Along with the Chinese, hundreds of Taiwanese people have fled the country by land and air.

China's Foreign Ministry said that officials were arranging to bring back the staff of the Chinese building contractor that was stormed by mobs in Ha Tinh province.

Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Saturday ordered a stop to anti-China protests.

In the capital, Hanoi, on Sunday, police pushed away a handful of protesters and journalists in front of the Chinese Embassy, where a rally last weekend drew thousands. Security was also tight in Ho Chi Minh City.

The message appears to represent a shift in government policy regarding the anti-China protests.

Vietnam's ruling Communist Party worries that nationalist and dissident groups, which are also demanding basic democratic reforms, might challenge its grip on power.
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Associated Press writer Chris Brummitt in Hanoi, Vietnam, contributed to this report.

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Chinese Military Said to Be Massing Near the Vietnam Border

Troops, tanks, trucks, artillery, and armored personnel carriers of China’s military were seen heading to the Vietnamese border on May 16 and 17, according to photographs taken by by residents near the border.

Chinese netizens have been posting photographs of the large movement of the People’s Liberation Army, many of them showing Chinese troops in full combat gear heading to the local train station in Chongzuo, along with military vehicles.

One netizen said the Chinese military was taking the train from the Chongzuo station to Pingxiang City, which shares a 60-mile border with Vietnam. The netizen said that the Huu Nghi Border Gate to Vietnam is also now closed.

One of the photos, taken from inside a passenger train, shows the Chinese military preparing artillery for transport on a train track. Others show Chinese troops and military vehicles traveling along dirt roads.

Another photograph shows troops walking under the red-colored entrance to the Longzhou International Building Materials Market, on Provincial Road in the city of Chongzuo.

A reverse image search of each of the photographs using Google indicated that the photographs had appeared on the Internet only recently. Most were indexed by Google on Saturday.

Collectively, the images and eyewitness reports from the ground show what Taiwanese media are calling an “endless stream” of Chinese troops.

One netizen, with the username Zhiyuan0703, echoed a common sentiment on the Chinese social media site, “Conflict between China and Vietnam is imminent.”


Controversial Oil Rig

The troop movement comes amid growing anti-China protests in Vietnam. They began last week after Chinese state-run oil company CNOOC began setting up an oil rig 120 nautical miles from Vietnam in waters near the disputed Paracel islands.

The protests began with close to 100 people in Ho Chi Minh City last Saturday, grew to more than 1,000 people in Hanoi on Sunday, and later grew into riots. The protesters have since burned foreign-owned factories. An estimated 21 people have been killed, including at least one Chinese worker in a Taiwanese steel mill.

China has suspended some plans for a bilateral exchange with Vietnam, details of which were not specified, in response to the riots, according to China’s state-run news service Xinhua.

China has evacuated more than 3,000 of its citizens from Vietnam, and announced Sunday it is sending five ships to help with the evacuations. According to Xinhua, China has issued travel warnings to its citizens traveling to Vietnam.

The report added, citing a Foreign Ministry representative, “China will also consider taking further measures according to the situation’s development.”

China is currently involved in territorial conflicts with nearly all its neighbors. Tensions have been growing particularly intense, however, over China’s claims to disputed territory in the East China Sea and South China Sea.


US Response

Fang Fenghui, the Chinese military’s chief of the general staff, spoke with reporters at the Pentagon on May 15, alongside U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey.

Fang defended China’s oil drilling in disputed waters with Vietnam. He also warned the United States on taking sides, saying through a Chinese translator “there is possibility that these issues could affect or disturb the relationship between the two countries and two militaries.”

White House press secretary Jay Carney reiterated the U.S. stance on China’s oil rig, however, during a May 15 press briefing.

He said China’s oil rig, which the Chinese regime has accompanied with “numerous government vessels” is a “provocative act and it raises tensions in the region, and by raising tensions makes it more difficult to resolve claims over disputed territory in a manner that supports peace and stability in the region.”

Carney said the United States takes no position on the territorial claims, but, “We do take a position on the conduct of the claimants who must resolve their disputes peacefully, without intimidation, without coercion, and in accordance with international law.”

Regarding China’s oil rig and the tensions that have formed around it, Carney said, “We consider that act provocative and we consider it one that undermines the goal that we share, which is a peaceful resolution of these disputes and general stability in the region.”

Additional reporting by Lu Chen

By Joshua Philipp, Epoch Times | May 18, 2014


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Vietnam brings gripe against China to UN

By Matikas Santos
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7:19 pm | Thursday, May 22nd, 2014

MANILA, Philippines —Vietnam has informed the United Nations (UN) about the dangers of China’s deployment of an oil rig and escort ships in Vietnamese maritime zones and will seek possible measures under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

“We are communicating a danger to peace and stability and a violation of international law, including UNCLOS, to all the world, to all countries, to the international community so we have informed UN as well as we have informed ASEAN,” Vietnamese Foreign Deputy Minister Pham Quang Vinh said in a press conference at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Thursday.

