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Over 3000 Chinese Evacuated (By Boat & Plane) As Vietnam's Anti-China Riots Escalate; Taiwan Also On "High Alert"
China began evacuating hundreds of its nationals from Vietnam (via at least 2 planes and 5 ships) as the anti-China protests have become increasingly deadly following Beijing's attempt to deploy an oil drill in Vietnamese dispuited waters (detailed here, here, here, and here)...
- *CHINA SENDING 5 SHIPS TO VIETNAM TO EVACUATE CHINESE: XINHUA
- *HUNDREDS OF VIETNAMESE SECURITY IN CENTRAL HO CHI MINH CITY
- *VIETNAM PRIME MINISTER ISSUES DIRECTIVE TO PREVENT PROTESTS
- *VIETNAM GOVT TAKES ACTION TO PREVENT RIOTS: BINH
Hundreds of police and security forces are in central Ho Chi Minh city and the Chinese consulate is under heavy guard. Tensions across the ASEAN region are growung as Taiwan is on "high alert" but the bloc’s inability to craft a united response to Chinese aggression signals a further decline in its regional clout.
Anti-China protests in #Vietnam: ST reader Ben Beo was at the scene last night & took this pix http://t.co/hIVx5U1P0R pic.twitter.com/cKHl031ilF
— ST Foreign Desk (@STForeignDesk) May 14, 2014
The Vietnamese government has called for an end to the protests...
Vietnam's prime minister appealed for calm last night ahead of expected anti-China demonstrations in Ho Chi Minh City today.
A text message from Nguyen Tan Dung was sent to every cellphone in the country urging citizens not to "commit violations of the law" in defence of the "sovereignty of the sacred fatherland".
His office also ordered the police and local leaders to halt further illegal demonstrations. His plea came after China's deployment of an oil rig in the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea unleashed a wave of deadly protests.
But the Chinese are clearly not leaving anything to chance... (Via PTI)
More than 3,000 Chinese nationals have been evacuated so far from Vietnam after the recent deadly violence, China's Foreign Ministry said today.
They returned to China with the assistance of Chinese Embassy to Vietnam, the Foreign Ministry said in a press release.
China says two of its nationals were killed in the violence and more than 100 others injured while the official death toll was put at 21.
Via 2 Planes...
China S Airlines on Sun will arrange two Airbus A320 fly btw to Vinh City - Guangzhou to transport about 300 Chinese nationals back to China
— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) May 17, 2014
and 5 ships...
China is to send five ships to Vietnam today to evacuate Chinese nationals after protests against Chinese in the country last week, the official Xinhua News Agency reports in a one-paragraph report, citing the Ministry of Transport
The official death toll is unclear...
- *VIETNAM CONFIRMS 2 CHINESES DIE IN RIOT, ABOUT 140 INJURED
The tension is spreading across the ASEAN region...
*TAIWAN ON HIGH ALERT OVER PROTESTS IN VIETNAM TODAY
And the lackluster response from ASEAN is extremely serious... (via The Diplomat)
As Vietnamese and Chinese ships jostled and fired water cannons at each other – the best ASEAN could do was issue another summit statement urging restraint and expressing “serious concern,” timidly avoiding any mention of China.
Furious protesters have trashed 15 Chinese factories in Vietnam, forcing Chinese investors and tourists to flee across the border and into the safety of Cambodia. Golfers in Danang reported fighter jets overhead, heading out to sea.
Observers said it was the first time Vietnam had allowed the state-run press to freely cover the protests, which the government also allowed to proceed. However, Singapore-based Channel News Asia was taken off the air after flagging a report on the protests.
At least 200 people have been arrested and the Vietnamese government has pledged to crack down on hooliganism.
“It is clear that China’s new assertiveness is triggering anxieties among its neighbors,” said Ernest Bower, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
ASEAN has long been ridiculed as a toothless tiger and its behavior amid the current standoff between China and Vietnam – perhaps the greatest challenge to face the group – only reinforces the claims.
If ASEAN genuinely wants to be taken seriously, now might be an appropriate time for a united public front on China’s territorial ambitions in the seas that divide the bloc’s 10 nations. If it is unable to do that, then individual member states face the daunting task of dealing with Beijing on their own, further relegating ASEAN to the political sidelines and undermining its diplomatic credentials.
