{"id":4746,"date":"2019-07-14T12:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T10:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/east-sea.de\/?p=4746"},"modified":"2019-07-17T22:22:23","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T20:22:23","slug":"english-south-china-sea-beijing-shouldnt-treat-vietnam-like-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/2019\/07\/14\/english-south-china-sea-beijing-shouldnt-treat-vietnam-like-the-philippines\/","title":{"rendered":"South China Sea: Beijing Shouldn’t Treat Vietnam Like The Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beijing shouldn\u2019t treat Vietnam the same way it treats the Philippines. When it comes to the South China Sea disputes, that is. It won\u2019t work, and it won\u2019t help the economic integration of the region either.<\/p>\n

Vietnam doesn\u2019t see a \u201cfriend\u201d in China, the same way President Rodrigo Duterte does.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s the message Hanoi sent to Beijing this week by deploying its forces to confront Chinese vessels, which entered disputed territories.<\/p>\n

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Beijing has scored a big diplomatic victory in recent years. It has managed to turn the Philippines from an adversary to a \u201cfriend,\u201d and advance its plans to turn the South China Sea into its own sea.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Back in April of 2018,\u00a0Duterte reversed his earlier\u00a0decision to raise the Philippine flag in disputed islands, following Beijing\u2019s \u201cfriendly\u201d\u00a0advice.<\/p>\n

A year before that incident, the Philippines and its close ally, the U.S.,\u00a0scored an international arbitration ruling that China has no historic title over the waters of the South China Sea.\u00a0Yet Duterte didn\u2019t dare enforce it. Instead,\u00a0he\u00a0sided with Beijing on the dispute, and sought a \u201cdivorce\u201d from the U.S.<\/p>\n

Apparently, President Duterte was hoping that befriending China would save peace in the region, and help bring Chinese investments to the Philippines economy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why the Philippines has been reluctant to confront Beijing in the face of many provocations within its own territories. As discussed in previous pieces here. Philippines keeps on paying for Duterte\u2019s flip-flops.<\/p>\n

Recently, Beijing has begun to start trying the same strategy with Vietnam. This week, \u00a0President Xi Jinping met with visiting Chairwoman of the National Assembly of Vietnam Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, \u201ccalling on the two countries to promote friendship and deepen cooperation to lift bilateral ties to a new level,\u201d according to a Global Times editorial.<\/p>\n

What about the South China Sea disputes? \u201cAs for maritime issues, the president stressed that both sides should act in line with the fundamental interests of the two countries and their peoples, earnestly implement the consensus reached by the leaders of the two parties and the two countries, and safeguard peace and stability at sea with concrete actions,\u201d says the editorial.<\/p>\n

The editorial stops short of calling Vietnam a \u201cfriendly\u201d neighbor, which is the way President Xi called the Philippines during his 2018 visit in Manila. \u201cAs friendly neighbors across the sea, China and the Philippines enjoy geographical proximity and a strong bond that links the two peoples and cultures,\u201d said Xi in another Global Times editorial.<\/p>\n

By contrast, Vietnam doesn\u2019t share Beijing\u2019s view that the South China Sea is China\u2019s own sea. Part of it belongs to Vietnam, and it has a strategy to defend every inch of it, as evidenced by the recent naval stand-off between the two countries.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Vietnam has been pushing for a pact that will outlaw many of China\u2019s ongoing activities in the South China Sea.\u00a0\u00a0Like the building of artificial islands, blockades and offensive weaponry such as missile deployments; and the Air Defense Identification Zone\u2014a conduct code China initiated back in 2013.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s still unclear whether Vietnam\u2019s hard stance against Beijing will save peace in the end, one thing is clear: Beijing\u2019s grand South China Sea ambitions undermine the economic integration of the region and add to investor anxiety.<\/p>\n

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing shouldn\u2019t treat Vietnam the same way it treats the Philippines. When it comes to the South China Sea disputes, that is. It won\u2019t work, and it won\u2019t help the economic integration of the region either. Vietnam doesn\u2019t see a \u201cfriend\u201d in China, the same way President Rodrigo Duterte does. That\u2019s the message …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[97,1,37,38],"tags":[182],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4748,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4746\/revisions\/4748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/east-sea.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}