COMMITTEE ON PROTECTION ON TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
OF VIETNAM
Dr. Nguyen
van Canh, President
July
31, 2011
PROTEST AGAINST CHINA'S HEGEMONY WITH COLLUSION OF THE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM (CPV).
PART I: CHINA'S EXPANSIONISM. Scheme of taking over South China
Sea, Activities threatening Peace and Stability in the region.
1. In Jan.
1974, China sent a fleet south to take the Republic of Vietnam’s Paracels. The
RVN naval forces strongly and heroically resisted China's aggression. In a
fierce battle, the defending forces killed Admiral Phuong Quang Kinh, commander
of the operation and 5 colonels, sinking one ship and disabling another.
However, the RVN could not defend their territorial waters. Paracels was lost
to China.
Since then, China has built many concrete military
installations in Paracels, using the archipelagoe as a stronghold to advance to
the South. Woody is the most important island with so many structures built for
military purposes: a large and modern
runway (2.7 km long) for military jets, large buildings for offices, barracks
to house hundreds of troops, ammunition depots, ports for warships,
communication tower, huge containers to collect
140,000 tons of rainwater a year ….
In Spratlys, in March 1988, China sent warships to
take 6 islets or reefs. China’ war ships suddenly appeared and opened fires on
64 Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) soldiers while in the waters, carrying
supplies on their heads or backs to their comrades staging on Johnson reef.
They were killed instantly. They had no place to hide, no means and no
opportunity to defend. The Johnson reef was one of the six taken at that time.
Until the late 1990’s, 16 reefs/islets had been occupied by China.
A dozens fortified structures emerging from the waters
have been erected on the reefs. Two areas where more concrete buildings have
been built are Mischiefs and Fiery Cross Reef. Four colossal structures on
Mischiefs close to the Philippines appear to serve as outposts to control the
sea-lanes from Malacca to the North. The lanes lie in the west of the
Philippines’ coast. Five structures are found on the Fiery Cross reef. One of them is supposedly a missile-launching platform.
With
a secret new nuclear naval
base revealed in 2004 in Sanya, the Southern tip of Hainan, China
clearly shows her intent to control the region. In December 2007, she
moved Type 094 second-generation nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) to
the base. The Jin Class/
type 094, equipped with 12 long-range nuclear multi warheads missiles that
could reach a target as far as 7000 or 8000 km. China now has 5 of them. A source from the US Defense Department
estimates that China will have 5 more in ten years. A Jin class submarine was
seen when it entered the cave in the
base. The cave can host 20 of
them. The base has built two 800m long piers for aircraft carriers, three piers
for submarines with a modern de-magnetism facility and a network of underground
tunnels with infrastructures ready for use.
China showed that she has produced Dong Fong 23D, a
long-range anti ship ballistic missile with a maximum range of 2,700 km and
ability to strike moving targets at sea. Super jets
J-15’s have been added to increase her air capabilities in her
expansion scheme.
Shi Lang, an aircraft carrier built from a Ukraine
wrecked carrier will be put in operation within weeks and as a result will
threaten peace and stability in the entire region.
For the past few months, China’s military activities
in the region are more aggressive: opening fires on the Filipino fishermen
working in their waters, sending naval ships to patrol provocatively including
in Malaysian waters. On July 25, President Aquino told the Filipino congress
that the Philippines would use military power to protect their land. The
Philippines buys ships, planes and weapons, conducts military exercises with
American and allied troops. Chinese ranking officials have not hesitated to
convey open and direct threats to her neighbors, when telling them “don’t play
with fires”, or “China is a great power” (as Yang Jiechi,
Minister of Foreign Affairs told ASEAN members) even
in international forums like the Hanoi ASEAN meeting in July 2010. This
testifies to the fact that her ambitions to control the South Chia Sea are not
a question and that her intent is to use force to dominate the region when she
could.
Indeed, she has prepared to move forward to put the
entire Asia under her control.
