South China Sea Forum

[Filipino]

Good god, can't we all just get along

 

[Abhishek_]

Good god, can't we all just get along

apparently not

 

[Zero_wing]

apparently not

Amen to that

US has no allies, even people from your closest nato countries detest US, that much is apparent from the internet as well as living in NATO countries


Kobe Bryant is G.A.Y.
Now that's gonna agitate filipines more than any territorial dispute, bakala ka

Huh agitate man other guy high here in the forum Jesus that hell is wrong with the world now some non mainlander is high on make believe opium with a little white dusk coke ewan ko sayo

 

[Viet]

PM Dung: Vietnam treasures ties with China
Updated : 8:00 AM, 21/09/2012 | Voice of Vietnam

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has reaffirmed Vietnam’s consistent, long-term and strategic policy of consolidating and strengthening the friendly and comprehensive cooperative ties with China.

PM Dung emphasised this while meeting with Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping on September 20 after he arrived in Nanning, the capital of China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, to attend the 9th ASEAN-China Expo (CAEXPO) and China-ASEAN Business-Investment Summit (CABIS).

Xi applauded Dung’s attendance at the events, which, he said, reflects Vietnamese Party and State’s determination to strengthen the comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership with China and its support for CAEXPO and CABIS, practically contributing to the China-ASEAN cooperation, he added.

On the occasion of China’s 63rd National Day, the Vietnamese PM congratulated the Chinese Government and people on the great achievements they have made under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC). He also wished the upcoming 18th National Congress of the CPC a great success.

Dung said the 9th CAEXPO is a good chance for ASEAN countries and China to increase friendship exchanges and promote their strategic partnership.

The two leaders agreed that the Vietnam-China friendship, fostered by the two countries’ generations of leaders and people, is a valuable asset of the two Parties, States and peoples that should be inherited, preserved and developed.

Xi stressed that the Chinese Party, State and people attach great importance to the relations with Vietnam and are ready to deepen their comprehensive strategic cooperation partnership.

The two leaders said strengthening political trust is of great importance to both countries in the current situation.

They highly valued the outcomes of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s visit to China in October 2011, Vice President Xi Jinping’s visit to Vietnam in December 2011 and most recently, the meeting between Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang and Chinese Party General Secretary and President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the 20th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia early this month.

The two leaders reached a number of important common perceptions and specific measures to boost bilateral ties in the future, especially maintaining and increasing visits and meetings by the two countries’ high-ranking leaders.

The two sides will boost the practical and mutually beneficial cooperation in all aspects, particularly in economics and trade; strengthen relations between ministries, agencies and localities, and people-to-people exchange activities; enhance cooperation in regional and international issues; and the friendship between the two peoples.

They also agreed to persistently maintain peace and stability in the East Sea, satisfactorily resolve every issue through peaceful negotiations starting from the strategic high of the two countries’ relationship.

PM Dung stressed that the most important thing now is that the two sides seriously implement common perceptions of the two countries’ high-ranking leaders and strictly abide by the agreement on basic principles guiding the settlement of sea-related issues, as well as satisfactorily resolve disputes and newly-emerging issues through peaceful negotiations, on the basis of international law, especially the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, and in the spirit of the Declaration on Conduct of the Parties in the East Sea (DOC), towards a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).

On behalf of the Vietnamese Party, State and Government, PM Dung invited Xi to visit Vietnam after the 18th National Congress of the CPC concludes.

The Chinese Vice President accepted the invitation with pleasure, saying that the maintenance of high-ranking visits and meetings plays an important role in continuously strengthening and consolidating the relations between the two Parties, States and peoples.

PM Dung: Vietnam treasures ties with China - PM Dung: Vietnam treasures ties with China - VOVNEWS.VN

 

[Viet]

I always wonder, how politicians perfectly master diplomatic flowers of speech...
Anyway as long as we talk there is no war.

 

[djsjs]

Economic cooperation helps to realize economy take-off for both VN and Guangxi.

