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Press Release 5: VietWill to join demonstration at SF Chinese Consulate PDF Print E-mail
Written by Le Duc   
Thursday, 04 December 2008 08:46

For immediate release
4 December 2008

In the wake of recent acts of aggression carried out by China in the South China Sea, adding to a long list of acts of aggression by this country over the last 40 years, VietWill will join the demonstration at the Chinese consulate on 5 December 2008 in San Francisco. Expected at the demonstsration will be members of the overseas Vietnamese community who will call on China to cease its control over the Paracel Islands which it seized from Vietnam in 1974 and to give up its claims on the Spratly Islands, part of which it seized from Vietnam in 1988.

In being present at the demonstration, VietWill's primary agenda is to call on China to stop claiming over 3/4th of the South China Sea as its historic sea as well as stop making illegal claims of the two archipelagos. Moreover, VietWill wants to call for international attention to China's behavior of interfering with sovereignty of other countries, such as the recent pressure by China to force ExxonMobil to cease its oil exploration contract with Vietnam while announcing a 29 billion budget of its own for oil exploration in the South China Sea. Finally, VietWill plans to voice a message of unity to other Southeast Asian countries both involved and not involved in the dispute to form a united stance in order to counteract China's aggressive claims and actions in the region.

Demonstration information

Location:   Chinese Consulate
                 1450 Laguna Street
                  San Francisco
Day:          Friday, December 5th, 2008
Time:        12:00pm - 1:00pm

Please join us and fight in this important issue.  We will be wearing our brown t-shirt with the image of the legendary bronze drum, which is the pride of Vietnamese ancestors.

Comments (24)
  • BS

    monkey boys and girls R into monkey business again. Arguing for territories?? isn't your motto is mainly about saving the fishermen lives? bunch of hypocrits. losers!

  • NKT

    Look who's talking!

  • Tony

    BS, how will the fishermen's lives be saved if they do not have the "territories" to safely carry out their livelihood?

  • ailien

    Please be civil. This forum is not for foul language and curses.

    We encourage debate of different point of view and disagreement, but we don't condone aggression and verbal abuse.

  • Jumbo Shrimp

    According to the grapevine that the military Malaysia, Malaysia is ready to buy 8 022 stealth missile boats from China to enhance its naval forces to counter Vietnam's "Tarantul V" to defend the security of Malaysia's territorial waters. Malaysian by the name of one of the Navy and the General Lal said at the end of the Vietnam Vietnam will import 10 Russian "Tarantul V" missile boats. A serious threat to Malyasian territorial integrity. China's more advanced 022 stealth missile boats is a very wise choice.

    At the same time, the general said, according to the current situation, all the 8 022 stealth missile boats in the purchase agreement may be signed early in January 2009, until July delivery 3, and the remaining 5 in 2010 before delivery. The Malaysian side will have to deploy all 8 in the northern waters of Malaysia, watching Vietnam's every move.

  • Tau Khua

    Jumbo Shrimp, when was the last time Malaysia and Vietnam have a naval military clash over maritime territories?

  • Jumbo Shrimp

    Malaysia is also fighting for those spratley islands. Right now, Vietnam occupied the most. 28 of those little "rocks".

    Its Navy is buying the equipments directly to check on vietnam, The recent purchase 022 FAC missile boat and it chose SU-30MKM which they know are more advanced than Vietnam's SU-30s.

  • BS

    Yeah, China sphere of influence. I heard Indonesia also wants to military tie with CHina, try to obtain CHinese missiles.

    China is military supplier to burma, thailand, malaysia and Indonesia. They haven't sold any to cambodia and Laos yet because they are too poor.

    Definitely, China can organize other ASEAN members to kick Vietnam's little butt and China doesn't even have to dirty its hand.

  • China Allergy

    BS and all others, it's the common sense that if you have nothing nice to say then you better say nothing at all.

    When you wrote "China doesn't even have to dirty its hand," aren't you shamed of and humiliated over the Darfur genocide, yes, where made-in-China weapons were inhumanly supplied? Did you imply that China's hands were neither dirty nor bloody over such guilty governments it supports?

    When you stated your points they should be factual. Not just "I heard Indonesia also wants to military tie with CHina, try to obtain CHinese missiles."
    Also when you join in any forum your courtesy and intelectual attitude is appreciated.

  • Tony

    Jumbo Shrimp,

    Be clear when you write. Don't make overarching statements. Malaysia is laying claims over certain islands in the Spratly archipelago, not the entire "Spratly Islands" as your statement may be interpreted. Malaysia's claims are based on the continental shelf principle. If this is the case, the disputes are based on the UN Law of the Sea, and the case can certainly be settled in ICJ i f necessary.

    The main problem for Malaysia is not Vietnam, but China which claims waters that fall directly under Malaysia's Exclusive Economic Zone, as stipulated by the UNCLOS. By claiming over 3/4 of the South China Sea, China leaves about 5% of the sea left for each of the other countries bordering the SCS. This totally ignores the law regarding EEZs of countries along the sea.

    We all know that the real dispute is not over the pieces of rocks, but over the water that is around them and what is potentially beneath those waters. And it is China's atrocious claims that ...

  • Tau Khua  - re:
    BS wrote:
    Yeah, China sphere of influence. I heard Indonesia also wants to military tie with CHina, try to obtain CHinese missiles.

    China is military supplier to burma, thailand, malaysia and Indonesia. They haven't sold any to cambodia and Laos yet because they are too poor.

    Definitely, China can organize other ASEAN members to kick Vietnam's little butt and China doesn't even have to dirty its hand.

    BS, actually China's hands are already pretty dirty if you ask most of the civilized world. Does melamine strike a chord in your mind?

  • Pentagon

    Jumbo Shrimp,

    I'd be greatly appreciated if you show to this forum the sources that stated Malaysia's defense against Vietnam.
    I'm so curious...

  • Anonymous

    Hello? Where is that jumbo shrimp??

  • ailien

    There is no such a thing call "Malaysia's defense against Vietnam"

    Are you from this world?

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