Thks for accepting: dangerous mad dog is near by us.
And look at the map, Vietnam is closer to strait than Cambodia. Cambodia is playing balancing only, they are wise enough to do politic to day, they taken fund from you and talking something, no go to death for China interest, and never been stupid as deferminatetiger, I think no more tigers is available in Indochina peninsula other than chinese prefer tiger bones which is good as special chinese dedicin.
your PM and president run around like headless chicken to philipine and india begging for help
South China sea is not our priority
RN Das, senior fellow at Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis, says the South China Sea issue was a ploy that was played out
The Chinese are sensitive when it comes to the South China Sea. They consider it to be a matter of core national interest, like Taiwan and Tibet. They are possessive about it. Malaysia, Brunei and Japan are already in dispute over the Sea with the Chinese. And naturally, if India enters this dispute and China doesn抰 protest, it doesn抰 give a right signal to other countries. It was a ploy that was deliberately played out.
Basically, this episode was played out by the media. It was an over-reaction by the Chinese media and it wasn抰 the government-owned media like China Daily that made a hue and cry. Government-owned media acted with restraint. It was the Global Times that raised the issue and Chinese authorities claim that this paper is not under government control. But in a system like China抯, nothing can be printed or said without approval of the government.
It doesn抰 mean that India and China will let this matter escalate. The India-China relationship has been improving steadily. There was the strategic economic meeting at Beijing where both countries had made some progress.
India was not doing something new in the Sea. India抯 engagement in the South China Sea has been there since the 1980s. The agreement with ONGC Videsh was signed in 2006, not this year. Vietnam has claimed that the two blocks in contention, 127 and 128, don抰 belong to China. They belong to Vietnam as per the UN Convention on Laws of the Sea signed in 1982. The Chinese are contesting that. Even if they belong to Vietnam, they can抰 invite a third country to explore, say the Chinese.
Conflict is inevitable. But then there is the reassuring presence of the US in the region. That helps a little. China engages with the US a lot at different levels but they bemoan US interference in their affairs. The Chinese may also have a feeling that India is there because of tacit support from the US.
Anyway, ONGC is not going to immediately explore blocks over there. The Defence Minister has clearly said that the South China Sea is not our priority. Our priority is our backyard. But that doesn抰 mean we are withdrawing. He may just want to assuage the wounded feelings of the Chinese.
India has been asserting itself as a superpower but it should have the strength to do that. It could be military, economic, strategic or diplomatic strength. India needs to have military capability to face the Chinese challenge. But acquiring it will take India around 10 years.
But there may be no need to go down that road. The hotline between the countries will soon be activated. And the bonding between Wen Jiabao (Chinese premier) and Manmohan Singh is very good. When tension builds up between two countries it usually gets defused when both of them meet.
South China sea is not our priority - Forbes India -
Sorry to burst your bubble , india aint going to help you poor viet and philipine dont want anything to do with poor viet either,
you are on your own now.