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Vietnam and China oil clashes intensify
May 27 2011
By Ben Bland in Hanoi and Kathrin Hille in Beijing
Financial Times
Tensions between China and Vietnam escalated over the weekend as each nation accused the other of violating its sovereignty in the oil-rich South China Sea.
PetroVietnam, the state-owned oil and gas monopoly, said on Sunday that China had sabotaged Vietnamese oil exploration vessels, the latest accusation between the countries over the disputed waters.
“When we conduct seismic survey and drilling operations, they [China] have aeroplanes flying over to survey our activities, they harass us with their vessels, and in extreme cases they cut our [exploration] cables,” said Do Van Hau, a senior PetroVietnam official.
The renewed tensions come as Liang Guanglie, the Chinese defence minister, and Robert Gates, his US counterpart, prepare to attend the Shangri-La Dialogue, a high-profile annual Asia defence forum in Singapore next weekend. Mr Liang’s appearance will mark the first time a Chinese defence minister has participated in the meeting.
The Vietnamese harassment claims will put the South China Sea issue back in focus ahead of the regional security meeting, which in recent years has increasingly focused on Chinese maritime behaviour in the disputed waters. South-east Asian countries are concerned about what they perceive to be Beijing’s increasingly assertive behaviour in regional waters.
The rising tensions have also attracted the attention of Washington. Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, angered Beijing last July by insisting that the South China Sea was of strategic importance to the US and offering to act as a mediator.
In addition to China and Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan all claim part or all of the South China Sea, which is believed to contain vast oil and gas reserves and incorporates key trade routes and abundant fish stocks.
On Sunday, PetroVietnam said the Chinese boats that approached one of its vessels on Thursday had deliberately cut an exploration cable, which had been submerged to 30 metres to protect it from oncoming ships.
PetroVietnam is working with a number of large international oil companies, including ExxonMobil and Chevron, to explore and develop oil and gas assets in South China Sea waters claimed by Vietnam. Mr Hau said that this latest incident “will impact on the attitudes of foreign investors”.
Carl Thayer, an expert on the South China Sea at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, said that this latest incident represented an escalation in Chinese aggression toward Vietnam.
“China is brazenly asserting its sovereignty by such actions and it has the preponderance of vessels to enforce this,” he said.
Just before 6am on Thursday, three Chinese patrol ships rushed the Binh Minh 2, a seismic survey ship owned by PetroVietnam, damaging a number of cables, according to Vietnam’s foreign ministry. The oil exploration vessel had detected the Chinese ships approaching on radar about an hour earlier without warning.
The encounter took place 120 nautical miles off the coast of Phu Yen province in south-central Vietnam, in waters that are claimed by both China and Vietnam.
China routinely detains Vietnamese fisherman who are plying their trade in disputed waters but this is the first time in recent years that Chinese patrol boats have clashed with a Vietnamese oil exploration vessel. A Philippines-licensed oil survey ship suffered a similar confrontation with Chinese patrol vessels in March.
The clash comes just a week after China and the Philippines pledged “responsible behaviour” in the disputed areas and repeated their commitment to a peaceful resolution of conflicting territorial claims. During a visit of Liang Guanglie, China’s minister of defence, to Manila last Monday, officials from both governments pledged to avoid unilateral moves which could raise tension.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino said after the visit incidents in disputed areas could trigger a regional arms race, and force the Philippines to strengthen its military capabilities.
Security experts have said that such an arms race is under way already. Several south-east Asian countries are beefing up their air and sea defences – Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand have all acquired or placed orders for frigates, fighter aircraft and submarines.
Neither the foreign ministry nor the defence ministry in China responded to requests for comment.
56 comments:
that's what cambodia experienced with viet/youn thugs stealing islands, etc from cambodia, now viet/you tasted it from china. now they can see how khmer people feel when youn steal from cambodia, you know!
China kills more vietnam please!
EVIDENCE OF POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS AND KILLINGS OF FUNCINPEC LOYALISTS.
LIST OF INSTANCES OF EXTRAJUDICIAL EXECUTIONS during 1997 coup by PM Hun Sen. These people with their name list below were murdered by PM Hun Sen.
• Ho Sok, 45, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Interior and second ranking FUNCINPEC official in the Ministry of Interior.
