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SOURCE: ECONOMIC TIMES
As President Pranab Mukherjee embarks on a landmark trip to China amid tensions over Sino-Pak axis and South China Sea imbroglio, a senior Vietnamese leader has few tips on dealing with a neighbour like China.
Vietnam, like India, has also fought border wars with China in the post-World War II period. Sino-Vietnam relations have been lukewarm and it has touched a new low owing to South China Sea crisis. Incidentally, Mukherjee’s trip to China coincides with US President Barack Obama’s trip to Vietnam in what could largely be viewed as an attempt to support Vietnam amid South China Sea tensions.
According to former deputy prime minister of Vietnam Vu Khoan, neighbours, although sometimes at loggerheads, eventually have to settle with each other to live. “We understand that our country, in comparison with China, is a small one. Therefore, after each time our forefathers defeated China’s invasions, we sent out emissaries to make peace. This is a sensible way for a small country to deal with a big neighbour. For thousands of years, we have always done it-…we have made utmost efforts to ‘painfully’ forget the damages wrought by war…However, we then have to put them aside to develop friendly relations with them for national development.”
“Every coin has two sides. We do not encourage extreme nationalism, but we should look back to see how China has treated us. Although they say friendship, they have invaded our territory. Ultimately, China must respect our nation and our sovereignty. Otherwise, Vietnamese will be ‘allergic’ to China,” noted Khoan.
The US President’s trip to Hanoi will be dominated by discussions on the Trans Pacific Partnership of which both Vietnam and USA are members, besides US defence sales to Vietnam and South China Sea disputes including freedom of navigation. China is excluded from TPP and India is closely observing as TPP evolves. “…US President Obama’s visit to Vietnam is significant by itself. This falls within a political calculation, or to be more precise, a very important strategic calculation from the US side. The visit takes place in the context that the US is carrying out its pivoting strategy to the Asia-Pacific region, in which Vietnam always holds a very important geopolitical and geo-economic position,” according to Khoan.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...w-to-deal-with-china/articleshow/52392687.cms
As President Pranab Mukherjee embarks on a landmark trip to China amid tensions over Sino-Pak axis and South China Sea imbroglio, a senior Vietnamese leader has few tips on dealing with a neighbour like China.
Vietnam, like India, has also fought border wars with China in the post-World War II period. Sino-Vietnam relations have been lukewarm and it has touched a new low owing to South China Sea crisis. Incidentally, Mukherjee’s trip to China coincides with US President Barack Obama’s trip to Vietnam in what could largely be viewed as an attempt to support Vietnam amid South China Sea tensions.
According to former deputy prime minister of Vietnam Vu Khoan, neighbours, although sometimes at loggerheads, eventually have to settle with each other to live. “We understand that our country, in comparison with China, is a small one. Therefore, after each time our forefathers defeated China’s invasions, we sent out emissaries to make peace. This is a sensible way for a small country to deal with a big neighbour. For thousands of years, we have always done it-…we have made utmost efforts to ‘painfully’ forget the damages wrought by war…However, we then have to put them aside to develop friendly relations with them for national development.”
“Every coin has two sides. We do not encourage extreme nationalism, but we should look back to see how China has treated us. Although they say friendship, they have invaded our territory. Ultimately, China must respect our nation and our sovereignty. Otherwise, Vietnamese will be ‘allergic’ to China,” noted Khoan.
The US President’s trip to Hanoi will be dominated by discussions on the Trans Pacific Partnership of which both Vietnam and USA are members, besides US defence sales to Vietnam and South China Sea disputes including freedom of navigation. China is excluded from TPP and India is closely observing as TPP evolves. “…US President Obama’s visit to Vietnam is significant by itself. This falls within a political calculation, or to be more precise, a very important strategic calculation from the US side. The visit takes place in the context that the US is carrying out its pivoting strategy to the Asia-Pacific region, in which Vietnam always holds a very important geopolitical and geo-economic position,” according to Khoan.
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...w-to-deal-with-china/articleshow/52392687.cms