Re: Vietnam demands halt to Chinese offshore drilling (fwd)

["Toan" <toan@usa.net>]

Cha`o ba'c AnHa?i, la`ng Mi't nha` ta,
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> From: AnHai Doan <anhai@cs.washington.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <vnsa-l@csd.uwm.edu>
> Subject: Vietnam demands halt to Chinese offshore drilling (fwd)
> Date: Monday, 17 March 1997 8:42 PM
> 
> 
> Hey folks,the game begins. 

Yes, the game begins!
(Ba'c na`o co' die^?n ti'ch Binh Pha'p va` Chie^'n Quo^'c Sa'ch va` Qua^n
Su+ tie^.n tay la`m o+n da^~n giu`m ba` con ca'c bu+o+'c co+` sa('p dde^'n.
Hay bo'i mo` cu~ng ddu+o+.c!) 

>Can Vietnam do anything other than loud
> protesting?  Hai.

But isn't protesting part of the game?

A gathering of enemies (from both sides) has also been in the work for a
time now.

Who will release the pressure first? 
Maybe for mutual benefit, both sides of the valve will be kept right below
critical level?

Old wine, new bottle?

Pop!

Look there!

(....and while you looked, your pocket was picked!)

Cheers,

Toa`n
 
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> Subject: Vietnam demands halt to Chinese offshore drilling
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> 	 HANOI, March 16 (Reuter) - Vietnam has called on Beijing to  
> stop oil exploration in an area of the South China Sea which 
> Hanoi considers its own, the official Vietnam News Agency (VNA) 
> said on Sunday. 
> 	 VNA said Vietnam had lodged a formal complaint over Chinese  
> drilling close to the disputed Spratly Islands and its 
> coastguards had repeatedly warned vessels accompanying the oil 
> rig that they were encroaching on foreign territorial waters. 
> 	 ``The operation of the Chinese oil rig has seriously violated  
> Vietnam's sovereignty over its exclusive economic zone and 
> continental shelf,'' VNA said, quoting a letter which was sent to 
> the Chinese embassy in Hanoi on March 10. 
> 	 ``Vietnam demands the Chinese side stop the operation of the  
> Kan Tan III oil rig and withdraw it from the exclusive zone and 
> the continental shelf of Vietnam,'' the letter said. 
> 	 ``The note stresses that China's violation...runs counter to  
> the fine development trend of the friendship and cooperation 
> between the two countries and caused bad effects on the progress 
> of the ongoing negotiation to solve border and territorial 
> issues between the two countries,'' VNA added. 
> 	 It said the oil rig and tugboat were moved on March 7 into  
> an area 64.5 nautical miles off Chan Nay Dong cape, halfway down 
> the Vietnamese coast. 
> 	 Vietnam and China, which share a long history of mutual  
> suspicion, have discussed land and maritime border disputes 
> since they normalised relations in 1991. 
> 	 However, the two communist countries have made little  
> progress over the South China Sea, where they are among several 
> regional claimants to the potentially oil-rich Spratly and 
> Paracel island chains. 
> 	 Chinese and Vietnamese warships clashed briefly in the  
> Spratlys in the late 1980s and the dispute bubbled to the 
> surface again last year when Hanoi granted an oil exploration 
> and production contract near the archipelago to the U.S. firm 
> Conoco. 
> 	 A month later, China announced that it was expanding the  
> area of sea under its jurisdiction by more than 2.5 million sq 
> km (965,000 sq miles), and said the move ensured it abided by a 
> United Nations' convention on maritime law. 
> 	 VNA said that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs arranged hasty  
> meetings with Chinese officials after the Kan Tan III oil rig 
> started drilling and coastguards made repeated warnings. 
> 	 ``But Chinese ships ignored the warning and kept on drilling  
> operations,'' it said. 
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> 
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