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Showing posts with label Sino-Vietnamese relationship. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007
The defrosting of the Sino-Vietnamese relationships
October 03, 2007
From Guns to Greetings: Defrosting China's Borders
From Guns to Greetings: Defrosting China's Borders
Tension has also eased at the Sino-Vietnamese border. In the Friendship Pass area, in China's southwestern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Chinese border troops have just finished clearing landmines left from confrontations in the late 1970s.
Vietnam and China normalized relations in 1990, and in 2002, the two countries agreed to settle demarcation of the border by 2008. The troops have been ordered to step up mine clearances.
In two campaigns from 1992 to 1994 and from 1997 to 1999, Chinese troops cleared more than 6,800 mines from 130,000 square kilometers along the Friendship Pass.
"You face death every day," says Wei Lianhai, who has done the job for almost 10 years.
In June 1998, Wei and his comrades were setting up detonation devices in a minefield, and one soldier was so nervous he pulled a fuse before the order was given. They had to evacuate immediately, but one was trapped in vines on the ground. They managed to pull him free and run to safety before the mine went off.
When they cleared the last landmine on July 5, making the Friendship Pass zone a mine-free area, everybody roared with relief.
They had reason to rejoice, as they had smoothed the way for the two countries to develop tourism, trade and regional integration.
China has been the largest trade partner of Vietnam for two years running, with trade hitting almost 10 billion U.S. dollars in 2006, up 21.4 percent from 2005.
Leaders of the two countries have set a target of 15 billion U.S. dollars by 2010.
In addition, they have pledged to accelerate the establishment of sub-regional economic areas, including the China-ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) free trade zone and trade corridors along the Mekong River, which originates in China, runs through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and empties into the South China Sea.
"A peaceful border is part of any promising relationship between two armies and two countries, and provides opportunities for increasing mutual respect and trust," says Jiang Yi, the CASS research fellow.
Source: Xinhua
Vietnam and China normalized relations in 1990, and in 2002, the two countries agreed to settle demarcation of the border by 2008. The troops have been ordered to step up mine clearances.
In two campaigns from 1992 to 1994 and from 1997 to 1999, Chinese troops cleared more than 6,800 mines from 130,000 square kilometers along the Friendship Pass.
"You face death every day," says Wei Lianhai, who has done the job for almost 10 years.
In June 1998, Wei and his comrades were setting up detonation devices in a minefield, and one soldier was so nervous he pulled a fuse before the order was given. They had to evacuate immediately, but one was trapped in vines on the ground. They managed to pull him free and run to safety before the mine went off.
When they cleared the last landmine on July 5, making the Friendship Pass zone a mine-free area, everybody roared with relief.
They had reason to rejoice, as they had smoothed the way for the two countries to develop tourism, trade and regional integration.
China has been the largest trade partner of Vietnam for two years running, with trade hitting almost 10 billion U.S. dollars in 2006, up 21.4 percent from 2005.
Leaders of the two countries have set a target of 15 billion U.S. dollars by 2010.
In addition, they have pledged to accelerate the establishment of sub-regional economic areas, including the China-ASEAN (the Association of Southeast Asian Nations) free trade zone and trade corridors along the Mekong River, which originates in China, runs through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam and empties into the South China Sea.
"A peaceful border is part of any promising relationship between two armies and two countries, and provides opportunities for increasing mutual respect and trust," says Jiang Yi, the CASS research fellow.
Source: Xinhua
Friday, May 11, 2007
VN wants to be on China's good side; Developement of Beijing-Hanoi-Vientiane-Phnom Penh axis to come next?
May 11, 2007
Vietnam wants to foster friendly, cooperative ties with China
Vietnam supports initiatives and wishes of the two sides on various spheres, including the development of the "two economic corridors and one economic belt," key roads and railways, joint border economic zones and border committees; Vietnam's participation in the upcoming China-ASEAN trade fair; and completion of border demarcation, Dung said while meeting with visiting Liu Qibao, secretary of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China.
"We support the construction and development of the 'economic corridors and one economic belt,' and we are ready to cooperate with China in researching and calculating their possible expansion to 'one axis and two wings,'" the Vietnamese prime minister said, stating that the corridors and the belt are beneficial to China, Vietnam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Earlier, Liu said the corridors and the Beibu Gulf economic belt, which involves China's southern areas and Vietnam's northern and central ones, are a starting point of one economic axis running from Nanning, capital of Guangxi, to Singapore, and two wings that include the Greater Mekong Sub-region and the Beibu Gulf.