• 2-3. Gen Chao Sambath, alias Ngov, Deputy-Chief of the Intelligence and Espionage Department, RCAF Supreme Command since 1993
• 4 and 5. Maj. Gen. Ly Seng Hong, Deputy-Chief of Staff, RCAF General Staff (second highest-ranking FUNCINPEC official in the RCAF General
• 6. Colonel Sok Vireak, Chief, Transmission Bureau, Army General Staff. A former KPNLF General Staff officer in charge of military training who joined Nhek Bun Chhay after the Paris Agreements. Status
• 7. Colonel Thlang Chang Sovannarith, Deputy Chief-of-Staff of the Fifth Military Region, RCAF General Staff
• 8. Colonel Hov Sambath, Deputy-chief of Military Training Bureau, RCAF General Staff
• 9. Lietenant Colonel Sao Sophal, 42, an officer of the First Bureau of the RCAF General Staff.
• 10. Navy First Lt. Thach Soeung, aged about 30, an ethnic Khmer from southern Vietnam, stationed at Dang Kaum Navy base on the eastern bank of the Tonle Sap.
• 11 to 14. Seng Phally, Lt. Col. Chao Keang, Chao Tea and Thong Vickika - security officers working under Gen. Chao Sambath.
• Seng Phally, alias Huot Phally, aged 25, single, a gendarme who worked as chief of the security team at the Pipoplok 2 Hotel/Casino
• Lt. Col. Chao Keang, aged about 25. He was an officer in the Research and Intelligence Bureau of Chao Sambath
• Chao Tea, 29, brother of Chao Keang, a security guard at the Regal Hotel/Casino. His body bore a bullet hole in the left side of the chest and in the right side of the stomach. He was also handcuffed and blindfolded
• Thong Vicchika, aged about 27-28, a body-guard of Chao Sambath and a security staff at the Regal Hotel/Casino.
• Dr. Seng Kim Ly, a military medical doctor
• Major Lak Ki, Head of Operations, Research and Intelligence, RCAF High Command
• Four unnamed body-guards of Nhek Bun Chhay were summarily executed after his office-cum-house in Somnang
• Major Lak Ki, Head of Operations, Research and Intelligence, RCAF High Command
• Pheap, a body-guard of Major Lak Ki, in his late twenties
• Dok Rany, 27, an officer and body-guard of Gen. Chao Sambath who worked at the Research and Intelligence Bureau
• Ros Huon, aged 23, Sopheap, aged 25, two alleged members of the Gendarmerie
• Dok Sokhun, alias Michael Senior, a Khmer-Canadian journalist who taught English at ACE Language School in Phnom Penh
• Major Aek Eng (CPP), Head of Administration of Phnom Penh Thmei police station
• At least four, and possibly up to 22 persons described as FUNCINPEC soldiers executed and cremated in Pich Nil on 9, 10 and 11 July 1997 by Military Region 3 soldiers. Status: Confirmed executions in at least 4 cases
• 34 to 36 (and possibly 45). On 17 July, at about noon time, the body of a soldier was witnessed floating near the bank of the Tone Bassac near the Watt Chum Leap, in the village of the same name, Rokakpong commune, Saang district, Kandal province. The body was headless and both hands were tied up behind the back with a kramma. It was dressed in dark olive military uniform
• 37 and 38. Two unidentified men, blindfolded and with their hands tied behind the back. Status: Confirmed executions
• Pheap, aged 33, a bodyguard of the First Prime Minister. Status: Confirmed execution.
• Sok Vanthorn, 21 and Sou Sal, two villagers from Ampeov village, Kompong Speu province. Status: Confirmed execution.
• Brig. Gen. Chea Rittichutt, a founding member of the Moulinaka movement and the Governor of Kep-Bokor
• Navy officer Meas Sarou, Deputy-director, First Bureau, Navy, based in Chrouy Changvar, and one of his body-guards, and a third person, a woman named Luch.
• Ung Sim, Second Deputy Governor, Kompong Speu province - missing since his arrest, reportedly near Pich Nil by CPP soldiers on 7 or 8 July 1997.