Vinh however would not give a clear statement on whether it would file a similar arbitration case as the Philippines has done or file a separate case.

“We are pursuing peaceful settlement of such kind of things and we will continue to do so in accordance with international law including measures under UNCLOS,” Pham said.

“The current situation is a real danger to peace, stability, and maritime security in the area. With the deployment of massive numbers of ships of China, including armed military ships, including airplanes, this situation, if not stopped, then it will be a real danger to maritime security,” he said.

China previously said that it has indisputable sovereignty over the entire South China Sea including the Paracel Islands where it deployed its oil rig escorted by military ships.

Vietnamese coast guard vessels figured in incidents of water cannon firing with Chinese vessels as they tried to stop the oil rig from being deployed.

Philippines is also locked in a maritime dispute with China over the Spratly Islands that are being claimed by China as part of its nine-dash line claim.

Philippines has challenged China’s claim by filing an arbitration case before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS). China has refused to participate in the proceedings.

“We need to work together to have a collective voice in order to have an end to this [situation],” Pham said.

Read more: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/104934/vietnam-brings-gripe-against-china-to-un#ixzz32SdMnwfs

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Vietnam accuses China of sinking fishing boat

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12:39 pm | Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

HANOI, Vietnam— Vietnam and China traded accusations Tuesday over who was the aggressor in an incident that led to the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat in the South China Sea, sharpening already dangerously high tensions between the two nations over their overlapping territorial claims in the waters.

Hanoi accused a Chinese vessel of ramming a smaller Vietnamese boat Monday and then fleeing the scene.
Beijing said the Vietnamese boat rammed into one of its vessels, and then sunk.

The incident occurred around 30 kilometers (18 miles) south-southwest of large oil rig that China deployed on May 1 in a disputed section of the sea.

The rig deployment infuriated Hanoi and set off violent anti-China protests that further soured ties between the neighboring communist countries with close economic relations. Vietnam sent patrol ships to confront the rig, and China has deployed scores of vessels to protect it. The two sides have been involved in a tense standoff, occasionally colliding with each other.

China and Vietnam have long sparred over who owns what in the oil- and gas-rich waters. Incidents between fishing crews are quite common, but Monday’s incident was the first time a Vietnamese boat had been sunk, said Tran Van Linh, president of the Fisheries Association in the central port city of Danang.
“I call this an act of attempted murder because the Chinese sank a Vietnamese fishing boat and then ran away,” Linh said. “We vehemently protest this perverse, brutal and inhumane action by Chinese side.”

Linh said about 40 Chinese steel vessels surrounded a group of smaller, wooden Vietnamese fishing ships on Monday afternoon. He said one then rammed into the Vietnamese ship, tossing 10 fishermen into the water and sinking the boat. The fishermen were picked by the other Vietnamese boats and there were no injuries.
The sunken fishing boat with its equipment and seafood catch was worth $240,000, and the association was demanding compensation, Linh said.

China’s state-owned news agency Xinhua the Vietnamese fishing boat capsized when it was ramming a Chinese fishing boat, adding that “personnel from the Vietnamese boat were rescued in a timely manner.”

Since May 1, Vietnam has accused China of ramming into or firing water cannons at Vietnamese vessels trying to get close to the rig, damaging several boats and injuring fisheries surveillance officers. They have shown video footage of some of the incidents. China accuses Vietnam of doing the same.

China claims nearly all of the South China Sea as its own, bringing it into conflict with the far smaller nations of Vietnam, the Philippines and three others that have rival claims. In recent years it has been more assertive in pressing its claims in the waters and resisting attempts to negotiate.

The United States, which shares the concerns of the smaller claimant states about China’s rising military might, called China’s deployment of the rig “provocative.” Vietnam is trying to rally regional and international support against Beijing, but its options are limited because China is the country’s largest trading partner.

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US military concerned over tension between China, Vietnam

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11:32 am | Friday, May 23rd, 2014

MANILA, Philippines – A ranking United States (US) military official said he has “serious concerns” over the tense situation between Vietnam and China over maritime disputes because of the high risk for miscalculation.

“I have serious concerns, I believe that we should first encourage both parties to exercise restrain,” Admiral Samuel Locklear III, Commander of the US Pacific Command, said in an interview after the World Economic Forum (WEF) session Asia Security Outlook Friday.

“[They should deal with] these types of issues through normal types of [mechanisms] that allow them to use international law or an international platform to determine these particular disputes,” he said.

China has previously deployed an oil rig towards the Paracel Islands off the coast of Vietnam sparking protests by Vietnamese against what they say is an infringement of their Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Chinese manufacturing plants were attacked by Vietnamese prompting China to extend assistance to its citizens and evacuate many of them.

Vietnamese ships tried to prevent the oil rig from getting to its intended location but were prevented by Chinese military escort vessels.

Asked whether the US has plans to establish a strategic partnership with Vietnam, Locklear said that the US is looking for expanding partnerships with Vietnam as well as other countries.

