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Something I wrote 4 years ago about similar protests four years ago, which combined mass workers riots against exploitative Chinese and Taiwanese bosses, with oppositional movements which focus their attack on the CPV around the idea that the party is "betraying the Vietnamese nation" by not going to war with China over their rocky islands dispute (notwithstanding the fact that they do have a case in as much as Imperial China is the undoubted aggressor in the islands): https://mihalisvn.blogspot.com/2018/06/normal-0-false-false-false-en-au-x-none.html (I have no idea why it produces sch a weird url) On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Louis Proyect via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > NY Times, June 12, 2018 > Vietnamese Protest an Opening for Chinese Territorial Interests > By Richard C. Paddock > > BANGKOK — Anti-China protests erupted throughout Vietnam and more than 100 > people were arrested late Sunday after demonstrators stormed a provincial > government building east of Ho Chi Minh City, the local news media reported. > > Many Vietnamese harbor resentment against China, Vietnam’s northern > neighbor, and were said to be angry about a measure that would allow the > leasing of land to foreigners for 99 years in three special economic zones. > > The government, which was scheduled to adopt the measure this week, said it > would delay action until later this year, according to media reports. > > Hundreds of protesters carrying signs and banners took to the streets in > Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and several other cities over the weekend. > > On Sunday evening, hundreds of demonstrators in Binh Thuan Province defied > tear gas and fire hoses to storm the office of the People’s Committee. The > authorities said that dozens of police officers were injured in clashes and > that the protesters burned cars and vandalized the building. > > The Vietnamese public was already angry over China’s claim to much of the > South China Sea, including coastal waters that Vietnam claims. Now, many > fear that the proposed economic zones would be dominated by Chinese > investors, including possibly state-owned companies. > > Past protests against China have become a focal point for a range of > grievances against the Vietnamese government, including the seizure of > farmland to build malls and factories. > > Sunday’s protests were reminiscent of riots that broke out in 2014 after > China placed an oil rig in waters off Vietnam. The government initially > allowed peaceful protests, but they quickly grew out of control, and more > than 200 factories owned by Chinese and other foreign companies were looted > and set ablaze around Vietnam. > > The worst rioting occurred at a steel factory being built in Ha Tinh > Province by a subsidiary of Taiwan’s giant Formosa Plastics Group, where the > company employed thousands of laborers from mainland China. Protesters > stopped buses, pulled off Chinese passengers and beat them. Four people were > killed. > > Two years later, the same factory caused one of Vietnam’s largest > environmental disasters when it flushed cyanide and other chemicals through > its waste pipeline, killing marine life along a 120-mile stretch of > coastline. > > Many people were sickened from eating poisoned fish and the coastal fishing > economy collapsed, prompting numerous demonstrations along Vietnam’s central > coast. > > In November, a 22-year-old blogger, Nguyen Van Hoa, was sentenced to seven > years in prison for producing videos and writing about the protests. > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mkaradjis%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