Late last March, Cui tiankai, Chinese Deputy Foreign
Affairs Minister openly told visiting American Deputy Secretary of State, James
Steinberg that China has a core interest in South China Sea. It is as important
as the one she has in Taiwan, and Tibet. With this, China informs the US that
South China Sea is her pond and insists that the US, an outsider or an external
force, should not meddle with the ASEAN internal problem. To her, the US
involvement has caused tension and instability for the region.
2. Back in June
2006, China drew a new map with a U shape on South China Sea. The entire area is 3.5 million square kilometers and the U shape map
represents 3 million kilometers. She claims that the area within the map
belongs to her.
Since 2007, China has aggressively increased her
activities in the newly claimed waters.
The activities show that she has intent to exercise
her sovereignty over the region:
-Conducting military exercises using live ammunitions
in an area South of Paracels, on a yearly basis. One large-scale military
exercise on Fiery Cross with combined airborne and marine troops in September
2009. The drill is announced to practice the defense of China’s ‘frontier
against invasion’.
-Forbidding Vietnamese fishermen to fish in an area
north of 15 parallels (North of Spratlys). The reason announced is to protect
marine resources (from May to August, every year)
-Naval ships, sometimes disguised as marine vessels
are used to patrol Paracels and Spratlys. The purpose is to harass Vietnamese
fishermen, discouraging them from coming in.
-In July 2007, China ‘s naval ships surrounded
fishermen's wooden boats that were working near the Spratly Island, killed one
Vietnamese fisherman, and sunk some boats. This event occurred in front of a
Vietnamese naval ship. Reportedly, the ship stayed idle and watched, and then
quietly left the scene.
-During the last four years, China has increased her
brutal and uncivilized activities against Vietnamese fishermen. Every year, a
dozen cases of arrests for ‘violations of China's territorial waters’ were
made, though the fishermen are working on the waters that belong to Vietnam,
and where their forefathers fished for a thousand years. Victims are taken into
custody in either one of the following islands: Hainan, Lincoln, Woody or
Roberts. They are required to pay ransom for violations of Chinese waters.
In most cases, they are beaten seriously.
In others, they were killed. In all cases, they were
robbed of all products and belongings. Their fishing equipment is confiscated.
In September 2009, 27 Vietnamese fishing boats from Quang Ngai with 230
fishermen on board were denied taking refuge at the Roberts Island before a
hurricane comes in.
In Jan. 2005, three Chinese naval vessels suddenly
attacked 3 wooden boats owned by fishermen from Thanh Hoa while working in the
Tonkin Bay. 9 were killed instantly. Some 34 of them were arrested
and taken to Hainan, though they fished on the west side of the boundary of the
newly drawn map by the 2000 Treaty. Such types of activities are designed to
deny Vietnamese fishermen access to the areas where they have worked for
hundred years for living. China prefers to exercise her sovereignty over
Paracels and Spratlys at the expenses of lives of hundred Vietnamese fishermen
than to pursue the spirit of human rights that she accepts when joining the
United Nations Organization.
When no sign of Vietnamese is present in the areas,
the two archipelagoes become China’s properties.
China knows that she can’t take South China Sea
without substantial and positive contributions of CPV. As a result, she has
used all necessary means including possible ruses to conquer the latter to work
for her objective.
China herself is the cause of
Instability and Danger to Peace in the region and to the world.
PART
II. THE CPV’S COLLUSION IN CHINESE SCHEME OF EXPANSION
On June 28, 2011, Hong Lei,
spokesman of the China Ministry for Foreign Affairs (PRC) announced that there
is a mutual agreement between PRC and SRV on June 25 that both sides will carry
out “what they have agreed on” to seek a permanent and stable solution to the
South China Sea matter.
In the announcement, PRC stated
that negotiation is a must. Both sides agree not to allow “external forces ” to be involved in the internal affairs of the real
players in the region. However, PRC does not forget to threaten SRV by saying
that SRV could not do anything to “undermine the friendship with and trust from
China.” This includes making public
unfavorable statements or carrying out any such adverse activities, implying
collaboration or taking side with the USA. Or even a public demonstration by
private Vietnamese citizens to voice “Paracels and Spratlys belong to Vietnam”
is considered as an unacceptable activity.