Dung said the key to success of the corridors and the belt is the construction and improvement of highways running from Vietnam's Hanoi capital to northern Lang Son province bordering China, and from Hanoi to northern Hai Phong city and northern Quang Ninh province also bordering the country; and the development of rail routes.
Liu said that China wants Vietnam to develop the rail route from Hanoi to Lang Son and another from southern Ho Chi Minh City to Cambodia's Phnom Penh capital, and that China will offer Vietnam loans for the development of the two rail routes.
The Vietnamese prime minister said his country supports the establishment of border economic zones in border areas of Vietnam and China, especially ones in Lang Son and Guangxi.
Vietnam will send hundreds of enterprises to Nanning to participate in the upcoming 4th China-ASEAN trade fair slated for late October, Dung said, noting that he attended the two previous events.
"The organization of the annual China-ASEAN trade fair is very practical to the development of a China-ASEAN free trade area. It is beneficial to China in general, Guangxi in particular, and Vietnam," Dung stated.
He said Vietnam will promote the formation of joint border working committees which will help boost trade and economy in border areas as suggested by Liu.
Vietnam also wants to see the process of demarcating sea and land borders and planting of border marks going smoothly as scheduled, Dung said, adding that Vietnam would like to join hands with China as well as relevant countries in finely settling outstanding issues relating to the South China Sea.
Source: Xinhua
Vietnam wants to foster friendly, cooperative ties with China
"China wants Vietnam to develop the rail route from Hanoi to Lang Son and another from southern Ho Chi Minh City to Cambodia's Phnom Penh capital, and that China will offer Vietnam loans for the development of the two rail routes."Vietnam's party, state and people always want to expand and deepen friendly neighborly and multifaceted cooperative relations with China in general, and with the Guangxi Autonomous Region in particular, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stated here Thursday.
Vietnam supports initiatives and wishes of the two sides on various spheres, including the development of the "two economic corridors and one economic belt," key roads and railways, joint border economic zones and border committees; Vietnam's participation in the upcoming China-ASEAN trade fair; and completion of border demarcation, Dung said while meeting with visiting Liu Qibao, secretary of the Guangxi Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China.
"We support the construction and development of the 'economic corridors and one economic belt,' and we are ready to cooperate with China in researching and calculating their possible expansion to 'one axis and two wings,'" the Vietnamese prime minister said, stating that the corridors and the belt are beneficial to China, Vietnam and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
Earlier, Liu said the corridors and the Beibu Gulf economic belt, which involves China's southern areas and Vietnam's northern and central ones, are a starting point of one economic axis running from Nanning, capital of Guangxi, to Singapore, and two wings that include the Greater Mekong Sub-region and the Beibu Gulf.
Dung said the key to success of the corridors and the belt is the construction and improvement of highways running from Vietnam's Hanoi capital to northern Lang Son province bordering China, and from Hanoi to northern Hai Phong city and northern Quang Ninh province also bordering the country; and the development of rail routes.
Liu said that China wants Vietnam to develop the rail route from Hanoi to Lang Son and another from southern Ho Chi Minh City to Cambodia's Phnom Penh capital, and that China will offer Vietnam loans for the development of the two rail routes.
The Vietnamese prime minister said his country supports the establishment of border economic zones in border areas of Vietnam and China, especially ones in Lang Son and Guangxi.
Vietnam will send hundreds of enterprises to Nanning to participate in the upcoming 4th China-ASEAN trade fair slated for late October, Dung said, noting that he attended the two previous events.
"The organization of the annual China-ASEAN trade fair is very practical to the development of a China-ASEAN free trade area. It is beneficial to China in general, Guangxi in particular, and Vietnam," Dung stated.
He said Vietnam will promote the formation of joint border working committees which will help boost trade and economy in border areas as suggested by Liu.
Vietnam also wants to see the process of demarcating sea and land borders and planting of border marks going smoothly as scheduled, Dung said, adding that Vietnam would like to join hands with China as well as relevant countries in finely settling outstanding issues relating to the South China Sea.
Source: Xinhua
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