China Builds Military Airstrip in Disputed South China Sea

[Viet]

We are same people,Mongolian,Japanese,chinese,Vietnamese even Sikkimese.Not sure about Korean.

not sure about Koreans? you have humour. sometimes I got problems to distinguish them from Japanese.

 

[Keel]

We are same people,Mongolian,Japanese,chinese,Vietnamese even Sikkimese.Not sure about Korean.

Do you have some bad experience in China?

 

[dichoi]

You're too incompetent to refute professor Kelley's points,do you have a PHD in Chinese history?

The texts that he sources from were written by Vietnamese,unless you are willing to spurn your own history.

The fact remains that Chinese deities were worshiped throughout Vietnamese history,something which contradicts the narrative that Chinese are the polar opposite of Vietnamese.

you are kid.

some time I can't trust on what Confucius or Mao Zedong said too.

 

[Jlaw]

You're too incompetent to refute professor Kelley's points,do you have a PHD in Chinese history?

The texts that he sources from were written by Vietnamese,unless you are willing to spurn your own history.

The fact remains that Chinese deities were worshiped throughout Vietnamese history,something which contradicts the narrative that Chinese are the polar opposite of Vietnamese.

Yup, i can attest to that. viets worship kuan yin and GuanYu, Chinese deities. i see them at a former viet friend's parents house.

 

[vtnsx]

Build these on the reefs.
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Good spot to get bombed. Just saying. But Chinese help Vietnamese government built that island. After being bombed, it then can be used as a US military base. LOL

 

[terranMarine]

Well Japan thought it was a fabulous idea to bomb pearl harbor guess what happened afterwards.

 

[Jlaw]

Well Japan thought it was a fabulous idea to bomb pearl harbor guess what happened afterwards.

It was the brilliant mind of one of the great Japanese general whose name escape me now decided to attack US.

 

[terranMarine]

It was the brilliant mind of one of the great Japanese general whose name escape me now decided to attack US.

Isoroku Yamamoto (admiral Yamamoto)

 

[dichoi]

Yup, i can attest to that. viets worship kuan yin and GuanYu, Chinese deities. i see them at a former viet friend's parents house.

it was made by Hua people who were living in Vietnam.... or some small numbers of confucius elites, not related to ordinary people at all.

You can see Lenin or Indira Gandi statue in Hanoi now. does it mean viets worship Russian, Indian ?

 

[sicsheep]

The fact remains that Chinese deities were worshiped throughout Vietnamese history,something which contradicts the narrative that Chinese are the polar opposite of Vietnamese.

Good spot to get bombed. Just saying. But Chinese help Vietnamese government built that island. After being bombed, it then can be used as a US military base. LOL

and we thank you for looking after our southern province of Vietnam, we will take it back soon and you are just looking after it for us for now.

 

[Soryu]

Yup, i can attest to that. viets worship kuan yin and GuanYu, Chinese deities. i see them at a former viet friend's parents house.

There's many Chinese ethnic in Vietnam, and they brought up their faith to Vietnamese cultural stream.

 

[Beidou2020]

Build military bases all over the SCS and station SAM units.

SCS must be made into a private Chinese lake.

 

[TaiShang]

Beijing finishes runway on South China Sea isle

BEIJING — In a move to assert its territorial claim over its islands in the South China Sea, Beijing has completed a runway for military aircraft on one island also claimed by Vietnam, Chinese state-run media reported.

The newly-built facility stretches across Yongxing Island said China’s Xinhua news agency.

The Xisha Islands, known as Paracels in English, is a group of islands, reefs, banks and other maritime features in the South China Sea.

It is controlled by China, and also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan, with animosity between Beijing and Hanoi rising this year over Chinese construction and oil exploration there.

The building of the runway is Beijing’s latest physical assertion of control in the area, two years after it declared a city named Sansha centred on Woody Island to administer vast swathes of the South China Sea.

Vital shipping routes run through the waters and they are believed to sit atop vast oil and gas deposits. Parts of the South China Sea are also claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan.

The Xinhua report gave few details about the runway, except to say it was completed on Yongxing Island, the largest of the Xisha islands with a land area of 2.6 sq km. Pictures accompanying the statement showed the runway running across the breadth of the island, with part of the airstrip surrounded by construction cranes and clear blue water.

