China Supports Malaysia's Proposal To Share Economic Activities In SC Sea

[Lankan Ranger]

China Supports Malaysia's Proposal To Share Economic Activities
In South China Sea

China has expressed support for a Malaysian proposal to set up a special purpose vehicle (SPV) as the platform to share economic activities in the South China Sea.

China's National Defence Minister Gen Liang Guanglie said "all the relevant parties must be prudent of the South Sea and should work together on that".

"We do not hope to have a negative impact on stability and peace in the area," he told Bernama on the sidelines of the 10th IISS Asia Security Summit - The Shangri-La Dialogue, here.

Liang was asked to comment on Malaysia's proposal to set up the SPV to share economic activities among the claimant countries in the South China Sea, as suggested by Malaysian Defence Minister Datuk Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi during the question-and-answer session at the annual dialogue.

Dr Ahmad Zahid had said the countries could share not only in terms of equity participation but also in terms of exploration of the natural resources in the disputed areas.

Liang pointed that when Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited Malaysia in April, both Jiabao and Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had discussed the issue of overlapping claims in the South China Sea.

"They had a good talk," he said.

Liang said: "I talked about the Chinese stand towards the South Sea and (I guess) you are aware of it," he said referring to his speech earlier.

He said China was committed to maintaining peace and stability in the South China Sea.

In 2002, China and the Asean countries signed a declaration on the Code of Conduct on the South China Sea, which acknowledged the settlement of the territorial and jurisdictional disputes by peaceful means through friendly consultation and negotiations by the sovereign states directly involved.

Also in the declaration, Liang said, it was reaffirmed that the freedom of navigation and overflight in the South China Sea should be respected according to universally recognised principles of international law.

At present, the general situation in the South China Sea remains stable.

The minister said China had been actively holding dialogues and consultations with the Asean countries in implementing the declaration.

BERNAMA - China Supports Malaysia's Proposal To Share Economic Activities In South China Sea

 

[Lankan Ranger]

 

[Lankan Ranger]

 

[SXNJ]

Finally, I saw a great post about the South China Sea, it's too many crazy post between China and Vietnam

 

[Martian2]

Malaysians are smarter than Vietnamese or Filipinos.

There are only two choices. Accept a compromise (e.g. get something) or face Chinese guns (e.g. keep dying at the receiving end of 100m cannons, anti-ship missiles, Yu-6/Mark-48 class heavyweight torpedoes, etc.).

This is not that hard a decision.

 

[siegecrossbow]

Shows two things:

1) China is reasonable. We are willing to settle issues peacefully and reasonably.

2) ASEAN is not a close packed group bent on pushing China out of the South China Sea, as previously claimed. First Indonesia, now Malaysia, who is next?

 

[CardSharp]

Shows two things:

1) China is reasonable. We are willing to settle issues peacefully and reasonably.

2) ASEAN is not a close packed group bent on pushing China out of the South China Sea, as previously claimed. First Indonesia, now Malaysia, who is next?

Don't want to sound mean but this is the weakest link strategy. Indonesia and the Philippines are the most willing to cooperate and if an agreement could be worked out, it would make more belligerent nations like Vietnam seem unreasonable in their opposition to the point where they would have to fold and be brought into the agreement under the framework already worked out between China and the more pliant nations.

 

[CardSharp]

The timing of the agreement is also impeccable, coming right as it does right after checking Vietnamese efforts at oil exploration (inside their EEZ none-the-less) and showing the rest of ASEAN that America will stay quiet on the issue.

Last year, the US jumped into the issue on Japan's side, declaring that the Senkakus were covered by the US-Japan security treaty and thereby implying, however implausibly, that the United States was ready to go to war with China over these remote Taiwanese rocks.

The incident attracted heightened attention because the United States had announced its ''return to Asia'' on the back of the issue of maritime security, in US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's words, "a national interest in freedom of navigation, open access to Asia's maritime commons, and respect for international law in the South China Sea".

2011 is, apparently, different.