The announcement mentioned that the
mutual agreement was reached between Dai Bingguo, a ranking member of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) in charge of foreign affairs and Ho xuan Son,
Vietnamese deputy minister for foreign affairs. They do not make public what
they have agreed on. The Vietnamese people suspect that this type of “ secret dealings” will again lead to more territorial
concessions as happened in the past:
-SVR secretly transferred many
regions bordering the frontier with China. Chains of mountains in Hŕ Giang and
Lang Son provinces are now lying inside China through the 1999 treaty. Twelve
years has past since then, both sides have not made public the map attached to
the Treaty.
-In the Tonkin Bay, SRV also
through the 2000 treaty has transferred 11, 520 square kilometers to China.
Besides, with the treaty of cooperation on mutual fishing in the Bay, Chinese
fishermen have got close to the coast of Vietnam to work. On the contrary,
Vietnamese fishermen are not allowed to fish in areas designated in the treaty,
even they belong to Vietnam. As a result, 9 of them were massacred by Chinese
naval ships and 34 were arrested as mentioned above in the 2005 incident even
when they fished on the West side of the boundary.
More over, with regards to
implementation of national policies, the SVR government has acted just as a PRC
agency that executes the latter’s
decisions in Vietnam.
The SRV
Ministry of Information has tightened its grip on news agencies, including 700
newspapers/magazines not to cover any story ‘deemed’ hostile to PRC. A few years ago, a newspaper in Hanoi published an
article covering contaminated foods imported from China. An official from
Chinese Foreign Affairs ministry called SRV Ambassador Nguyen trieu Luat to
Beijing at midnight giving a warning about the coverage. Recently, a member of SRV National Assembly
complained that in economic field, 90 % of projects to produce energy and build
roads bridges have been granted to Chinese corporations....
In November 2007, when PRC announced that the two
archipelagoes, Paracels and Spratlys of Vietnam, are annexed to Hainan province
and are under management of the Sanya district, Vietnamese students staged
strong protests against the decision in Hanoi as well as in Saigon on Dec.9 and
16, Dec. . About few days later, on Dec. 18, Qin Gang,
spokesman of the PRC Foreign Affairs in a news conference for foreign press
stated in Beijing “ we hope that the government of SRV
have a responsible attitude and at the same time have effective measures to
prevent what would undermine the bilateral relationships.”
In the following weeks, the
entire SRV government including the ministry of education, Hanoi Polytechnic
University, police, and tribunals together with CPV apparatus was mobilized to
violently suppress the protests against China’s invasion. Even until today,
such activities are still going on. Dieu Cay, an independent reporter and others
who in 2008 strongly opposed PRC annexation of the islands to China and Phan
thanh Nghięn, a student , who in 2008 resisted China’s scheme of aggression by
sitting in her home with a slogan “Paracels and Spratlys belong to Vietnam” are still in prison.
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On May 26, 2011, a Chinese
vessel penetrated into the Vietnamese waters and cut off a cable of Binh Minh
2, a ship that SRV used to do seismic research at a location, 180 miles from
Tuy Hoa. Then, two weeks later, on June 9, another Chinese vessel came in,
doing the same thing to Viking 2 of Vietnam doing research at a place, 140
miles from Vung Tau. China blatantly
violated Vietnam’s continental self or exclusive economic zones. However, China
argued that the Vietnamese ships have violated her territorial waters. The SRV government did not take any action to
protect Vietnam’s sovereignty. Afraid that the CPV again transfers secretly
more territorial waters to China and indignant at their government inaction,
students in Hanoi and Saigon angrily rose up against
China’s aggression.
Hoping that “ what both sides have agreed upon” could
be carried out smoothly and to satisfy China’s demands, SRV attempts to lend a
helping hand to PRC to gain a steady position in South China Sea while most
countries are opposed to her scheme of expansion.
PART III : PICTURES
I.
Map of Greater China (redrawn in 2010), for now.
II.
Military Build-ups on Paracels and Spratlys for expansion.
A. Paracels:
1.Woody Island: General view
2. A portion in North East of
Woody: Ammo. Depots
3. One of the two multi-
story buildings: headquarter and office
4. 2nd building on
Woody.
