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| An aerial photo shows Thitu Island, part of the disputed Spratly group of islands, in the South China Sea in 2011. China said it summoned Vietnam's ambassador Thursday and strongly protested a law adopted by the Vietnamese parliament that places the disputed Spratly and Paracel islands under Hanoi's sovereignty |
06/21/2012
AFP
China said it summoned Vietnam's ambassador Thursday and strongly protested a law adopted by the Vietnamese parliament that places the disputed Spratly and Paracel islands under Hanoi's sovereignty.
China and Vietnam, as well as other neighbouring nations, are locked in long-standing territorial disputes over the South China Sea, including the mineral-rich Spratly and Paracel islands.
"The... actions by the Vietnamese side are illegal and invalid. China expresses its strong protest and firm opposition," foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters.
"The Vietnamese unilateral actions ... complicate and magnify the issue. China will resolutely safeguard territorial sovereignty."
Hong said Vietnam's ambassador to China Nguyen Van Tho was summoned to the foreign ministry Thursday and told of Beijing's displeasure.
According to Vietnamese parliamentarian Duong Trung Quoc, the legislation is a first for Hanoi on what it calls the East Sea.
"The adoption of this law on the sea today is very important for Vietnam," he told AFP.
"It helps solidify both how Vietnam will implement its sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly Islands and its international commitments."
Tensions in the South China Sea have risen sharply recently, with China and the Philippines locked in a maritime dispute over Scarborough Shoal, a reef off the Philippine coast.
But tensions eased when the Philippines ordered two of its ships to withdraw from the shoal last week, a move that was welcomed by China.
The disputed region is a key trading route for the US, which has expressed concern over sporadic flare-ups between countries.
Taiwan, Vietnam, Brunei, China, Malaysia, and the Philippines all claim parts of the South China Sea.
China also announced Thursday it had elevated the administrative status of the Nansha (Spratly) and Xisha (Paracel) islands from a county to a prefectural-level district, the civil affairs ministry said in a statement.
It was not immediately clear what the new status would mean for the islands, which boasted a total population of just over 500 people according to China's census in 2000.
6 comments:
How about Ah kantorb give back to Cambodia Koh Trol and Koh Kracaulh Sess first then this hypocrite Vietnam can complain about something that would bring it the self destruction.
GIve what back? Shit back?? Want some, lol
I hope China will hit ah Kantorp so hard that it will remember for another thousand years. or better, I hope China split a kantorp country into two states, North and South and gave Kampuchea Krom back to Cambodia.
China needs to flex its muscles and start hitting the little Viet scums on the heads for trying to steal the Chinese ancestral islands. Those islands were founded by the Chinese, for the Chinese, and of the Chinese. The Viet scums have no right whatsoever to try to steal them islands from the Chinese. Let the Vietnamese passed their stupid laws and sh*t, but when they come near those Chinese islands, the Chinese owners will simply arrest them Vietnamese asses and send them all back buttnaked back to their sh*tholes in Hanoi.
ah Kantorp will finish very quick one British analyst said if war broke out and I agree.
these are chinese islands, not viet's. we know the viet/youn stole islands and territories from cambodia. take cambodia's koh tral island for example. khmer koh tral island is only 15 km distance from mainland cambodia compare to its distance to youn country. so, try to argue this with china. these are chinese islands, not youn, really! it is ignorant and politics for any country to support viet/youn in this claim, i hope chinese will torpedo youn to ashes if they want war with china. now the world can see how cambodia feel about youn stealing islands, territories, etc from cambodia, you know. youn think they can just pick on cambodia due to their size and population, if they argue like that with cambodia, then i say china could do anything with those youn thugs for picking on cambodia, i think. what goes around comes around eventually, really! koh tral island is forever cambodia's, not youn's, ok!
if youn want code of conduct for these islands, cambodia want code of conduct for koh tral island, too, ok! what give youn the right to steal koh tral island from cambodia? the answer lie in these south china sea islands that youn wanted to steal from china, too. shame on youn thugs!
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