[Vnbiz] Truong Sa/Hoang Sa
Shane Wall
shane.wall at translingualexpress.com
Tue Jan 15 09:16:26 PST 2008
Hi Sis Thuy,
Don't feel too bad about your article getting 'beat out' by political
pieces at this time. When I was living in San Diego during a
presidential election in the mid-nineties, I still remember a radio news
bulletin (don't recall the station) which gave the local news, then went
on to give the International news which consisted of only 2 stories ...
where each of the US Presidential candidates were campaigning on that
day!!! IMHO, the US has always seemed to be an unhealthily 'inward
looking' society.
Plug-away sister, this story is NOT going to go away any time soon!
Shane
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Thuy Reed wrote:
> [ Vietnam Business Forum ]
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Dear Brothers and Sisters,
> The enclosed article was written for the LA Times. It was beat out by
> pieces about the race issue in 2008 election. This is my attempt to
> reach the outside world. May I share it here?
> L&P,
> Thuy Reed
>
> */"Ware, Diedre" <Diedre.Ware at latimes.com>/* wrote:
>
> Thank you for your submission to the Los Angeles Times OpEd page.
> Unfortunately, we are unable to use your piece. We do thank you
> for considering The Times and wish you luck in placing it elsewhere.
> Thank you,
> Diedre A. Ware
> Asst. to the Editor
> OpEd and Sunday Current
> 213 237-7939
> fax 213 237-7968
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Thuy Reed [mailto:newvietwomen at yahoo.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, January 07, 2008 11:43 AM
> *To:* oped at latimes.com
> *Subject:* Att.: Nicholas Goldberg/The Disputed Spratlys
>
> *Coming On Strong, With Her Neighbors*
> Illuminating China�€(tm)s Weakness
> by Thuy Reed
> As if to test the water, within two weeks China announced and
> withdrew plans to set up a governmental unit of county level, on
> the two uninhabited ar chipelagos i n the South China Sea that are
> currently claimed in full or in part by China, Vietnam, Taiwan,
> Brunei, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
> There have been talks at the international level concerning the
> ownership of
> these claims in New York and elsewhere. The United States has
> reiterated that we will not take sides, as well as our intention
> to keep that part of the Pacific Rim fluid to all. According to
> Carl Thayer, a long time Vietnam watcher of the Australian Defense
> Force Academy, China holds an edge over other claimants in this
> adverse taking of possession, for no nation in the region wishes
> to have a military confrontation with China.
> Neither would Beijing is looking to war. The entire episole was
> meant to whipe up some nationalistic sentiment to lift their minds
> from their many troubles at home.
> The Spratlys island chain is about 25 nautical miles from
> Vietnam�€(tm)s seaside resort Vung Tau, and
> is laced together by reefs and atolls with over 100 islets. The
> Paracels, taken by the Chinese forcibly in 1974 from the former
> South Vietnam, is about 17 nautical miles from Da Nang and about
> one third the size of the other archipelago. During the Colonial
> Period, France and the then ruling dynasty of China signed a
> series of treaties inscribing the two archipelagos as territories
> of French Indochina. Japan occupied both during the Pacific War
> and returned them to the French Protectorate Government.
> Economically speaking, both are considered to be teeming with sea
> life and have potential for large oil and gas reserves. National
> security speaking, Vietnam would be closed off from the world if
> both areas are controlled b y an unfriendly nation.
> No other country in the world holds a more violent history against
> the people of Vietnam than their giant northern neighbor. It goes
> as far back as 111 years before Christ, and as recently as in 1998
> where over 50 Vietnamese sailors were killed
> in a clash on one of the Spratlys. Yet, the Ministry of Foreign
> Affairs in China is issuing a diplomatic complaint, and making
> veiled threats about weakened ties, in response to rallies held in
> Vietnam against China�€(tm)s creeping policy.
> In 1999, about the same time Congressman Christopher Cox reported
> to the United States Congress that 13 of
> China�€(tm)s intercontinental nuclear
> warheads were aimed at American cities, President Jiang Zemin
> penned and distributed worldwide an article, trying to egg and
> shame the United Sta tes and Russia to cut down nuclear warheads,
> with an opening that stated �€oedisarmament
> should not become a tool for stronger nations to control weaker
> ones.�€ÂÂÂÂ
> Well, neither should encroachment become a tool for stronger
> nations to grab land from peaceful and weaker nations. Pick on
> someone your own size, China!
> In fact, just because of her size, China should conduct herself
> with civility towards the neighboring countries. She needs them to
> survive. No, this has nothing to do with the fact that practically
> every household item in the world is made in that country. It is
> about too many mouths to feed in a country that suffers perpetual
> drought and shortage of food.
> The People�€(tm)s Republic of China deserves
> credit for staging the great c omeback story of the century. It
> took sh eer dedication and wise choices to bring China up from
> destruction of historical proportions -- first by
> Japan�€(tm)s attempt to widen her sphere of
> influence and then by China�€(tm)s own
> domestic revolutionary agendas.
> And thanks to the world�€(tm)s enormous
> desires for all the inexpensive ready made goods that her people
> can produce, she is now rich enough to lend money even to the
> United States of America. Though one would have thought that in
> making herself into a supplier of household goods to the world,
> China has already figured out in
> today�€(tm)s world we all make it and break
> it together.
> As a matter of fact, Beijing should take advantage of the
> situation -- enjoying a superpower�€(tm)s
> status without shouldering superpower�Ã
> ¢Â‚¬(tm)s responsibilities -- and go totally high-tech in
> manufact ure as well as in agriculture to undo the rapid
> progression of desertification of arable land in China caused by
> drought and by over herding.
> Fixing what ails China is a better way to galvanize nationalistic
> feeling. On the other hand, instigating a confrontation instead of
> offering a solution where all claimants can prosper together,
> Beijing has shown that she is not ready to be a global leader. She
> might be able to host the Olympics, but unable to provide
> solutions even to regional problems. This aggressive move cheapens
> China�€(tm)s nationalistic claim on Taiwan.
> Thuy Reed, Founder/Director
> *New Viet Women Foundation*
> 569 W 23rd Street
> San Pedro CA 90731
> Tel.: 310-521-8616
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