Chinese government ‘unflustered’ about reaction to it placing vessels in South China Sea
China has sent four more oil rigs into a disputed area of the South China Sea less than two months after it placed a giant drilling platform in waters claimed by Vietnam, ratcheting up regional tensions.
The largely unpopulated Paracel islands are administered by China but claimed by Vietnam, and they have become the flashpoint in an increasingly aggressive territorial row between the two neighbours, ideological allies as fellow communists but with stark divisions.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said the rigs were in waters close toGuangdong province and Hainan island. “There is no need to over interpret the recent deployment of four oil rigs in the South China Sea,” Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing.
China claims 90 per cent of the 3.5-million-square-kilometre South China Sea. ThePhilippines, Malaysia and Brunei claim some of the Spratlys, while China, Taiwan and Vietnam claim the whole chain.
‘Normal activities’
“There is no need to make a fuss about normal activities,” she said, adding the co-ordinates of the rigs can be found on the website of China’s Maritime Safety Administration, which issued details this week about drilling operations of oil rigsNanhai 2, 4, 5 and 9.
The dispute is the most serious threat to relations between the communist rivals since a brief war in 1979 following Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia. They are rapidly becoming the South China Sea equivalent of the equally uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, known as the Senkaku islands in Japan and the Diaoyu islands to the Chinese.
Meanwhile, China is dealing with tensions within its own jurisdiction after Hong Kong democracy activists kicked off an unofficial referendum on universal suffrage in Hong Kong, a move that is sure to anger the Communist leadership in Beijing. The poll is being organised by the Occupy Central protest movement, and organisers hope it will draw up to 300,000 people to strengthen the legitimacy of the group’s demands for a fair and representative election in 2017 that would include opposition democrats.
The online vote began yesterday, but it has been extended by a week after cyber attacks.
Loyalty
Beijing recently issued a policy document urging residents in China’s richest city to be more loyal.
When Britain gave Hong Kong back to China in 1997, the terms included a “two systems-one country” package and a mini-constitution known as the “Basic Law”. This enshrines democratic rights, which irks many in the communist leadership, as reflected within the White Paper published this month.
Voting on a broad level in Hong Kong would be the first example of democracy in mainland China, and is obviously a threat to single-party rule by the Communist Party, which has run China since the 1949 revolution.
6 comments:
Drilled baby drilled till Hanoi got dried out. Hanoi just wanna show off to USA that they can kick the old China out of the Chinese sea like they did it to USA in the 60s.
Goes China goes....! Drills and drills if the Yiekcong didn't like the way Chen's drills in South China Sea,then all Yiekcong can bend over let Chen drills their Caluom=Ka'douy!...Instead,maybe all Yuon feeling good they will stop protest against Chinese drling for BLACK GOLD in the Sea.
I support all Chinese activities on her sea water,Yuon goes ahead crying baby cry!...Sooner or later we'll get our Koh Tral back by any means necessary!
Hey! Kmenhwatt! that is a good encouraging for the old China to drill Hanoi from head to toe. But the Viet cong are brave especially those guys in the picture above with anti China slogan will jump off their fishing boat to blow off China oil rigs by their bullet head.
quote from poster above ''But the Viet cong are brave especially those guys in the picture above with anti China slogan will jump off their fishing boat to blow off China oil rigs by their bullet head.''
until the chinese decide to send a few of their nuclear missile that way [ vietnam ] and they just apologize afterward just like the US did to japan..[ Atomic bomb -- Hiroshima ]the US knew that the Japanese were about to surrender but dropped the bomb anyway to show the world its power .
Communist China is one of the most disliked countries on the globe. China has no honor, decency, ethics nor morals, what-so-ever.
I read of, Mugabe, the Communist China Army and China's blood diamonds.
In other parts of Africa, the Chinese cheat the African people on their wages. Nor, does Communist China respect other countries mining claims in Africa. The Chinese just take them.
China polluted much of their farmland and 40% of their water. Dead pigs come floating down China's rivers. The rivers smell so bad, they make people sick.
Now China is trying to take other countries territories, away from them. No doubt those countries will also become polluted wastelands, just as China is.
China will always remain honorable and civilized and rich to the entire world. Everything the world has now has its root in China: You want proof: Here are just a handful: military inventions, insurance, mathematical concepts, finances, banking, trades, culture, and of course civilization. It is recorded that without the Chinese culture the Vietnamese would just be "savages" naked with tattoos covering themselves. Without the Chinese, there would never be Vietnam as we know it. Even the name Vietnam is of the Chinese language.
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