van56567 wrote:1st, They suddenly claim our 2 islands ( and a part of our east sea territory ) for their own with no suitable reason.
2nd, We got enough historical information, evidence,...ect to protect the ownership of our territory. They also got ones too but they're all fake and unacceptable
There are many negotiations but China still insist.
3rd, We don't want to be their enemy
A few questions:
Why is Chinese evidence unacceptable and fake, when in fact because of the location, it's far more likely that the islands have changed hands at various points and have been under the control of both? With this under consideration, why are Chinese evidence fake and unacceptable but Vietnamese ones trustworthy, if both countries want to push for an agenda? What I am getting at here is that if both sides want to push for a point of view, they will bring out evidence while trying to disprove the other side's, even if the other side's argument has merit.
Furthermore, why are the Vietnamese media demonising the Chinese when the Chinese media (from what I have seen on CCTV) do not play up tensions and instead try to focus on the positive relations between China and other countries? You say the Vietnamese people don't want the Chinese to be enemies, but in fact the Chinese people are the ones who are being confused by the hostile sentiments coming from Vietnam, because even nationalistic Chinese do not want war with a neighbor that was the victim of US military aggression and see Vietnam as having more common grounds with the Chinese, so why then are your media playing up the tensions and calling the Chinese troublemakers? Obviously if you go on the internet, there will be some very vocal nationalists who will be expressing hostile sentiments, but that is not the mainstream opinion in China.
Do you see what I'm getting at here? I understand that a smaller country might not trust the larger country, especially given past history. I also understand that neither side wants to relinquish claims because this will make people in their own country angry. On the whole, however, the Chinese government has no desire to see regional instability and war in Asia, especially against a neighbor, and especially not over a couple of islands, when there are other issues to deal with, such as the US making allies with ex-Soviet countries and having troops stationed in Central Asia and the Pacific. As for the claims to the islands, they didn't happen suddenly, but have been there for a very long time and were unresolved problems from the Cold War. I don't know who is right or wrong, and border disputes are things that happen all the time and almost always get resolved without war, but I am a bit disturbed by what I am hearing coming from Vietnam.