• Col. Sam Sarath, Deputy Chief-of-Staff, Third Military Region
• Put Som Ang, male, aged 42, a KNP activisit in Siem Reap province, and Sam Sophan, 38, an activist in Takeo province
• Major So Lay Sak and Major Chin Vannak, officers working in the Logisitics department of the RCAF General Staff
• Som Taing, Deputy Chief, Inspection Office, Provincial Governor's Office, Kompong Speu
• Chum Sarith, Chief, Criminal Bureau, Provincial Police, Sihanoukville
Forty-six bodies were brought in and dumped at the crematorium of a Phnom Penh pagoda between 5 and 9 July
In the case of Ho Sok (executed on 7 July, brought to Watt Lanka on 8 July); of Seng Phally, Chao Keang, Chao Tea and Thong Viccheka (executed on 5-6 July and brought by the police to Wat Unalom on the morning of 7 July - see cases number 13-16 above) and in the case of a fifth corpse which was brought to the same pagoda on the same morning, but which could not be identified, the police ordered that cremation of the bodies be conducted without question and without proper cremation permit.
Between 9 and 11 July, according to a variety of reliable corroborating accounts, the bodies of 4 and probably up to 22 soldiers were alleged to have been executed in Pich Nil and burned
Plus many and many more names with lose count that order and executed by Hun Sen and CPP.
You called that agression? Should see what the Vietnamese has been doing to and in Cambodia! Koh Tral became Phu Quc just like that- a blink of an eye. If China attack Vietnames, Cambodian will not be hesitate to give Chinese some help to get Koh Tral back, and perhap to liberate Khmer Kompuchea Krom as well.
you xmer fools just fucking bite everyone, you fuck china, us you fuck anyone. you xmer idiots must look your leaders fucking leaders do anything for people, but not themself
Vietnam think that vietnam can do to china like vietnam invade cambodia.
Vietnam is thinking that it is super power country
China war with Vietnam last 30 years ago but China lost face because China can't defead Vietnam small country with no weapons.
Shame on China! Paper tiger only is China today!
Can China invade Vietcong, and retake the land back from them. I can't wait to see China invade Vietcong again please do it I realy hates Viet thieves to dead.
china destroy vietcong cheersss
I know China can build their own boats, where does the viet stole those two boats from, probably from Cambodia.
Don't worry Vietnam,Nambodia will help you .
These peoples' ignorance still amuses me when they're hastily and disproportionately overreacted to the situation. Unfortunately, the incident was a mere misunderstanding.
Pi Anh
Pi Anh is a CPP Yuon crook and thief coming from Communist Hanoi and was fake Khmer Rouges army who could speak Khmer, lying the world that he helped pushed Pol Pot out of the Cambodia, but he is Yuon who killed millions of innocent Khmer peoples
This incident once again proves how important Camboda is for China and vce versa.
Long live China-Cambodia friendship.
7:36 PM
The opposition supporters are the enemy of their own people--not the government or anybody else. Anyone they dislike becomes their enemy, sadly. Paradoxically, they have called and labeled the government in the most uncommon adjectives used by Shame Racy's supporters. THIS IS A SHAMEFUL ACT BY THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT GROUP.
Pi Anh
Its good to see vietcong being chase and kicking from China..
China should used submarine to swallow these viet'canoe..
Pi Anh,
Why don’t you crawl back into your shithole and stay in there, because your breath stings. You have eaten too much Hun Sen’s shit.
Pi Anh,
A YUON,
Cambodians need China,
Cambodians are friend of China,
if China kick Yuons ass,
us we laugh..
7:51 PM
It's the other around, you have been murdering the oppositions since 1997.
You have blood on your hand. You are real criminal crook and supporter of criminal crooks too. Like attract like.
According to millitary force,
Vietnam is 50 times strongger than Cambodia but
she is 1000000 time weaker than China.
8:31 PM
Don't mind me, girl! I'm here to attentively listen and meticulously observe and survey your actions and behaviors, which could be detrimental to Cambodia, because if I find one of you who's responsible for destabilizing and undermining the country, I will put you on the CIA or FBI file, so I know who's the responsible "lone wolf" terrorist (s)when I file the report to the US intelligence community. Just remember that, and remember that Pi Anh told you.
Pi Anh
8:57 PM
Aren't you the terrorist who has blood on your hand by murdering members of the Cambodian oppositions since 1997.
You are on the CIA and FBI watch list including your whole family including your grandchildren too.
Khmer shouldnt worry about China and Viet communy fighting. let them duke it out. we going to watch and fixed ours own shit.
Khmer shuld kick VC out of Cambodia. if China go to war with Vietnam and then we going to see alot of VC refugee across into Khmer boarder. Same shit
We, Cambodian people and their government,fully supporting the government of republic of China for teaching the Viet thief a lesson.
