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Saturday 27 June 2015

China moves controversial oil rig back towards Vietnam coast


BEIJING, Reuters

Vietnam's people remain embittered over a perceived history of Chinese bullying and territorial claims in the South China Sea, although China said at the time the rig was operating completely within its waters.

China has moved an oil rig at the center of last year's violent dispute with Vietnam closer to Vietnam's coast in the disputed South China Sea, just weeks ahead of the first visit by a chief of Vietnam's Communist Party to Washington.

The move, announced by China's maritime safety authorities, comes soon after the country indicated it was close to setting up new outposts in the maritime heart of Southeast Asia, as it nears completion of land reclamation in the South China Sea.

China claims most of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea, through which $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year. The Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also have overlapping claims.

China's deployment of the rig last year in what Vietnam called its exclusive economic zone and on its continental shelf, about 120 nautical miles off its coast, led to the worst breakdown in relations since a brief border war in 1979.

Vietnam's people remain embittered over a perceived history of Chinese bullying and territorial claims in the South China Sea, although China said at the time the rig was operating completely within its waters.


The rig now appears to be in an area where the exclusive economic zones (EEZ) of Vietnam and China overlap, but further away than last year, said Le Hong Hiep, a visiting fellow at Singapore's Institute of South East Asian Studies.

In an online statement posted on Thursday, China's Maritime Safety Administration said the 'Haiyang Shiyou 981' rig would carry out "ocean drilling operations" 75 nautical miles south of the resort city of Sanya on southern Hainan island.

Experts estimate the drilling site is about 104 miles (167 km) east of the Vietnam coast. The $1-billion rig will remain there from June 25 until August 20, the statement said, telling ships to stay 2,000 m (6,562 ft) away for safety reasons.

Vietnam's maritime authorities were monitoring the rig's placement, the website of the country's state-controlled Tuoi Tre newspaper on Friday quoted unidentified sources as saying.

The rig movement comes weeks before Vietnam's top leader, Nguyen Phu Trong, is expected to visit the United States, in the first such trip by a general secretary of the nation's Communist Party.

His mission is expected to further boost warming strategic ties between Washington and Hanoi - a relationship eyed warily in Beijing.

It also comes amid rising concerns at China's rapid creation of artificial islands on South China Sea reefs - construction criticized by the U.S. and protested by Vietnam.

However, Le Hong Hiep, the Singapore-based analyst, said he felt Hanoi would not protest as strongly as it did last year if China said the rig was placed within an EEZ claimed from Hainan Island rather than one from the hotly disputed Paracel Islands, as it did last year.

Vietnam and China agreed on an equal split of the maritime boundary of the Gulf of Tonkin in 2000 but have yet to agree on demarcating waters further south, near the rig's current site.

Earlier this year, the rig was drilling in the Andaman Sea off the coast of Myanmar, tackling the deepest exploration well it has so far undertaken, its owner, state energy group China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), said in an earlier statement.

CNOOC could not immediately be reached for comment on Friday.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard and Adam Rose in Beijing; Greg Torode in Hong Kong; Editing by James Pomfret and Clarence Fernandez)

18 comments:

Anonymous said...

A very good move by China ,the oil rig moves towards srok youn. Antagonize youn by chines is a good thing because it makes how it feels like being bullied by a more powerful boy like youn bullies Khmer to submission. Jackel

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

It's time for USA to bomb Cambodia with B52 bombers until the Khmer folks learn to shut up. You need to focus on improving yourself instead of talking loud in the International arena.

I think Khmer folks are a major security risk in America. I wish the US government would expel more Khmer back to Cambodia now that they are showing incline to China, the arch-rival to USA.

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...


Drgunzet,

Welcome back bad boy !
Where were you hiding ?
Bring it on with all you've got.

How mixed up are you? You meant the US bombed the heck out of Vietnam ?

Khmers WILL stop Yuon expansionism on Cambodia.
While we are building up our country strong, we intend to make
a military alliance with YOUR enemy China.


Got it ? Get it ? Good !!!

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

Read here, thousands of Cambodians got pushed out of their land by the Chinese land concession in Cambodia.

http://www.voacambodia.com/content/on-coast-chinese-development-pushes-thousands-from-land/1708815.html

And how many Cambodians have been pushed out by the Vietnamese land concession?

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

Hey drgunzet, you have been starving for this garbage comments for while but to you it seemed eternity, didn't it?. Be warned asshole, you will be pushed into oblivion again.
You want Cambodia bombed ,I dare you to pick up the phone and call US congress see what they say.
Khmer men are rapists and we only love to rape the youn whores.
Jackel

Anonymous said...

Hope the oil price goes down.

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

I begin to see the wisdom from the Thais in sacking the Khmer capital repeatedly, crushing the Khmer race to prevent trouble in the future. Look, today, Khmer is still causing trouble!

