Dear MEL School’s
Topic Readers,
"Aftermath of riots will cost"
Another warning or threatening message from
China. The above is a headline in Chinese Daily when Vietnamese protests against
China’s provocative activates in the South China Sea spread and went into
violence, killing two Chinese citizens and injured hundreds. China sent ships
and aircraft to evacuate 3,000 citizens from the angry country which claimed
that China had 119 ships in the area including warships, coast guard vessels
and fishing boats and some of the ships had been provoking the Vietnamese
vessels by ramming and firing water cannons at them.
China has laid claim to most of the South
China Sea and been causing disputes with several of its neighbors in the
region, including the Philippines and Malaysia. It is also in a bitter dispute
with Japan over a group of tiny islands in the East China Sea.
The Chinese semi-state run media complained that with distorted information published by Vietnam's state-run media, the
largest anti-China demonstrations in 10 years have been held throughout Vietnam,
and anti-foreigner antagonism mixed with unhappy workers will be harder to
control and will worry foreign companies. It also warned that "a major
downturn in foreign investment would be a big economic blow". Don’t these
claims sound like the ones heard in other neighboring countries and
international communities when they had similar but more violent protests and
riots fired and damaged made-in-Japanese products, looted and torched Japanese offices
and stores in their own country?
Enjoy reading and learning what and how
China claims when their actions and activities are under fire.
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