Re: South East Asia sea

[Buulong Nguyen <buulong@dutmpw1.tudelft.nl>]

Good idea! Bravo!

On Thu, 20 Mar 1997 huy.duong@ctsu.ox.ac.uk wrote:

> 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
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