The bloc’s inability to craft a united response to Chinese aggression signals a further decline in its regional clout.
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Thats true. But the good thing is ig this shit continues the mob will tear them out of their houses and throw'em half alive into pens where hungry pigs are waiting.
same as it ever was! war is big money!
The hilarious part in this fucked up scenario is that the various conflicts around the globe are literally just a footnote these days. Since 2009 there has been unrest in:
- Saudi Arabia.
- Yemen.
- Bahrain.
- Tunisia.
- Egypt.
- Pakistan.
- Afghanistan.
- Iraq.
- Palestine.
- Syria.
- Libya.
- Thailand.
- Ukraine.
- Vietnam.
- Algeria.
- Morrocco.
- Kuwait.
- Jordan.
- Sudan.
- Moldova.
- Kyrgystan.
- United Kingdom.
- Greece.
- Turkey.
- Russia.
Get used to the new norm. The markets shrug it off like nothing happened.
War is Peace.
The united kingdom doesn't stand united? At least the US is still doing great.
Fuel for the flame from the Diplomat and the CSIS.
China BAD!!!!
Time for all of the ASEAN nations to run under the skirt of the US. To be sure, the best way to do that is to sign the TPP and allow US bases everywhere.
Vietnamese obviously one-upping the Chinese riots over Japan.
Seriously, while the US is run by a bunch of incompetent warmongers, not every conflict in the world is caused by the US. As China becomes militarily stronger, expect more of these conflicts with its neighbours. China has its own MIC.
China has it's own aircraft carrier--sort of
this is just racist antichinism. without the chinese south east asia and the pacific would still be a backwater of indigeneous tribesmen. it was a symbiotic relationship. the chinese get trade and a place to shed chinese and the host country got trade and money for all the right people plus civilization. the vietnamese, however have never cared for the chinese, even skirmishing with them during the vietnam war. what are they going to do? the chinese will give them some money and the vietnamese will continue to hate the chinese. same as it ever was.
"without the chinese south east asia and the pacific would still be a backwater of indigenous tribesmen."
Yeah, sure....
Glad to see you are free of any prejudice, unlike those "crazy" Vietnamese that have NO reason to dislike their incredibly compassionate, tolerant, and selfless neighbors to their north.
How can it be racist when they all look the same?
You ought to try living near the Scotch.
Damn Canadians are a little too cheerful and friendly for my tastes plus I think they're stealing a lot of our moose.
Why we haven't carpet bombed those common prikz into benevolence is beyond my pale mortal powers of calculation. Firzt to go should the Terence and Philip of the real estate bubble, the Property Brothers. I would burn them in a lake of fire. Then comes every Canadian with a pricky moustache, which is a nexus of concentration concerning their unrepentance. Hit the one in the middle, as they say. Pardon the virulence of my Kanadeeyan enmity but this has gone on for far too long. Non-American English speakers might scratch their heads at this comment but you in star-spangled fifty-six know wtf is up. Happy Sunday.
The powers that be, would not be amused, perhaps that is the why.
I hadn't heard about the cross-border moose raids.
But then, that's why I read the 'Hedge.
If your are an American (by passport) get out of China while you still can. If you are Chinese in ObamaLand know that the traitor in chief welcomes you.
Thank you Ben Bernanke.
This is terrible news. I just bought the VIX! This war will send it to new all time lows.
They did not forget:
Sino-Vietnamese Warhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
All of this sheeit involving China starts randomly happening right after Obama visits the Far East and the Russians are getting ready to cut a Mother-of-All gas deals with China... Gimmee a break.
All of this sheeit involving China starts randomly happening right after Obama visits the Far East and the Russians are getting ready to cut a Mother-of-All gas deals with China... Gimmee a break.
It's not a proper riot until they're overturning Chinese brand cars. (I'm assuming there is such a thing.]
I think they're called Fords and Chevys.
I don't think foreign investors will go back vietnam again, let they kill each other while the rest of world move forward.
FX: Buy the fucking yen....risk off....AND FUCK THE RIGGED MARKETS...
