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The infamous Chinese dotted line map of the South China Sea PDF Print E-mail
The following article comes from Chinese perspective on the infamous dotted line map that was first issued in 1947 claiming the various archipelagos in the South China Sea.

The Dotted Line on the Chinese Map of the South China Sea: a Note
by Li Jinming and Li Dexia
Xiamen University, China
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Analysis: China's nuclear secret exposed PDF Print E-mail
By Richard Spencer
The Telegraph, UK
1 May 2008

China bills the tropical island of Hainan as a new Hawaii. Its sparkling beaches are lined by hotels patronised by western expatriates, Russian package tours and China's new middle classes.

Sanya, the town on its southern tip, is best known for hosting Miss World in recent years. But right next door, China's forward-looking naval strategists are putting a different vision of international relations into effect.
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Conflict in the South China Sea: China's Relations with Vietnam and the Philippines (Part II) PDF Print E-mail
Trouble and Strife in the South China Sea Part II: The Philippines and China

By Ian Storey
Japan Focus: an Asian-Pacific e-journal
30 April 2008

At a banquet to welcome visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao in April 2005, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo proclaimed that in view of China’s eagerness to invest in the country’s crumbling infrastructure, booming Philippine exports to the PRC, and a recently concluded agreement among the national oil companies of Vietnam, China and the Philippines—the Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking (JMSU)—to conduct seismic research in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, Sino-Philippine relations had entered “a golden age”; her guest graciously concurred.
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Conflict in the South China Sea: China's Relations with Vietnam and the Philippines (Part I) PDF Print E-mail

Trouble and Strife in the South China Sea: Vietnam and China


By Ian Storey
Japan Focus: an Asian-Pacific e-journal
30 April 2008

A source of serious interstate tension between some members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China for much of the 1990s, territorial disputes in the South China Sea became less contentious in the early 2000s: A less assertive stance by China being a critical component in Beijing’s Southeast Asian “smile diplomacy,” a diplomatic offensive designed to assuage the ASEAN countries’ security concerns vis-à-vis a rising China. Recent controversies, however, have underscored the seemingly intractable nature of the dispute and the continued sensitivity over sovereignty issues, particularly between the main protagonists: Vietnam, China, and the Philippines. In the first part of a two-part series, this article examines the impact of the dispute on Vietnam’s relations with the PRC.
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VietWill Commentary: For Vietnamese, no harmony in torch journey PDF Print E-mail
VietWill.org
24 April 2008

bieutinh SaigonBy all accounts, the Ho Chi Minh City leg of the Olympic Torch relay taking place on the 29th of April is expected to be relatively trouble free for the Beijing government. Most likely, we will not see protesters in support of Tibet or Darfur in the streets due to Vietnam's strict laws governing public demonstrations. However, that does not mean that the Vietnamese people are welcoming the Olympic torch with open arms. On the contrary, for the past months, there have been intense discussions on internet forums and blogs of Vietnamese both inside and outside of Vietnam regarding the coming of the torch to HCMC.
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