“The US is pursuing alliances and strategic partnerships and [we have a] growing number of partnerships and we look forward to exploring opportunities to expand our partnership with nations such as Vietnam, but Vietnam is among many,” he said.

Philippines and US previously signed the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (Edca) that gives US military forces access to Philippine military bases.

The agreement is widely seen as a deterrent to China’s aggressive maritime claims in the South China Sea including the West Philippine Sea, to which China claims to have indisputable sovereignty.

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CHINA'S BULLYING TACTIC IS CLEARLY SEEN IN THIS OIL RIG DILEMMA WITH VIETNAM

China tells Vietnam: Stop resistance, you are only harming your own interest.

BUT CHINA IS WRONG because VIETNAM IS NOT HARMING ITSELF BUT IS DOING ALL IT CAN TO PROTECT THEIR SOVEREIGNTY AND INTEREST EVEN IT MEANT PUTTING THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY.

China tells Vietnam: Stop your unjustified and illegal disruption and destruction of normal operations.

BUT AGAIN, CHINA IS WRONG here because it was the greedy bully China who unjustly and illegally disrupted peace in the region and has been destroying the region's peaceful environment.

China tells Vietnam: Refrain from further harassment.

AGAIN, CHINA IS WRONG because it is China who is harassing its neighbors since day 1.

China tells Vietnam: Bear in mind the big picture of bilateral relations and regional stability.

AGAIN, CHINA IS WRONG because it is China who destroyed bilateral relations and the regional stability since day 1.

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As you can see now, China loves to commit these abuses and yet this shameless arrogant bully still has the nerve to tell everyone that they are the victim here and that the other parties, Vietnam and the Philippines, caused these troubles.

The world, especially ASEAN plus Japan, Sokor, Australia and the U.S.and other allies must do more to teach this shameless greedy bully a lesson.

First off, pursue the new trade block (TPP), excluding China, and build the new global community w/o China in it.

Remember that the ASEAN or the "Diamond" composed of India, Sokor, Australia and India can outperform China's economy. With ASEAN treated as an economic bloc and factories and investments are relocated from China to ASEAN, the new environment will be much better than this shameless greedy bully China.

Let's use the regional grouping as an edge to stop China's arrogance and bullying.

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China has moved its oil rig to a new site on Wednesday, but it was still completely within Viet Nam

Vietnam said some 40 Chinese boats surrounded one of its ships on Monday before one of them rammed it. All 10 Vietnamese fishermen on board were rescued.

But a commentary which appeared in China’s Xinhua News Agency accused Vietnam of “increasingly aggressive and dangerous acts’ against Chinese oil drilling in Paracels, which China refers to as Xisha islands.

“Such recklessness must stop,” the commentary said, while accusing Vietnamese of making “irresponsible and wild accusations” against China, “which could encourage and embolden Vietnamese activists into undertaking even more aggressive acts.”

The article explained that the incident was a “result of a kamikaze-style attack (by the Vietnamese) as the boat deliberately ran into Chinese waters and collided with one of the vessels protecting the oil rig.”

It added that the “the Chinese side displayed restraint and issued warnings that were ignored by the Vietnamese boat.”

As this developed, Vietnam’s foreign ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh told Vietnam’s state-owned VNS news agency that that China has moved its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 to a new site on Wednesday, but said it was “still completely within Viet Nam’s continental shelf.”

Binh added that the new position of the rig still violated Viet Nam’s sovereign rights and jurisdiction.

Binh was responding to an announcement on Monday by the China Maritime Safety Administration that the rig had been moved from 15 degrees 29 minutes 58 seconds north latitude and 111 degrees 12 minutes 06 seconds east longitude to 15 degrees 33 minutes 38 seconds north latitude and 111 degrees 34 minutes 62 seconds east longitude.

“Viet Nam resolutely opposes the action and requests China to immediately stop the rig’s operation, withdraw it and escort service ships from Viet Nam’s waters, and not repeat such acts,” he said.

“Viet Nam has full legal foundations and historical evidence to assert its undeniable sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago.”

Also on Wednesday, the Vietnamese Consulate Department under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned representatives from the Chinese Embassy in Ha Noi and handed them a diplomatic note protesting against all of China’s recent actions.

Binh said China used force to occupy the Hoang Sa archipelago and its action violated international law.

As of 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, the rig was moved four nautical miles east-northeast at a speed of 4.5 nautical miles per hour.

This was revealed by the deputy head of the Vietnam Fisheries Resources Surveillance Department, Ha Le, at a press conference in Ha Noi.

At 10am, the rig was anchored at a new site, 25 nautical miles east-southeast of Tri Ton Island in Viet Nam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, 23 nautical miles east-northeast of its previous location.

Vietnamese observation vessels have maintained their presence about six nautical miles from the rig.

Two Chinese planes constantly swept over the rig as it was moving.

China also deployed larger and higher capacity vessels operated by military and marine surveillance units. With Xinhua, VNS

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