STAWKS: START SHORTING....THIS..CHINA...WANTS WAR...
BONDS: SELL
CNBC: STOP FUCKING WATCHING
FOX BUSINESS: DITTO
MSM; IGNORE - LOUSY WITH ASININE STORIES AND FUCKBAMAVIK LACED DOUCHEBAG PUFF PIECES AND DUCK AND COVER/BLAME THE FUCKING GOP
BUY; GOLD, SILVER..COINS...AND KEEP BUYING
..THEN SIT BACK AND LAUGH AS THE MUPPETS GET MONKEY HAMMERED....
Stack On
The block's inability to craft a united response to Chinese aggression signals a further decline in its regional clout.
WEll, WELL, Dumber v. Dip-Lo-ma-t
Look, Almost all members of ASEAN have some similar claims as Vietnam. They certainly cannot come out supporting Vietnam in any way. Or else, they will be relinquishing their rights to claim. And, they cannot come out against China in any way. Or else.....
When was the last time do you see, say, Mexico or Canada came out against the USA?
In Canada we got it wrong and some of us had to apologize:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/chinese-community-gets-ap...
Chinese commerce will rule the world, someday.
I bet the majority of Canadians rue the day they allowed the Chinese in.
Same for the Inuits regarding the white man
Same for the narwhals regarding the ]nuit.
Same for anyone whose ancestors were not the original inhabitants, everyone has a beef with somebody, perhaps there is something that can be learned here?
My experience with Chinese-Americans (not sure if it's true of Chinese-Canadians) is that they hate the PRC govt with a passion far stronger than that of white people. Note that none of the PRC sympathizers in our media and political scene (Tom Friedman, Paul Krugman, Van Jones, etc) have Chinese ancestry.
So I'm not really sure where you're going with that statement.
China does not have to apologise for rampant racist policy and behaviour? Same in Taiwan and all of the other Kongzi cultures. Even the Thais, ancient decendents of the Chinese, have similar racist attitudes and laws.
This habit of whites apologising is intellectually unsupportable, because those who were apologised to have no intention of EVER treating YOU as YOU treat them.
Once you learn an Asian language you immediately find out that:
1) Asians are idiots
2) Asians talk trash about everyone all the time
3) Asians are off the charts racists
4) Asians are constantly talking about non-Asians when in their presence, and doing so with racist and derogatory language. But they are beyond clueless as this is normal, correct, right and just to them.
+100
Replace the UN with open source software.
Dynamic morality must rule. Replace Xi with 1s and 0s..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-O3kYrDPbI&index=35
Plans to build dams across the Mekong have already been drafted by the PRC.
Well now they have a good reason to use the excess capacity of concrete and rebar in China.
G20/Club of Rome bullshit
http://www.clubofrome.org/
LOL.
I love those guys.
SAVE THE PLANET.
KILL YOURSELF.
So the real news here is that this is bullish, and I should be prepped to buy stocks monday morning?
not to be racist but how can they tell? they all look the same to me.
lol, dude, your not supposed to say that, stop being so honest.
I find this incredibly ironic..... My father, a three tour Vietnam Vet was part of the rescue mission of refuges as Saigon fell..... I am amazed by the vigilance of the Vietnam people.... this is de ja vu all over again....
We could learn something from this....
Oh please, the vieturds get all pissy when EVIL CHINA dares to act on its own territory, for which there wasn't even an actual dispute. It's been unquestionably Chinese territory since people were building boats. France ganked it (china protested), China got it back. Vietnam recognized it as Chinese territory over and over again until one day they decided not to (because of soviet support following the sino-soviet split). A tiny little war was fought, and China retained control. End of discussion.
"A History of East Asia", by Holcombe would seem to disagree. Further, the current regime has been in place since 1949, hardly since building boats. The Chinese government in Taiwan would have an earlier claim. As their actions have coincided with desperate energy needs and the ability to bully smaller neighbors and defend their coasts from US aggression, I suspect this is the reason for their current actions.
As for tiny wars, everyone hates to admit how the Vietnamese kick people's asses out of their country, whether French, American or Chinese. Funny that.
No slouches in Afganistsan, either. British, Russians and Americans handed their asses.