It's must be horrible and totally sad to be born as a Khmer. Yet, we continue to see these loud mouth Khmer trouble makers inciting hatred, war and killing.

Currently, Khmer race is the only known race in the world who openly incite killing other race. Do some google for key words such as: kap Yuon [chop Vietnamese], Cambodia rape, Khmer student fight, Cambodia decapitation, Cambodia machete, axe... You will see massive reports against such a small country with few people.

Sick, sick, sick.

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

Sick, sick, sick -Drgunzet-!!!

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

In 46 years from 1946 to 2000, Palestinian lost so much land to Israels. Check the map here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=palestinian&espv=2&biw=999&bih=531&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=5fePVa6qAYH9oASn35bYCQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAg#tbm=isch&q=palestinian+map&imgrc=vCngkPz-Vk73CM%3A

I think Khmer will lose so much land to other races. Cheers! I sincerely prefer the lighter-skin Asians to help the Khmer to own less land. Why own land when you can rent and work for the lighter-skin Asians who take care of you???

Some pretty Khmer girls might get lucky to be married off to some wealthy light-skin Asians. I was told about the Khmer women trying to marry the North Vietnamese commanders in Cambodia for extra food and protection. (I was in a labor team with 3 Cambodians so I was told with many stories in Cambodia.)

-Drgunzet-

Anonymous said...

To All Khmer and foreign readers:

Drgunzet is located in Boise, Idaho.

Khmer Yeourng

Anonymous said...

Drgunzet,what have you done to khmer girls?why do not you just leave or free them alone?here we talk about only racial discrimination why you always talk about khmer girls?they know nothing!!!and all your comment that said khmer girls wanted to marry Yuon guys is not real you are nothing but a good liar!at least khmer girls are better than Yuon who are no more than prostitues or whores!

Anonymous said...

Because Drgunzet does not like his vietnamese girl s pussies that why he always get khmer girls to involve with it.

Anonymous said...

I need three Khmer to make my tea.

Anonymous said...

Yes and soon Chinese will use Yuon head to make tea again and you will become Chinese slave again.enjoy it,dirty Yuon ??

Anonymous said...

Begin of Drgunzet's comment.

USA fought many wars in the world. USA sent bomber fleets to Germany, Japan, Korea, Kosovo, Europe, China, so on and so on. American bombers reigned supreme, they came, bombed, took some lost then went home. American bombers were never successfully challenged, never were turned back, never aborted their bombing mission.

Then American bombers met the Vietnamese air defense and for the first time, and the only time American bombers got turned back with a full bomb load.

(It is very dangerous for bombers to land with a full bomb load. Normally, when you land, your airplane slammed down to the run way and the bombs could detonate.)

The Vietnamese air defense manage to figure out how to use primitive SA-2 missiles and simple/inexpensive Mig-21 fighters to shoot down a lot of B-52 bombers. The Soviets were singing songs over this surprised results. For years, the world has been viewing Soviet equipment to be inferior, but in Vietnam, even the second-rate Soviet equipment can confront and defeat the top of the line American equipment.

What's important is the human operating the equipment. And the Vietnamese were proven to be superior operators.

USA lost a lot of the mighty B-52 bombers to Vietnam, and only to Vietnam.

We all know when USA bombed Cambodia with B-52, the Khmers first thought the God of thunder was punishing them. lol...

Once they were explained, the Khmer turned mad and became Khmer Rouges.

-Drgunzet-

P.S. Hey Khmer, sorry for the bombing. We thought it would be helpful for your evolution to make you better, but it was not. we cannot undo what we did. Once you were bombed, you got bombed.

All we could do is to perhaps to bomb you some more so that you can finally learn your lesson. Ok? If you are weak and poor, learn to lay low and don't cause any trouble.

Anonymous said...

To all Khmer and foreign readers:

Drgunzet (Yuon/Vietnamese poster) is located in Boise, Idaho.

Khmer Yeourng

Anonymous said...

Why taking it out on Khmer people -Drgunzet-. There is a better way to commit suicide -Drgunzet- @30 June 2015 at 15:08,

Use your life for a good cause - Join ISIS. You will be of invaluable Viet suicidal bomber for ISIS. ISIS has its network at Boise, Idaho. You will be welcoming with open arms by ISIS!!! Someone will be knocking on your door before you can say, Chet Reuy!!!

You may not have 2 days...someone will be knocking on you door before then!!!

Anonymous said...

Drgunzet you are nothing but a good liar!who listen to your story of vietnam war,you want your country to have civil war again??your vietnamese race should be put under Chinese control and become slaves again.if Yuon are that strong why Yuon dare not to invade China and yes Yuon can not steal China land even a little bit.