Please, find pasted below, my complete analysis based on of my knowledge of this country and Asian countries. and the new 'Love affairs' between the USA and Vietnam, as initiated by Hillary Clinton, and its implications for the survival of Cambodia. Warm regards. N Tith
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vietnam seeks US support in China dispute By Ben Bland in HanoiThe Financial Times: Published: June 12 2011 14:29 | Last updated: June 12 2011 21:36 http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/05e83b34-94db-11e0-a648-00144feab49a.html?ftcamp=rss&ftcamp=crm/email/2011612/nbe/AsiaMorningHeadlines/product#axzz1P7R9CQ8t– ----------------------------------------- Q/A on the dispute http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13748349 (Comments: this article shows how Vietnam is trying to use the USA’s fear of China’s rising power in Asia and in the world. As an American citizen, I can agree or this agree with this decision for the USA to be using Vietnam as an ally to fight the rising power of China in Asia, and in the world, per extension. First and foremost, Vietnam is still a communist country, so is China. Second, China was the supporter of Vietnam during the Vietnam War when the USA was the main aggressor. Since the end of the Vietnam War, relations between China and the USA have been improving progressively, in all fields. While US-Vietnam relations have also been improving. With a rapid improvement growth and importance of China in economic, diplomatic, as well as in military terms, the USA has felt threatened by this rising power of China. In this context, with Hillary Clinton as the secretary of State, she initiated “the return to Asia” of the USA to counter the perceived threat from the rising power of China. Also remembering that Hillary Clinton and her husband, the ex-President Bill Clinton, are known anti-Vietnam War advocates, thus making them a natural friend of Vietnam. It is against this background that as a citizen of the USA that I am analyzing this new love affair with Vietnam initiated by Hillary Clinton.Also important is the understanding of China as a new rising power of the world and especially in Asia. The most informative way to assess this China rising power is the ask the question whether or not China is by tradition and historical records is an imperialist country. To answer this important background information on China is to retrace and understand the role of the China and its relations with other countries in the world and especially those within China’s territorial proximity, known as the tributary system. The tributary system is based on the fact that China considers itself as a major and dominant power in Asia, and it expected that those neighboring of China would pay recognize China as such, and as a recognition of that power of China these neighboring countries are demanded to pay tribute to China in gift and trip to pay respect the emperor of China, living in to the center of power in China, be they Beijing, or any other capital cities during the pong and turbulent history of China. In other words, China was not interested in territorial conquest, but simply in having the recognition China as the major power in Asia by those neighboring countries. In other words, China never used “Hard Power,” but only “Soft Power” as its means to deal with her neighbors (For more details on these concept please, read “Soft Power, Hard Power and Leadership By Joseph S. Nye, Jr.”On the contrary, Vietnam is known to have modified the Chinese “Soft Power’ tributary system to the “Hard-Power” based strategy to conquer its neighbors namely Champa and Kampuchea Krom to escape the Chinese threat to it. (For more details on the Chinese tributary system, in its original version and as modified by Vietnam, please, go to this link from my web site; http://cambodiana.org/Vietnamtributarysystemwithdeadlytwist.aspxIt is against this historical and ideological background that the article should be read. In this context, it is clear that given all the major domestic problems that the USA is having such as the economic depression, high national debt problem, Middle East intervention and its high and rising costs, the political problems as a result of the political dominance of “too large to fail” financial institutions, and its impact on the social instability of this country, the USA is in no measure to venture into another war in Asia, especially based on the wrong assumption of China as a threat to its neighbors, while in reality it is Vietnam which the real threat to Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand, therefore to the whole Southeast Asian countries.It is in this background that Hillary Clinton policy of rapprochement with Vietnam is not only wrong but immoral. More importantly, it is not in the best interests of the United States of America.Those who still think that Cambodia can count on the USA to ward off Vietnam’s threat to Cambodia is not only naive, but totally ignorant of the reality of the political and diplomatic situation in Asia and in the world. Naranhkiri Tith Ph.D. Washington DC. June 16, 2011) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vietnam has called on the US and other nations to help