5. A PRC Navy headquarter on Duncan island
16° 12' 43.33" N 111°
38' 25.15"E
Duncan is a place where a
fierce battle between PRC fleet and RVN naval defending forces on Jan.19, 1974
occurred and where Chinese Admiral Phuong quang Kinh and his 5 colonels lost
their lives.
6. A structure on Discovery
Island
7. Tree
Island with a communication tower.
B. Spratlys:
1. Strategic Axis (from
Hainan via Paracels to Spratlys)
2. Sanya or Yulin Naval Base,
Hainan: 2 piers for aircraft carriers and 3 for sub marines. Underwater
Entrance of the cave. At upper right corner: system of underground
tunnels; and left corner: a pier with four sub. identified.
3. Nuclear Jin class/094 submarine ; six
ICBM’s on each side; multi warheads missiles. PRC now owns 5 of them.
4.
Headquarter, Mischiefs Reef.
9° 53' 15.06" N 115°
31' 19.56" E
5. Another structure in
Mischiefs Reef area.
6. Headquarter, Fiery Cross
Reef
7. Missile launching pad and
platform for Change Z-8 helicopters (116 meters, long and 96 meters, wide),
Fiery Cross.
8. Johnson Reef. Johnson was one of the six reefs, taken by
PRC in March 1988. This is the place where 64 SRV soldiers were killed while
they were in the water, unarmed, carrying supplies to their comrades defending
the reef.
9° 42' 50.27" N 114°
17' 9.59" E
III. HEGEMONY WITH CHINESE CHARACTERISTICS
A. PRC NAVY’S VICIOUS TREATMENTS TOWARD
PEOPLE THAT THEY CONSIDER AS
ENNEMY, EVEN INOCENT PEOPLE.
-Chinese Naval forces
violently attack Vietnamese fishermen for “violations of her territorial
waters.”
1.Wounded fishermen, carried in from Paracels.
2. Remains of a dead
fisherman
3. Fishermen arrested (After
having beaten seriously they were hurdled onto a Chinese canoe as prisoners,
guarded by armed Chinese naval men armed with sticks and weapons.
4. A fisherman’s boat is
sinking after being hit by a PRC Naval ship. It quietly left the scene. A
victim stated that before hitting his boat, Chinese troops lowered down their
flag
B. DOUBLE STANARD POLICY WHENEVER APPLICABLE IN ANY
CIRCUMSTANCE.
Yang Jiechi, PRG Foreign Minister told Singapore Foreign
Minister George Yeo at the ASEAN Regional Security Meeting in Hanoi, July,
2010: “China is a great nation, yours is only a small state. That is a fact”:
1). China has for years become economically strong and is
ranked second only after the USA. She is a big US creditor. The US owes her US$
1,010 billions (Aug. 2011). Her
unlimited ambitions to dominate the world are unprecedented. She builds up her
military might to conquer the world. The military budget, as declared, is $US 91 billion. The
actual one is $US160 billion. However she claims that she is an underdeveloped
country or properly said a poor country. With this status, every year she has
applied to the USA for economic development assistance to eradicate poverty. In
2010, she received about US $ 270 million as a grant- in -aid for development
(free/without paying back).
2). Behavior and practice of a super power with traditional Chinese
characteristics: in the name of maintenance of peace she used forces to occupy
land from others, even applying unconventional ways i.e. means used by
uncivilized and backward countries, to achieve her goal:
1.Destroyer 556 was one the four Chinese battleships involved in
carrying out a surprise attack on unarmed SRV soldiers who were instantly
murdered in the waters while making routine trips to carry supplies to their
comrades-in arms staging on Johnson Reef as they had done for the last ten
years. Johnson (09 46 N 114 22E) is one of the six reefs taken by PRG. Others are
Len Dao (09 46 N 114 22E), Chigua (09 55 N 114 29 E), Sin Cowe (09 51N 114 22E)
2. 64 SRV soldiers were
swimming
3. Another picture of the 64 soldiers in the open sea
4. They were being savagely murdered by heavy weapons
from the 4 Chinese destroyers
5. Chigua (besides Johnson) is another of the six reefs taken by Chinese
Navy 1988
IV. CPV’s VICIOUS CRACKDOWN ON PROTESTERS: SUFFOCATING ALL OPPOSITION TO CHINESE
AGGRESSION TO SATISFY CPC ’s DEMANDS TO STOP
PROTESTS BY STUDENTS.
