Is Vietnam the Next Most Likely Hot Spot for Inter
Is Vietnam the Next Most Likely Hot Spot for International Flare-up?The news. It's an international David vs. Goliath scandal: Citizens of a smaller, less-populated country have taken to the streets in protest against a bullying superpower that has invaded their territory.
Sounds familiar, right? Welcome to Southeast Asia's version of the Ukraine-Russia crisis. Last week, a Chinese state-controlled oil drill allegedly set up shop in Vietnam's territorial waters, igniting an outcry throughout the country. The geopolitics of the situation echo the Crimea crisis, with Vietnamese anti-China demonstrators demanding that China withdraw and some analysts wondering if the U.S. will swoop in for an eventual rescue mission.
China appears to be provoking Vietnam. But this isn't your average big-brother-pushing-around-little-brother situation. Instead, Vietnam is proactively reacting to China in protest. There is a long history of contention between the two countries. The most recent flare-up occurred early Tuesday morning, when thousands of Vietnamese workers staged public demonstrations at several Chinese-owned factories and allegedly vandalized some of the factories as well, ABC reported.
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Vietnam has also fired back by ramming naval vessels into Chinese naval vessels, according to the NPR program The Takeaway. Additionally, on May 12, the Vietnamese Coast Guard's deputy chairman of the political department said, "As many as 15 Chinese ships had sprayed a Vietnamese vessel at the site with water cannons." The deputy chairman refuted claims that the Vietnamese vessel fired back.
The communist country is generally quiet — in recent years there have only been a few dozen protests, which are usually squashed quickly by security forces, the Guardian reported. So the recent uprising is unusual, particularly since Vietnamese law enforcement is actually allowing the protests to continue and escalate.
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However, Morrow suggests that this was not intentional, but merely happenstance. The timing was right for China as a country to act and it took the opportunity to move in and drill. China's ultimate goal is dominance in the South China Sea, not to start a war. So the scenario is just one small step in China's long-term strategy. But if China continues to antagonize Vietnam like this, you have to wonder if persevering Vietnamese protesters could gain momentum that will eventually erupt on a global scale.
Nothing to worry about; just normal politics. China is to big to push around and they know it.
International law ... boundaries that have not been firmly established ... government-owned business (really- should any business also have an army!?) ... international treaties- those that exist and those that should.
Autocrats are opportunists ... "looks good to me" is usually enough for them to convince themselves they are right ... so authoritarian governments have the same manner of ethics.
I think this is a deliberate plan by China ... if they "live on the land" and protests fade away, they will show this as being proof that they own it.
So ... we protest ... we show that we cannot trust them ... and, over time ... our will is going to fade and we'll try to trust them again ... and then they'll move their next chess piece ... and we do this again.
Note: This is why the US embargo of Cuba remains... we haven't allowed the 'lack of trust' to fade.