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(BGF) – The Philippines Daily Inquirer reported that China sent four patrol ships to a disputed area of the South China Sea in order to protect its “sovereignty and territorial waters”
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China sends patrol ships to disputed waters
July 1, 2012
BEIJING—China has deployed four patrol ships to a disputed area of the South China Sea, state media said Sunday, amid a deepening row with Vietnam over competing territorial claims.
The ships, described by the Xinhua news agency as surveillance vessels, reached what China calls the Huayang reef in the Spratly islands on Sunday.
China last month summoned Vietnam’s ambassador in Beijing and protested a law adopted by the Vietnamese parliament that places the disputed Spratly islands under Hanoi’s sovereignty.
China and Vietnam, as well as other neighboring nations, are locked in longstanding territorial disputes over the South China Sea, including the resources-rich Spratly and Paracel islands.
Xinhua said that the ships left China’s southern island province of Hainan on June 26 and would travel more than 2,400 nautical miles on patrols.
The ships are under the authority of the Chinese government’s State Oceanic Administration and not the country’s navy.
China said Thursday it would resolutely oppose any military provocation in its territorial waters and protect its sovereignty – remarks that appeared to be directed partly at Vietnam.
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by Admin | Jun 6, 2014 | News
(BGF) – According to Reuters, China’s Defence Ministry said that its military had already set up a normal, combat-ready patrol system in seas in order to protect its maritime rights and sovereignty, as response to Vietnam air patrols over the Spratly Islands.
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China starts “combat ready” patrols in disputed seas
June 28, 2012.
(Reuters) – China has begun combat-ready patrols in the waters around a disputed group of islands in the South China Sea, the Defence Ministry said on Thursday, the latest escalation in tension over the potentially resource-rich area.
Asked about what China would do in response to Vietnamese air patrols over the Spratly Islands, the ministry’s spokesman, Geng Yansheng, said China would “resolutely oppose any militarily provocative behaviour”.
“In order to protect national sovereignty and our security and development interests, the Chinese military has already set up a normal, combat-ready patrol system in seas under our control,” he said.
“The Chinese military’s resolve and will to defend territorial sovereignty and protect our maritime rights and interests is firm and unshakeable,” Geng added, according to a transcript on the ministry’s website (www.mod.gov.cn) of comments at a briefing.
He did not elaborate. The ministry does not allow foreign reporters to attend its monthly briefings.
China is involved in long-running disputes with Vietnam and the Philippines about ownership of the South China Sea and its myriad, mostly uninhabited, islands and atolls. Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei also have claims.
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by Admin | Jun 6, 2014 | News
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(BGF) – The Japan Times has reported that Chinese and Japanese business leaders have vowed to continue holding dialogues in order to “deepen mutual understanding…so as to contribute to the prosperity and peace of the Asian economy and society.” Cooperation and communication between the business communities in Japan and China is critical given the diplomatic tensions between the countries due to their territorial dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands and Japan’s actions during World War II. Click here to read the full article or visit The Japan Times‘ website.
Japan, China Execs Vow to Unite on Commerce
The Japan Times
Business leaders from Japan and China have pledged to keep the lines of communication open despite diplomatic friction over the Senkaku Islands and conflicting perceptions of wartime history.
“Relations between China and Japan are in a state to be very concerned,” Charles Yin, founder of the China-Japan Asia CEO Forum, said Wednesday. “So I thought economic leaders need to stand up and hold dialogues to deepen mutual understanding and communicate with each other so as to contribute to the prosperity and peace of the Asian economy and society.”
Yin, who is also executive chairman of the Chinese investment and advisory firm Worldwide City Holdings, was speaking at a news conference in Tokyo after the forum’s first meeting in about three years.
The event, which began in 2009, was not held on a large scale the previous two years due to the souring of bilateral ties.
Yasuchika Hasegawa, co-chairman of the forum and president and CEO of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., said commerce can be of help in tough political times.
“It would be desirable if both (Japan and China) can hold dialogue more freely on a political front. But when there is no such chance, continuing business cooperation is so beneficial,” he said.
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by Admin | Jun 6, 2014 | News
(BGF) – According to The Diplomat, it is the first time ever that a number of well-known public figures in Vietnam and within the Vietnamese Diaspora signed a letter to the Philippine Ambassador in Vietnthe am to express support for the Philippine’s sovereignty rights in the Scarborough Shoal. The interesting is that the letter chose to use a combination of the Filipino and Vietnamese names, “West Philippine Sea/ East Sea” instead of using the conventional international name of “South China Sea”.
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Vietnamese Back Philippines
May 24, 2012 by Huy Duong
(The Diplomat) – In a new twist this week to the stand-off between China and the Philippines at Scarborough Shoal, 66 Vietnamese, many of them well-known public figures in Vietnam and within the Vietnamese Diaspora, signed a letter to the Philippine Ambassador in Vietnam to express support for the Philippines’ “sovereign rights” in the continuing stand-off.
The main points of the letter are:
1) Support for the “sovereign rights” of the Philippines in the Scarborough Shoal.
2) Opposition to China’s use of the “nine-dashed line” to make overlapping claims with the Exclusive Economic Zones and continental shelves of the Philippines, Vietnam and other ASEAN countries, as well as opposition to “China’s actions and threats of force,” the latter presumably referring to articles in China’s state controlled press.
3) Support for the Philippines’ proposal to submit the dispute at Scarborough Shoal to the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).
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by Admin | Jun 6, 2014 | News
(BGF) – The WorldNet Daily reported that China was putting pressure on Russia to remove its commercial presence from the South China Sea, particularly the oil exploration projects it has with Vietnam. Moscow also has military interest in Vietnam, with its submarines contract with Vietnam in the end of 2011.
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China wants Russia out of South China Sea
May 12, 2012
(WorldNet Daily) – Just as it has demanded of the United States, China now is putting pressure on Russia to remove its commercial presence from the South China Sea, particularly the oil exploration projects it has with Vietnam.
Photo: Hanoi’s order of Kilo-class submarines from Russia
Not only is Moscow working with Hanoi on the commercial side, but it is selling submarines that Vietnam believes it needs to stand up to Beijing as its feud continues over offshore mineral rights.
Moscow’s commercial and military interests in Vietnam, however, are part of a larger strategic issue of maintaining its presence in the South China Sea, which Beijing claims is in its area of influence.
China wants all outside interests to leave, including the U.S. For Moscow, however, it not only has its own strategic interest in the area, but any pullout would be considered by Moscow as a loss of face and prestige.
Such a choice, said Dmitriy Mosyakov of the Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania Center at the Russian Sciences Institute of Oriental States, would present “the Kremlin with a choice, the price of which may prove very high.”
In so doing, Mosyakov pointed out, “it will subordinate its national interests in Asia to the interests of China and in that case the bottom line for Russia will be not only a loss of face in Asia, affecting its image, but also a loss of very lucrative oil and gas contracts worth billions of dollars.”
China’s preoccupation with other countries’ access to its area of primary interest could increasingly influence its relations with these countries in other areas of mutual interest.
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