A.
Terrorism in Hanoi, July 17, 20111.
1.
The officer in white pinpointing to targets to be captured is Lt. Col. Canh,
Deputy Director, for Security Affairs, Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi.
He is surrounded by a large group of secret service officers conducting an
anti-protest operation in Hanoi when students rise up against Chinese ships’
violations of the continent self of Vietnam and cutting off a Vietnam ship
cables while it does seismic work on Vietnam continent-self. The man in yellow is Capt. Phạm hải
Minh, Deputy Chief of the anti-demonstration task force, Hoan Kiem District,
Hanoi who was receiving order directly from Col. Canh to deal with
demonstrators.
Photo: DanLamBao, Hŕ nội,
17 July 2011
2. A protester arrested,
being carried by 4 policemen holding firmly his feet and hands after having
knocked him down to the street
3. Capt. Minh waits at the door of the bus, then uses his right foot to stamp his face. He is one of
over 100 demonstrators captured during a protest in Hanoi on July 17, 2011.
The victim is
identified as Nguyen chí Đức
4. Nguyen chí Đức
whose face was stamped by Capt. Minh receives a bouquet from an unknown
supporter, the next day after he is freed from the police station.
5. Nguyen tien Nam, a student
is arrested by secret service agents in a protest in Hanoi on 24 April 2008
when the Chinese Olympic torch is carried through Vietnam. This is the same
method to suppress protesters. The secret service agent happened to be Capt.
Minh who stamped Nguyen chí Duc’s face on July 17.
5. Photo:CTV Hŕ Nội
6. Arrest on August 21, 2011 by a
gropd of secret service agents in Hanoi.
B.
Terrorism in Saigon, 12 June 2011
1. A robust
secret service agent uses his judo skills to arrest a young protester, using
his left hand to hold firmly the victim’s throat and is forcibly throwing him
down to the street.
C. Protest in Hanoi, 24 July, 2011
1. Vietnamese teenagers
demand PRC not to murder innocent and unarmed Vietnamese fishermen
2. 2000 people join the
protest against Chinese aggressors
6. Teen age protesters demand
PRC to respect international laws: UNCLOS AND DOC.
V. SAIGON, A PART OF CHINA?
In 2008,when
the Olympic torch was carried through Saigon, Beijing sent hundreds of youth
from China to Vietnam. They marched in Saigon streets, guided and protected by
SRV police in uniform, as they did in Beijing, while Vietnamese students were
not allowed to take to the street.
Chinese Youth escorted by SRV
police on Saigon Street
Display of PRC flags by youth
coming directly from China
A Note: the
CPV has employed secret service agents who pretend to be protesters and march
together with them in order to identify who is a leader or who is active, then
make arrests as seen. The agents have been trained to deal with protestors who are opposed to
invaders.
In one report, in some
demonstrations like the ones on July 10 or 17 in Hanoi, over a hundred
protesters are arrested by secret service agents (not by police) and the ratio
of secret service agents and protesters is 5/1.
Besides, in the July 24
demonstration, CPC sent teams of Chinese secret agents from Beijing to Hanoi to
directly command the anti-demonstration operation.
There have been 8 consecutive
demonstrations against Chinese aggressors on every Sunday in both Hanoi and
Saigon, since June 5 to July 24. It appears that the CPV leadership continues
to resist against the demand of the Vietnamese people to protect the integrity
of the Vietnamese territory, to safeguard the lives of Vietnamese fishermen.
The reason as why they act ferociously against the fellow citizens clearly is
that the CPV’s ultimate objective is to help CPC expand throughout South East
Asia region, at the expenses of the Vietnamese people’s interest.
The real danger to peace and
stability to South East Asia and the world comes from CPV’s collusion with
Beijing in the latter’s scheme of expansion.