An eye for an eye is the only way this Yourn thievery government understand.
Please, help, help !!!
Pi Anh will put all of us
into the file of FBI and/or CIA.
I am so afraid,
I will not sleep,
I will not eat
Help..
Viet won the war against China last time, but not this time...
8:57 PM (Pi Anh) is a crazy idiot who loves poop from Yuon master and licks Hun Sen's shacky balls. He is very evil in hell.
Viet won the war against US last time, but not this time...
Actually, i would luv to see US kick vietnam in the head once more time...
The cold war is gone. No more Soviet, China, North Korea and Khmer Rouge of Cambodia to support Vietnam, the war with US is over within 24hrs.
10:29 PM
I DO NOT believe the UN and US are prepared to squander additional billions of dollars for another UN-established democracy (rather than homegrown)to have people like you and others to destabilize the nation (and regional neighbors). Then again, your resume does not look good when the FBI and CIA decides to have you on their radar. That said, yes, you should have every reason to be scared.
Pi Anh
I hope U.S will one day wipe out China and vietnam altogether .I hate those two.
As Khmer I prefer China to underteller the 2nd lesson to Hanoi ,after 17.02 – 16. 03.1979 again. If it will be come, then Cambodia can escape from Viet annexation. Fast the whole Cambodia take by Viet now but it is not enough for them, now they from China. So, China must cut the head of this snap. Because it will be very dangeruos for Asian nation near be the future.
Pi Anh,
your name is really youn Name, not Khmer or Chinese at all.
Ah Khmer-Yuon and Khmer-refugees just don't get it.
Pi Anh
12:00 AM
The last Vietnam war was bad karma by the Viet. There are still more to come for their bad karma.
You have to be joking to think the US can win a war against China. If both do not use nuclear weapons, US is no match for China. If both use nuclear weapons, it's going to be a draw or all destroy.
A lot of Chinese submarines are stealth which can not be detected by the US submarines.
China can destroy most of US aircraft carriers with a push of button.
US superiors jet fighters can get lost in the sky once the Chinese shoot down those orbiting spy and navigational satellites.
Not to mention China is the main creditor to the US and China is the one that is keeping the US dollar currency afloat.
12:00 AM,
Please don't dream so much from US. Buddha said that before God help you you must help yourself first, so it means Khmer help for themself first before USA help you. For instance, the poeple of Libya help themself first before the USA and Nato help them, the is the best example for people with homor. And Khmer? The Vietnam take their day by day but what can do? CRYING, WITHDRAWING and Pray for Buddha's help. Is that really Khmers???
Don't mess with China and Cambodia you stupid Viet congs. China and Cambodia are brothers.
China is the most stupid country on the planet.Why does she waste money on Cambodia ,a country already becoming a Youn's colony.Millions of yuon are in Cambodia right now, and sooner they will take over ,and will spell the end of the kingdom of wonder.
If war erupt between China and YUON, U.S will be on yuon's side for sure.
To 12:46AM,
You must be out of your mind to think that China can destroy U.S carriers in a single touch of a button.What drug are you using dude?.Wait and see, may be sooner than expect, the Spring revolution will spread into China, and in fact,it already started.The whole world will be enjoy watching all hell beak loose there.
The 5 communists are China,North Korea,Vietnam,Lao,and Cuba.
The Cambodia has been changed a neutral fake kingdom of Cambodia
Sihanouk(1954-1970 leaned to China,
North Korea,and North Vietnam),
Republic of Cambodia(Lon Nol era
1970-1975),Kampuchea Democratic Pol
Pot,Khmer Rouge 1975-1979,Sihanouk
jailed in his own palace 1976,).
Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979;
Heng Samrin became a fake leader of
Kampuchea Republic and later Hun Sen becomes fake prime minister of
phony neutral kingdom of Cambodia.
Khmer Rouge became a close friend
to China in 1975-79 and lost to
Vietnam in 1979 and up to 2011.
So,China was a paper tiger at that
time,but now can China defeat Yuon?
Cambodia is a beautiful girl that
China and Vietnam want to get married.
If the Vietnam and China clashes
because of oil in China sea,Hun Sen
will lose his seat as PM in Cambodia.
4:37 AM
I don't talk fiction like other people, I know my sources to support my claim, just check the websites below.
