Trouble brewing in the South China Sea - Decoder

A turf war brewing in Asia's South China Sea risks creating a geopolitical flashpoint as the U.S. and smaller countries seek to check China's rising influence. (July 17, 2012)

Hanoi warns anti-China protesters to stop

Authorities in Vietnam on Thursday threatened to crack down on anti-China protests in Hanoi after a series of unprecedented demonstrations in the capital.

"For those who deliberately disobey, trying to illegally gather causing public disorder... authorities can apply necessary measures," said the notice published in Hanoi Moi, a mouthpiece for the ruling Communist Party.

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U.S. Says S. China Sea Events ‘Troubling’ After Vietnam Meeting

Vietnam navy drills amid China tensions

Vietnam on Monday began live-fire naval drills in the tense South China Sea, a move that analysts see as raising the risk of a “showdown” with Beijing over a deepening territorial rift.

A long-standing dispute between the Communist neighbors over sovereignty of two potentially oil-rich archipelagos has erupted again following recent sea confrontations that have sunk relations to their lowest point in years.

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China Communist Party newspaper cautions Vietnam

A newspaper published by China's ruling Communist Party warned Vietnam on Saturday to show restraint or come out the loser in an escalating squabble over territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Vietnam on Friday announced a live ammunition drill in an apparent response to China's demand that it halt all oil exploration in an area of the South China Sea claimed by both sides.

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Anti-China protests continue in Vietnam

Dozens of Vietnamese protested outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi for the second weekend in a row on Sunday, as a maritime dispute raised tensions between the two communist neighbours.

About 50 people with Vietnamese flags sang patriotic songs and held signs proclaiming Vietnamese sovereignty over two South China Sea archipelagos which are at the centre of a long-running dispute with Beijing.
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Vietnam websites hacked amid China row

 More than 200 Vietnamese websites have been attacked and some defaced with Chinese flags, an Internet security firm said Friday as a maritime dispute raises tensions between the countries.

More than 200 Vietnamese websites have been attacked and some defaced with Chinese flags, an Internet security firm said as a maritime dispute raises tensions between the countries.

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Vietnam-China rift grows

Vietnam announced Friday that it would hold a live-fire naval drill next week in the South China Sea as an escalating maritime dispute fuels tensions with Beijing.

Relations between China and Vietnam are at their worst in years as the two countries trade accusations over recent confrontations between their ships in potentially energy-rich contested waters.
The United States said it was "troubled" by tensions triggered by the maritime border dispute, calling for a "peaceful resolution".

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No 素馨属 in PRC today

Today the internet was blocked in PRC if you searched for the word jasminum
素馨属. The government fears the people's power.

Vietnam's capitalist roaders follow China's trail

Nguyen Duc Tai was on a mission one sweltering January morning in Vietnam's commercial capital, Ho Chi Minh City.
Flush with cash from his annual bonus, he wanted to buy his wife a new mobile phone, a gift for the coming Tet lunar new year holidays. In a county where the average annual income is about $1,100 (£698.70), a good phone is a big investment. Mr. Tai wanted to make the right choice with his 5 million dong ($250).
“It was so confusing. I went to two shops, but no one could give me the full picture of what I could get for my money. They showed me one or two phones. That's not enough. If they could show me 10 at similar prices I could make a decision.
The 35-year-old smelled opportunity. “I said to myself, 'There's something wrong here. I have money. I'm willing to pay. But I cannot find what I want. There is a mistake somewhere and if I can fix that. The customers will support me'.”
Fast-forward six years and Mr. Tai is chief and co-founder of Mobile World, Vietnam's largest cellular phone retailer, part of a new breed of fast-growing companies tapping a swelling middle class in the Communist-run country of nearly 90 million people.
Vietnam has emerged over the past decade from the hangover of war to play a central role on Asia's factory floor, producing everything from footwear to computer parts. An economy once built around carpet-bombed rice paddies now boasts gleaming shopping malls and towering skyscrapers. BMWs and Rolls Royces jostle for space on streets clogged with motor-scooters and bicycle rickshaws.
As northern neighbour and former imperial ruler China begins the transition from sweatshop economy to consumer society, Vietnam hopes to follow. Companies such as Mobile World could lead the way.
But in recent months, Vietnam's problems have overshadowed its promise – from spiralling inflation to a stumbling currency, red tape, a debilitating trade deficit and creaking infrastructure. Policymakers face critical choices in the next few years that could either make Vietnam the world's next emerging-market star or deepen its economic malaise.

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The wrong version of Vietnamese History

Vietnamese medias always say that they defeated China in 1979, wait 1979?
How it's possible that there were battles until the mid 80s???
Here is a video of the Chinese side from 1984.



The truth is that no one won or lost the war.

It was a war started from PRC because CSVN invaded Cambodia to fight against
the Khmer Rouge.
Both sides lost a lot of soldiers, so CSVN don't talking cock.

Socialist Vietnam - the servant and follower of PRC

In the last months people who wrote critical articles about the Peoples Republic of China
were arrested in Vietnam. A lot of journalists got the order not to talkm about China in a
negative way.
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Also read the fear of CSVN about the Chinese Invasion.