South East Asia sea

[huy.duong@ctsu.ox.ac.uk]

Dear friends,

I propose that the rightful name of the body of water surrounded by
Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, the Phillippines,
and China, ie where the ratio of SEA nations to non-SEA nations is 7 to 1,
be THE SOUTH EAST ASIA SEA.

I propose that Vietnam campaigns for this among the other ASEAN countries.

This name is more politically and geographically correct that the misnomer
`South China Sea'. This name is in accordance with the spirit of
cooperation that will help South East Asia to build peace and prosperity.
This name emphasises the fact that South East Asia against any one nation
thinking that it owns the sea. Such greed is a threat to peace, cooperation
and prosperity, not only for the globally important region of South East Asia, 
but also further afield, eg the trade routes between Japan, Korea and the Middle 
East, Africa and Europe.

Huy