Knight of Tang
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I should say you are quite reasonable on this point, and I also mentioned that Vietnam has long been treated as a comrade brother of China in spite of some unhappy memories in our education system and media. What we learned more about Vietnam is the age of cooperation but not the confrontation. It is some extremists' words in this forum that changed my viewpoint drastically towards this country and her people.
Back to your topic, the problems on the floor now are mostly coming from the complicated history of modern China, not a single government is able to take the responsibility of losing control of its territory that has been claimed for years, especially some areas like SCS that are of crucial strategical importance to China's national interest. It's quite understandable that conflicts arises when several interests are overlapping, it's decided by the geographical factors that cannot be changed. I agree with you that it's not likely to be a perfect solution of these problems in SCS in the visible future, especially as Vietnam now is going closely with US and Japan. Therefore, hope for the best and plan for the worst, let's see where we are leaded to.
Back to your topic, the problems on the floor now are mostly coming from the complicated history of modern China, not a single government is able to take the responsibility of losing control of its territory that has been claimed for years, especially some areas like SCS that are of crucial strategical importance to China's national interest. It's quite understandable that conflicts arises when several interests are overlapping, it's decided by the geographical factors that cannot be changed. I agree with you that it's not likely to be a perfect solution of these problems in SCS in the visible future, especially as Vietnam now is going closely with US and Japan. Therefore, hope for the best and plan for the worst, let's see where we are leaded to.
Personally I won´t go so far to say China is our enemy, so most of Vietnamese. We are just wary of China and its policy. In fact, it is stupid to make China as enemy, considering the unbalance of power. As I said before, Vietnam as a whole always wants a good relationship with China, but it proves as impossible in the reality, because Vietnam follows many foreign policies which are in conflict with China.