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/5027/df21cirbmtel20091s.jpg
http://www.china-mike.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/china-anti-ship-missile-sizzler.jpg
http://warisboring.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/df-21-tel-1s.jpg
"China is deploying a new anti-ship ballistic missile that can sink U.S. aircraft carriers. Four-star Admiral Robert F. Willard, commander of the U.S. Pacific Command, says that the capability should be viewed in “combination (with China’s) integrated air-defense systems; advanced naval systems, such as the submarine; advanced ballistic-missile systems, such as the anti-ship ballistic missile, as well as power-projection systems into the region.”
[ The Washington Times “China has carrier-killer missile, U.S. admiral says” Dec 27, 2010 ]"
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ej5kQwZWlzM/TRYQuqh11SI/AAAAAAAABW4/sDZKWSyzIoI/s1600/Chinese_DF-21C_+Anti-ship_Ballistic_Missile_.jpg
http://bearcreekledger.com/2007/11/10/stealth-chinese-sub-undetected-by-us-battle-fleet-on-exercise/
Hun Sen is traitor.
Hun Mana is a youn bitch.
Hun Mani is youn son.
Hun Manet is traitor and coward toward Vietnam and Thai. He is Youn son.
All Hun families and relatives are traitors and sell out Cambodia to Vietnam very very cheap price.
Hun To rapes alot of khmers under age girls and killed them after he rapes. He creates criminal network in Cambodia. He sells drug to Cambodia children. He is youn.
All Hun sen families and relatives are criminal involve in kill Cambodian people their hands full of cambodian blood.
Pi Anh,
Fact, the Chinese were in the South Chinese Sea even before the Vietnamese were born. In fact it is called the CHINESE SEA. So what does that mean? It means that body of waters belong to the Chinese, and hence China. The Vietnamese have been insolent to the Chinese for a very long time and it is time for the Chinese to teach these little Viet pests some manners. It is not the first time anyway. The Chinese had taught the Vietnamese about some manners in the past, the recent past, and maybe in the future. Didn't Chinese tell the world that they reserved the right to teach the Vietnamese a second lesson in the future. Maybe that second lesson is NOW. Lol.
I'm very happy to see China fight the Youn Aggressor and retake Cambodia territory back to Cambodia. But, I still don't like China because China is part of Khmer Rouge murder and China helps Khmer Rouge, Sihanouk, and now Hun Sen to kill Khmer people. If China is a good friend of Cambodia, China should kill or kick Ah Hun Sen out of power.
Then Khmer people will love China.
Ah Pi Anh,
Your current master, Hun Sen, will be executed by bullets into his head one day like Sadam Hun Sen of Eraq. Nonething is lasting long in this 21st century. Go and study past and present history. Do you understand Ah Youn Hanoi Vietcong and Vietminh. Khmer people will cut all Ah Youn Vietcong's throats again when we liberate our country from your thieves of Khmer land.
Khmer oversea
Yes, China did teach the Vietnamese a lesson in the late 70th, but Chinese have paid a heavy price for it.In about 3 weeks ,all the Chinese soldiers were pull back to where they belong.And thousand upon thousand of its troupe were slaughtered at the hand of the Vietnamese.China is a tiger paper ,and the Vietnamese are combat hardened experience.The only way to defeat yuon is NUKE.Just nuke the fuck out of them for khmer to be free.
Hi friends
Welcome to China encroaching Wietnam.
We are to happy to see that China eat Wietnam, China not only oil but you kill all Vietnamese living in this world.
Hey, Vietnam, this is your turn to get your retribution cos you pressure on Khmer and killed them now you receive your bad kamma, we are pleased with seeing China grabing land and oil of Vietnam.
YUON, don't be regret.
Chao Maha
9:31 AM
Completely agree with you.
congratulateion Ah Kong ah Ma destroy the youn thugs away from our land.
chinese canadian
STUPID - STUPID - STUPID - STUPID - STUPID
What a stupid idiot! 真是白痴一个
You bastard! 你这杂种！
Drop dead. 去死吧！
You have a lot of nerve
YOU ... "STONE SOUP BOWL" !!!! ...YOU..."STONE SOUP BOWL" !!!!
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"China Fuckers"
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jayczacz@yahoo.com
Chinese communist government is bad. We should let the world see this... so the world knows how the Chinese regime treats its people. There is no human right at all in China. We should boycott - china - This is what I would do
I've never seen such animosity in my life.
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