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‘We will never forget’: Anti-China sentiment simmers in Vietnam on anniversary of bloody border war that had no winner | South China Morning Post

PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 17 February, 2016, 6:50pm


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The commemoration took place even though large gatherings without government approval are often stopped by the police. There have been no official government commemorations of the war. Photo: Reuters



Vietnamese activists chanted anti-China slogans in Hanoi Wednesday as they marked the 37th anniversary of a border war with their giant neighbour, in a memorial that followed reports that Beijing has installed missile systems in contested seas.

The two communist countries are locked in a long-standing territorial dispute over the Paracel and Spratly islands in the South China Sea.

Vietnam’s premier is due to return home Wednesday after attending a summit hosted by the United States aimed at bolstering regional resolve in the face of China’s military muscle-flexing.

On Wednesday, Beijing defended the deployment of armaments in the South China Sea after Taiwan said surface-to-air missiles had been installed on a disputed island in the Paracel chain in the region.


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A man plays the violin in front of a statue of Vietnam's Emperor Ly Thai To during a rally in Hanoi marking the 37th anniversary of the border war with China. Photo: EPA



In a pre-planned event, more than 100 people gathered in Hanoi to mark an older territorial conflict: China’s 1979 invasion of Vietnam’s northernmost provinces.

Security officials stood by as veterans chanted “down with China, down with China’s invasion.”

Thirty seven years ago, 600,000 Chinese troops invaded northern Vietnam to “teach Vietnam a lesson” for ousting the Beijing-backed Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. China withdrew its troops after a month, but both powers claimed victory.

Although Vietnam fetes its military victories over the French and American armies, it did not arrange any official events to mark the China border war - much to the chagrin of veterans and activists.




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Anti-China activists hold a banner that reads: ‘February 17th, 1979 - we will never forget’. Photo: AFP



“We are very sad that there has never been any official organisation (memorial) for the day,” 64-year-old Vietnamese war veteran Pham Thanh said at Wednesday’s commemoration in central Hanoi, where demonstrators carried banners that read “we will never forget”.

Beijing’s increasingly assertive stance in contested waters has triggered public anger and rounds of protests in authoritarian Vietnam where the demonstrations are sometimes forcefully broken up.

China is also Vietnam’s largest trading partner, complicating Hanoi’s position towards its neighbour.

On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama announced plans to make his first state visit to Vietnam in May, which Vietnam’s foreign ministry hailed as “carrying Vietnam-US relations to new heights”.
 
The commemoration took place even though large gatherings without government approval are often stopped by the police. There have been no official government commemorations of the war. Photo: Reuters

Seems that your government doesn't like them there:cheesy:
 
Vietnam, the plucky, tough underdog that fought hard and fought well from the 50s to early 90s....against 3 major powers and several minor ones....and still there to hold head up high and proud.

Respect!
It's more like that they fought by the powers, served as a pawn by the powers in their geopolitical games and what Vietnam gets in the game is backwardness in economy and mass war casualties. Till now it is still one of the poorest in this region
 
Sadly to say that in today's China people, only care about making money ,getting rich, living a fancy life... other issues just have to take a backseat. You can only see Chinese people talking about SCS, Taiwan issues etc.here
 
For average Chinese, especially among young people , most know we had a war against US in Korea long time ago but don't know wars against India , Soviet Union and Vietnam.
 
For average Chinese, especially among young people , most know we had a war against US in Korea long time ago but don't know wars against India , Soviet Union and Vietnam.
let me guess: most Chinese don´t know anything, either about the great famine, culture revolution, massacre in Beijing, but everything about the rape in Nanjing?
 
let me guess: most Chinese don´t know anything, either about the great famine, culture revolution, massacre in Beijing, but everything about the rape in Nanjing?
One thing is for sure that average Chinese know way more than average Vietnamese, That's why China is where she is and Vietnam is where you are.
 
Rich people are more likely to complain about not getting enough. see the case in US and Europe.their treatment should be improved but still way way better than their Vietnamese counterparts, I don't blame for that, what can you expect from a dirt poor country? You country was a pawn used by US. Soviet Union and China many times and who suffered the most were your civilians. The world powers financed you and gave your weapons but your people have to bleed for them and because all those wars were fought on your land,it doesn't need a rocket scientist to figure out who suffered the most.

China can fight a border war with Vietnam while most Chinese are oblivious of that except for the people who live in the border regions but for Vietnam it would be a life and death issue and you have to worry about the very existence of your nation. That's the difference and the reason why very few Chinese people know that war.
 
For average Chinese, especially among young people , most know we had a war against US in Korea long time ago but don't know wars against India , Soviet Union and Vietnam.

Thetic opinion, I didn't read any medias make poll about if readers know those wars. How did you get that conclusion?
 
Rich people are more likely to complain about not getting enough. see the case in US and Europe.their treatment should be improved but still way way better than their Vietnamese counterparts, I don't blame for that, what can you expect from a dirt poor country? You country was a pawn used by US. Soviet Union and China many times and who suffered the most were your civilians. The world powers financed you and gave your weapons but your people have to bleed for them and because all those wars were fought on your land,it doesn't need a rocket scientist to figure out who suffered the most.

China can fight a border war with Vietnam while most Chinese are oblivious of that except for the people who live in the border regions but for Vietnam it would be a life and death issue and you have to worry about the very existence of your nation. That's the difference and the reason why very few Chinese people know that war.
keep your garbage to yourself!

do you have no shame writing this piece of shit?

you supported a mass killing in Cambodia with nearly all of the entire population ending in mass graves, and you dare to post such garbage. the PLA invaded Vietnam because you were angry, because you failed to achieve that goal, because we stopped them.
 
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