 

[ahfatzia]

Taiwan to deploy cannons, mortars on Taiping ( Itu Aba) in South China Sea


Taipei (The China Post/ANN) - Taiwan's Ministry of National Defence (MND) yesterday confirmed that it will complete the installation of a certain number of cannons and mortars on Taiping Island in the South China Sea next month in a move to enhance its military presence in the disputed seas amid the escalating conflict over the region.

A total of eight sets of 40mm autocannons and a certain number of 120mm mortars will be shipped to the island by the end of August, unidentified MND sources told the Chinese-language United Evening News yesterday.

The latest weapons are expected to replace the existing 106mm recoilless guns and the 81mm mortars currently used by Taiwan's Coast Guard Administration (CGA).

The latest installation will lead to extended range and enhanced lethality, military sources said.

The CGA has been responsible for defending Taiping since the Marines were withdrawn in 1999 to ease tensions with other claimants.

Also, the MND and the CGA could hold a regular live-fire drill at some time in August in Taiping. The drill could be open to media on the demand of lawmakers, the report said.

Meanwhile, ruling Kuomintang (KMT) Legislator Lin Yu-fang, who concurrently serves as convener of the Legislature's Foreign and National Defence Committee, told local media yesterday that he could lead a delegation for a tour of the island to inspect the latest installation.

Taiping is expected to see an enhanced military presence in the near future, Lin said.

Lin has previously called on the MND to consider deploying the Tien Chien I "Sky Sword" missiles on the island to beef up defensive capabilities. But the proposal was rejected by the ministry because the move could cause political controversy.

The autocannons and mortars are to be deployed after a legislative committee demanded this May that the MND should do so on Taiping Island and Dongsha Island within six months.

Six countries - Taiwan, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines - all claim total or partial sovereignty over the South China Sea.

Taiwan controls the Dongsha Islands, the largest island group in the South China Sea, as well as Taiping Island.

Taiwan to deploy cannons, mortars on Taiping in South China Sea - Yahoo! News Philippines


I wonder what Niceguy has to say about this. Itu Aba is his favorite island and he always wants to attack it while China is busy elsewhere.

 

[djsjs]

how about start a new thread of introducing vietnamese, topics of works, education ,economy, life ,research......forget the political and territorial disputes temporarily?
we are waiting......

 

[Viet]

Interesting, the idea..I am thinking about it.

 

[djsjs]

Interesting, the idea..I am thinking about it.

Do not let us wait too long.....is one year enongh?I have no more patience


i think vietnam members will selectively ignore my proposal !!!

 

[Viet]

Do not let us wait too long.....is one year enongh?I have no more patience

i think vietnam members will selectively ignore my proposal !!!

I am a bit skeptical to open such a thread. Firstly do not want to waste other people´s time and disc space, and secondly there is not much really interesting thing about VN , it is still poor, backward, and history full of devasting wars...all bad stuffs.

Would like to know if my countrymen support the idea?

 

[EastSea]

yea last time the use of language approached this was right before the korean war, 1962, and sino-vietnam war

1962 was Sino-India war.
1979 China attacked Vietnam.

 

[EastSea]

yea last time the use of language approached this was right before the korean war, 1962, and sino-vietnam war

1962 was Sino-India war.
1979 China attacked Vietnam.

 

[Viet]

China, Vietnam discuss Tonkin Gulf issue
Updated : 6:53 PM, 28/09/2012 | Voice of VN

(VOV) - Vietnamese and Chinese experts have emphasised that the delineation of the seas outside the Tonkin Gulf should be based on international law.

The agreement was reached at their second round of negotiations in Beijing on September 26 and 27 during which they stressed the importance of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

In friendly, frank, and constructive discussions, they reiterated their determination to accelerate negotiations in accordance with the Vietnam-China agreement on basic principles guiding the settlement of sea-related issues, which was signed in October 2011.

The experts also scheduled the third round of negotiations for early 2013, to be held in Vietnam.

China, Vietnam discuss Tonkin Gulf issue - China, Vietnam discuss Tonkin Gulf issue - VOVNEWS.VN

 

[Viet]

Seems both sides have reached an agreement how we can go forward to delineation of the seas outside the Tonkin Gulf.