Note how the US appears on both lists. Has the US won a "war" since 1945? Oh, yea, Korea.
Yep, the Afganis are some seriously determined people, especially when supplied weapons from various factions and the influence of the opium trade (CIA). However, I think you have to give the US the nod in the gulf wars. Korea has never ended. America is pretty good at waging war on America as well.
Bite my ass Bob, show me the battle where American asses were kicked. Our ONLY problem are the ASSES who lead us on both sides of the isle.The TET offensive was a failure for the North in every concievable way.
While a concerted American effort may have yielded a different result, having to scramble to evacuate Americans, while you leave military hardware all over a country and then leave your in-country allies to be shredded by the Viet Cong is called having your ass kicked.
Doesn't matter. A loss is a loss. The players blaming the coach, the generals blaming the administration. A teacher passing a first grader on who can't read. What happened to responsibility? Commanders who let their troops die because of dickheads in DC are just asses themselves looking forward to enjoying their pensions. We don't have heros anymore. Maybe we never did. Maybe it was only in the Hollywood movies that we had principles and ideals.
Quitters are spitters there Fred.
Nonsense. The Chinese Empires did not reach into what is now South China, for millenia. It took hundred's of years to bring those warlords into the Middle Kingdom.
Vietnamese fishermen were plying those waters before any other humans.
WOW ! This GREAT NEWS should send the VIX way down, and DOW / SnP futures WAY UP !
Nobody is going to do squat, China has been watching the US actions in the Ukraine and that has told them all they need to know about the possible US response, unpredictable situations like this are what occur when you carry out Political sabotage of other countries democratic governments and install neo Nazis to power. You lose a lot of respect, your actions are seen as being morally bankrupt and weak, it is no coincidence this is occurring now.
I bet the US government would not mind having Russia to apply some pressure on China round about now.
Neo-bolshevik jews, the Nazi's came to power through elections. The revolution in Ukraine is much more similar to Russia in actuality.
Where do people get the curious idea that morality factors in anywhere in geo-politics?
Morality is the domain of Sunday preachers.
Hypocrisy, subterfuge and double dealing are the tools of foreign policy.
This is why diplomats need to murmur non-committal but reassuring platitudes.
If the Viet cong were not afraid of the US what makes China think they would fear them? Also of note is that China never got beyond 20 miles inside Vietnam during their last incursion. Just what China does not need, a land war in Asia...
True, The Vietnam province fought a war with China over the hardwood trees (for ships) that they, the Chinese, were taking. One hundred years later Vietnam was independant. The Chinese gave up.
The people are angry and the Chinese make easy targets. Where are the PBOC police? Ha!
Now we know what the ghost cities were built for.
Is it just me or have there been an extraordinary number of global territorial water power plays recently. China vs Japan; China vs Vietnam; Russia vs Ukraine; Artic vs everyone; It seems that deep water oil plays are becoming more valuable for some reason?
Shale oil decline curve steepening?
Maybe they just figure they can get away with it now... Dipshit conclusion jumping moron.
it is a race, now, between increasingly expensive petro products and viable substitutions. transportation is the easist target for a solution in terms of a dramatic effect on oil consumption. solar power generation for retail use in homes is the next easy target. these changes will occur in the next ten years, already initiated by japan with honda and toyota marketing hydrogen cars in the next fews years. the electric car is up to 200 miles and with tesla building a battery factory to try and create the economies of scale for cheap lithium batteries, the most expensive component of an electric car. nat gas for over the road trucks is gaining steam. the same fueling network can be used for cars. in the meantime oil will not get cheaper from here because of the cost of production caused by the lack of easy oil. for now, there is plenty of oil in canada, venezuela and the undeveloped ecuador fields.
It's "wag the chihuahua" time
Never let a good crisis go to waste". I wonder how Washington DC Neo-cons will try and play this crisis out for the greater glory of imperial Washington?
This is the beginning of the 100 yrs war. The goal will be to divide the world up amongst the three major superpowers. US, Russia, China.
Russia and China will ruthlessly absorb as many countries as possilbe while the US sits in the corner and jacks off.
China to US, now give us that plane back or we will make things more uncomfortable for you.............