resolve the escalating territorial disputes in the resource-rich South China Sea, in a move likely to anger Beijing, which opposes what it sees as outside interference.Tensions between China and Vietnam continued to rise over the weekend, ahead of live-fire drills planned by Vietnam’s navy on Monday on an islet around 20 miles from the coast of central Vietnam, which Hanoi described as “routine”. N EDITOR’S CHOICEPilling: Asia’s quiet anger with ‘big, bad’ China - Jun-01 Vietnam and China oil clashes intensify - May-29China defends naval actions - Jun-05US warns Beijing over South China Sea - Jun-04In depth: China shapes the world - Apr-25China and Philippines tensions mount - Jun-01Stirred by a number of maritime confrontations with China over recent weeks, hundreds of Vietnamese took part in rare anti-China protests on Sunday for the second straight weekend, with the usually draconian police allowing the demonstrations to take place. “China is running an information campaign to blind people,” said Pham Gia Minh, a 55-year-old investment consultant who attended a protest outside the Chinese embassy in Hanoi. “We have to let people understand that we want peace but when the aggressor comes we will stand up to them.” In addition to China and Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan claim some or all of the territory in the contested area of the South China Sea, which is believed to contain vast oil and gas reserves and incorporates key trade routes and abundant fish stocks.The Vietnamese government has ratcheted up its rhetoric in recent weeks amid growing public disquiet over perceived maritime bullying by China, which dominated Vietnam for 1000 years and fought a brief but bloody border war against it in 1979. At the weekend Vietnam’s foreign ministry said that it would “welcome” efforts by the US and other nations to help resolve the South China Sea dispute and maintain peace and stability. Such sentiments are unlikely to go down well in Beijing, which insists that the long-running row over the South China Sea must be resolved on a purely bilateral basis. China reacted angrily last July when Hillary Clinton, US secretary of state, insisted that the South China Sea was of strategic importance to the US and offered to act as a mediator. The US said on Friday that is was “troubled” by the latest developments in the South China Sea, with Mark Toner, a state department spokesman, warning that “shows of force” only increase tensions, which have been on the rise in recent weeks.Hanoi and Beijing have traded accusations of infringement of sovereignty and harassment of their fishing and oil exploration vessels and China has also clashed with the Philippines in a similar fashion.“China’s behaviour has gone from assertive to aggressive,” said Ian Storey, a fellow at the Institute for Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and an expert on maritime security in the South China Sea.In the latest incident, last Thursday, Vietnam claimed that, for the second time in recent weeks, Chinese boats had trespassed onto its territory and deliberately tried to cut undersea cables deployed by a ship hired by PetroVietnam, the state oil and gas monopoly. China dismissed the allegations, claiming that the boats were fishing in its sovereign waters when they were “illegally chased away by armed Vietnamese ships,” endangering the fishermen’s lives. The Chinese government remained silent on Sunday, but Hanoi’s latest move is likely to infuriate Beijing as China insists its territorial disputes in the South China Sea must be dealt with bilaterally. A year ago, Beijing decisively rejected remarks by Hillary Clinton in which the US secretary of state called peace in the region a US national interest and called for a multilateral approach in resolving the disputes.A regional security expert at National Defense University in Beijing called Hanoi’s latest move a provocation. “This is calculated to provoke a reaction in China which they can then dismiss as aggressive,” said the expert who declined to be named because he was not authorized to speak to foreign media.The growing tension in the South China Sea also triggered angry reactions among nationalist Chinese on the internet. ”If a single shell falls into Chinese waters, including disputed waters, we should shoot to kill. Can’t we do what North Korea can?” wrote one user on Tiexue, an online bulletin board popular with military enthusiasts and nationalist web users, in reaction to Vietnam’s plans for naval exercises in the area on Monday.Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2011. You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web ***************************** Kissinger's view in his new book titled "on China" (see review from this link ; http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/09/kissinger-and-china/ ), which just came out of print, in which he advised Obama not to confront China but to work with China for the benefit of the whole world. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. Please refrain from using foul language. Thank you for your understanding. Peace among us and in Cambodia. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/camdisc Learn more - http://www.cambodia.org
