FINANCIAL TIMES: The Chinese government raced to evacuate its nationals from Vietnam by sea and air on Sunday, as it scrambled to contain the fallout from last week’s deadly protests over Beijing’s drilling activities in a contested area of the South China Sea…
Sixteen “critically injured” Chinese citizens were flown out of Vietnam earlier on Sunday, Xinhua said. It added that two Chinese nationals were killed and more than 100 injured in last week’s violence, much of which was centered around an iron and steel plant owned by Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group.
Outraged by China’s dispatch of an oil-rig to contested waters around the Paracel Islands, Vietnamese mobs descended on Chinese and Taiwan-owned factories in a dramatic escalation of the long simmering diplomatic spat between China and its neighbours over their rival claims in the South China Sea. More than 3,000 Chinese nationals had been evacuated from Vietnam since the violence erupted, according to China’s foreign affairs ministry… (more)
EDITOR: The South China Sea has become the most important clash point between China in its quest for hegemony and its weaker but numerous neighbors aided by the U. S.
Vietnam, our future ‘best friend’ in Asia, is the only nation prepared to aggressively resist China dominance and exploitation.