On May 31, US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and had the opportunity to flay the Chinese for their latest piece of high-handedness in the South China Sea ... but chose not to.

When asked by Malaysia's China Press if the United States had ''any position'' on the most recent incident, Campbell responded:

Almost every week we see incidents of various kinds (laughter), between fishing vessels ... between scientific vessels...prospecting ships...and the like. Our general policy remains the same. We discourage a resort to violence in these circumstances, or threats, and we want to see a process of dialogue emerge. We communicate intensively and privately with a variety of states associated with the South China Sea side [sic] and I think we are going to continue to do that as we go forward. [2]
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In Kuala Lumpur, Admiral Robert Willard used the same phrasing in discussing Vietnam's gripes with China: The ''United States doesn't take sides in a dispute,'' Willard said. ''It's strongly committed to see that the sides within the dispute handle them peacefully and through dialogue and not in confrontation at sea or in the air.''

Assistant Secretary Campbell's seemingly dismissive response is rather striking when reports of a plethora of recent alleged Chinese intrusions in the South China Sea are taken into account.

As it responded to the Chinese sabotage of its seismic vessel, Vietnam alleged another incident of harassment of a survey ship, and publicized allegations that hundreds of Chinese fishing boats are evading a Chinese government fishing ban by fishing in disputed waters off the Vietnamese coast, driving away Vietnamese vessels. [3]

 

[lcloo]

Shows two things:

1) China is reasonable. We are willing to settle issues peacefully and reasonably.

2) ASEAN is not a close packed group bent on pushing China out of the South China Sea, as previously claimed. First Indonesia, now Malaysia, who is next?

Nations friendly to China also include Myamar, Thailand, Laos.

A lot of people don't know that many of Thailands present and past prime ministers and high officials are ethnic Chinese. Their Thai names have hide these facts.

 

[rcrmj]

very good start, malaysia and china sets up a very good example to some countries in this region, like the hystetical Vietnam`

 

[huzihaidao12]

Since Malaysia choose to cooperate, it is very good, China will not eat food alone, Malaysia will determine its own share in the South China Sea. The most troublesome may be Vietnam, even Philippines just a big mouth, I think the Philippines still has a chance to cooperate .

 

[GSK]

Good move. Let's isolate vietnam politically first. After that, we have plenty of choices to solve the problem with them, which way we go is up to them then. I must say our foreign diplomatic strategy is really fantastic.

上兵伐谋，其次伐交，其次伐兵，其下攻城。

We are now at the stage number 1 and 2.

 

[GSK]

Hey, Guys, really want to share this with you. Maybe helpful for understanding the current Chinese strategy

上兵伐谋，其次伐交，其次伐兵，其下攻城。

假定你和你哥哥你弟弟三个人在一起睡午觉，然后你尿床了。

你对你妈妈说：“别打弟弟，是我尿的！”，
这是伐谋。
你对你哥哥说：“呆会儿我证明不是你尿的，你证明不是我尿的。”，
这是伐交。
你威胁你弟弟说：“你要不在妈妈面前承认是你尿的，我就整死你！”，
这是伐兵。
你弟弟不被威胁，你们打了一架，终于你弟弟屈服了，但你由于打架仍然被修理了一顿。
这是攻城。

 

[Way to go]

The power of secret under table deal. lol.

 

[GSK]

Hey, Guys, really want to share this with you. Maybe helpful for understanding the current Chinese strategy

上兵伐谋，其次伐交，其次伐兵，其下攻城。

假定你和你哥哥你弟弟三个人在一起睡午觉，然后你尿床了。

你对你妈妈说：“别打弟弟，是我尿的！”，
这是伐谋。
你对你哥哥说：“呆会儿我证明不是你尿的，你证明不是我尿的。”，
这是伐交。
你威胁你弟弟说：“你要不在妈妈面前承认是你尿的，我就整死你！”，
这是伐兵。
你弟弟不被威胁，你们打了一架，终于你弟弟屈服了，但你由于打架仍然被修理了一顿。
这是攻城。