“With the completion and continued improvements to the runway on Yongxing, military aircraft can be based in the Paracels and greatly improve Chinese defence capabilities in the Xisha and Nansha islands,” Xinhua said, using the Chinese names for the Paracels and Spratlys, a separate island chain.

China previously built a school on Woody Island for 40 children whose parents work there, the state-run media said in June.

The island’s main attractions are the Xisha Maritime Museum and military history museums.

China and Vietnam have had frequent run-ins over the disputed islands, with tensions running high when Beijing placed an oil rig in disputed waters near the Paracel islands in May, sparking deadly anti-Chinese riots in Vietnam. China removed the oil rig from the waters in July.

 

[EastSea]

and we thank you for looking after our southern province of Vietnam, we will take it back soon and you are just looking after it for us for now.

china is going to collapse soon. Tibetan, Ujigur , Mongolian. Manchurian etc will regain independence from China.

Go on Hongkong people !

Build military bases all over the SCS and station SAM units.

SCS must be made into a private Chinese lake.

China lake is fully with Viet, Pinoy, and US warships in front of your door,

 

[SamDNguyen]

Sigh,you simply don't get it do you,modern day Vietnamese historiography is built on interwoven lies perpetuated by Vietnamese nationalism.

You don't address any of my points,all you do is shift the goalpost when you're unable to provide a satisfactory answer.

The various Yue didn't see eye to eye,neither did they have a common identity,I doubt modern day Anatolian Turks are representative of the Gokturks,or FYROM representative of Macedonia I could go on and on the point is simply because two political entities share the same name doesn't mean they are by any chance related.

Kinh wasn't even the preferred ethnonym during the Nguyen dynasty tell me why don't you address this?

Qing never called itself Man Qing,neither did they consider themselves foreign.

When Chinese entities ruled northern Vietnam they never bothered embracing native culture,worship indigenous gods or situate their capital within modern day Vietnam.

China recognizes the waters within the 9 dash nine to be Chinese therefore the fishermen are intruders should the Vietnamese government apologize for repressing the Hoa,I doubt either one will as these two countries are too mired in nationalism.

Chill bro. Same can be said about Chinese history if you really want to argue. I don't want to disrespect the person who opened this thread by derailing it.

Don't fool yourself about the Qing dynasty history. We still have many records of Man Qing Dynasty. You can request them from the descendants of the Nguyen Dynasty. Contact the Grand Master of The Order of the Dragon of Annam in France. Google them. They have an English website.

This must be your favorite subject. You should consider opening your on discussion thread.

About the East Sea, this has turned us into enemy. I guess this can only be settled through war. We will fight it to the end. May the sound of Me Ling Drums beat forever within our hearts.

Why the Nguyen worships Tam Hoang? This worship goes back thousands of years before Nguyen Dynasty. They are ancestor of Hung King and of the Viet. I know Chinese worships them too. De (Emperor) Minh is third grandchild generation of agricultural spirit, Thang Nong (Shennong). His son is De Nghi. De Minh while patrolling to the South, to Ngu Linh, married Vu Tien’s daughter who gave birth to the first Hung King (Kinh Duong Vuong). De Minh establishs De Nghi that make septentrional King and bestowed Kinh for Kinh Duong Vuong to manage the South, called Xich Quy country. King Duong Vuong married with Dong Dinh Quan's daughter named Long Nu (Dragon Girl, Spirit) and born Lac Long Quan aka Hung Hien Vuong, the second Hung King of Hong Bang Dynasty.

In addition to my post above, Ma Vien (Ma Yuan) is worshipped by Hoa people in Vietnam. The Nguyen and other Viet Dynasties respect their people and their gods. Every time China get into a civil war, Chinese peasants and exile royals would head South to seek a safe haven in Vietnam. We would take them in and they are free to leave to go back to their home land once peace and order returns to China. They bring their religions and stories with them. Vietnamese are not prejudice. The Chinese share the stories of their heroes and we listen and help them built their shrines so they may worship their gods. This adds a bit of income to the village. Hence, we are called An Nam (peaceful south). Nostalgia is a part of Human survival mechanism. By allowing Hoa refugees to focus on the positive familiarity of the past it helped the Hoa refugees mask rapid changes, which allows them to be more optimistic about the future and help them cope with the present.