China vs Vietnam War 1979 ( Battle of Cao Bang)
Back______________________________ ____________ In 1992, the PRC promulgated a law stipulating that any foreign military ship or vessel on scientific missions that travels through the Eastern Sea must obtain a permission from the Chinese authorities or they will be sunk. After that, the PRC issued an announcement forbidding Vietnamese fishermen to work in the Eastern Sea or conduct military exercises in the region. Last July 2007, a Chinese Naval unit killed and wounded Vietnamese fishermen near Spratly island, and sank Vietnamese fishing boats because of "encroachment of its waters." The killing took place in front of a Vietnamese naval unit while it stood still and watched. China claimed that there is a "mutual understanding" between Vietnam and China over the Chinese sovereignty of the region. Recently in Nov. 2007, when China National Assembly set up Sansha, hundreds of Vietnamese students at universities of Hanoi and Saigon protested. In reaction to the protests, a spokesman of China ministry of foreign affairs chided Vietnam leadership over the fact. Vietnam replied that the demonstrations were spontaneous not sponsor by the CPV. And after the incident, hundreds of secret police were mobilized to suppress the move of the students, to satisfy "its master" sitting in Beijing. The suppression is going on in Hanoi and Saigon. Students and journalists have been harassed, including physical abuses by police, and imprisoned in compliance with CPCs demands. ______________________________ ____________ In January, in fact, has added to a consistent pattern of Chinese southern expansionism: conquest of the Paracel Islands in 1974; invasion of the northern provinces of Vietnam in 1979 and subsequent annexation of 8,000 square kilometers of borderland; occupation of the Spratley archipelagoes the same year and acquisition of 12,000 square kilometers of territorial waters in the Vinh Bac Bo conceded by Hanoi under the 2000 Vinh Bac Bo Pact. The new treaty, ratified without debate by Vietnam's rubber-stamp National Assembly last June, replaced Meridian 108 E. with a central meridian located west of the original line of demarcation, thus reducing Vietnam territorial waters to about 53 percent. As a result, Vietnam lost approximately 12,000 square kilometers of territorial waters. ______________________________ ____________ The Chinese invaders moved deep - sometimes as far as 40 kilometers - into Vietnamese territory. They occupied 23 cities and towns and destroyed some entirely. After 17 days, the CPC declared that the objective of the exercise had been achieved and on March 13, the Chinese army went home. However, Chinese troops were still seen occupying strategic hills and positions which they described as an "area belonging to the Vietnamese territory". After the war, a Vietnamese customs office was relocated 480 meters south from the previous site at the Friendship Gate. Though diplomatic relations were reestablished in November 1991, land grabbing by the Chinese went on. In May 1992 an armed conflict erupted on Highway 1, in Lang Son province, at a location not far from the Friendship Gate because a Chinese military unit had implanted a new border marker 400 meters inside Vietnamese territory. As of July 1992, the Chinese forces had taken over 36 locations along the border, an area of 8,000 hectares. In subsequent years, Chinese troops would at times cross the border, drive Vietnamese peasants from their villages in the Cao Bang and Lang Son provinces and bum their homes. In some areas, after evicting Vietnamese peasants from their lands, the Chinese would bring their own people and resettle them there. This land grabbing by the Chinese goes back to the fifties. In 1954, the CPC sent workers to help Vietnam build a railroad from Hanoi to the Friendship Gate. Chinese workers relocated a border marker 300 meters inside Vietnam. Hanoi took it as a mistake by the Chinese workers but the CFIC stated that the position of the marker was exactly where it should be, on the joint border. This conflict was never resolved even though the two countries were close friends during the following two decades. ______________________________ ____________ History has a curious way of repeating itself. In ancient times, Vietnamese kings periodically sent ambassadorial delegations to the Peking Imperial Court to pay tributes to their powerful masters to the north. This practice obviously is alive and well today, with two major differences: The old kings and emperors have been replaced by authoritarian rulers, and precious stones and ivories have been replaced by territorial concessions.
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