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Dưới đây mình giới thiệu một bài thơ rất hay và xúc động vừa được trình bày ngày 23/9/2014 tại Đại hội đồng Liên Hợp Quốc.
Nhà thơ Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner đến từ đảo Marshall – Republic of Marshall Island đã có bài phát biểu trong lễ khai mạc Hội nghị thượng đỉnh về khí hậu của Đại hội đồng Liên Hợp Quốc đang diễn ra tại New York. Kathy đã được lựa chọn từ 500 ứng cử viên dân sự được đề cử bởi Liên hợp quốc. Continue reading Bài thơ Dear Matefete Peinam
by cogitASIA Staff • September 4, 2014
By Duong Tran
Vietnam has an urgent need to boost its capacity of electricity generation if it wants to sustain current-level growth rates. The Vietnamese government has laid out an ambitious plan to meet future electricity demands, but making use of multiple energy sources remains a challenge. In this context, the U.S.-Vietnam nuclear cooperation agreement could play a critical role in shaping the country’s electricity production over the next decades. Continue reading The U.S.-Vietnam 123 Agreement Could Help Vietnam’s Electricity Needs
India considers a Vietnamese offer to explore offshore drilling options despite Chinese protests.
August 27, 2014
thediplomat – India’s External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj arrived in Hanoi, Vietnam on Monday for a two day visit to the Southeast Asian country. The visit came at the invitation of her Vietnamese counterpart Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh. In addition to meeting Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Swaraj also met Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, both on Monday. Continue reading India and Vietnam Seek Stronger Ties
BY ANDREW R.C. MARSHALL
RANAI Indonesia
(Reuters) – The word “sleepy” could have been invented for Ranai, the largest town in Indonesia’s remote and sparsely populated Natuna archipelago.
It has few cars and only two sets of traffic lights. The cloud-wreathed mountain looming over it resembles a slumbering volcano. Nearby beaches lie pristine and empty, waiting for tourists. Continue reading Remote, gas-rich islands on Indonesia’s South China Sea frontline
August 25, 2014
By Nguyen Manh Hung
CogitASIA China’s placement of an oil rig inside Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone in May 2014 was a wake up call for the Vietnamese leadership. It took place at a time when Hanoi was filled with speculation about an intense struggle for power and secret dealings in preparation for the 2016 Communist Party Congress. Continue reading Chinese Oil Rig and Vietnamese Politics: Business as Usual?
by cogitASIA Staff • August 18, 2014
By Duong Tran & Ngoc Phan
Cogitasia – In the most recent meeting of the Mekong River Commission (MRC), Laos agreed to consult with its neighbors on the controversial Don Sahong hydropower project, allowing it to undergo a six-month review process. While the decision could be seen as a result of strong pressure from other MRC members, Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam, recent efforts led by the United States to engage Laos under the Lower Mekong Initiative (LMI) could have helped to influence Vientiane’s calculations. Continue reading Engaging Laos on Hydropower: Urgent Tasks, High Returns
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NewYorkTime – Two new maps being issued in China this summer are stirring debate across Asia. The first, an ambitious vertical map issued in June by the Hunan Map Publishing House, uses 10 dashes around the South China Sea to broadly delineate China’s claims to contested waters, shoals, rocks, reefs and islands there. The second is being distributed to units of the People’s Liberation Army. Military officials have said it is the army’s first major revision of a map in 30 years. Continue reading New Map Shows China’s True Expanse, General Says
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China’s 3 Crimes of War of Aggression against the Vietnamese People
The UN General Assembly’s Declaration on Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations (Oct. 17, 1970) (hereinafter “the Declaration”) provided, inter alia, “The principle that States shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any State or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations”.
The Declaration announced: Continue reading China’s 3 Crimes of War of Aggression against the Vietnamese People
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Dưới đây là 2 bản – tiếng Việt và tiếng Anh – của bài phân tích pháp lý về lá thư Thủ tướng VN Phạm Văn Đồng gửi Thủ tướng TQ Chu Ân Lai ngày 14 tháng 9 năm 1958.
Bản tiếng Việt có tên là Phân tích pháp lý lá thư của Thủ tướng Phạm Văn Đồng gửi Thủ tướng Chu Ân Lai ngày 14 tháng 9 năm 1958.
Bản tiếng Anh có tên là Deciphering the letter of PM Phạm Văn Đồng to PM Zhou En Lai on September 14, 1958.
Hai bài này có nguồn nguyên thủy từ các thảo luận trên UNCLOSforum.com .
Mình viết hai bài này là để xóa bỏ mọi tuyên truyền Trung quốc đã có mấy năm nay về lá thư của Thủ tướng Phạm Văn Đồng. Nhờ các bạn chuyển đi rộng rãi đến đồng bào chúng ta.
Cám ơn các bạn.
Mến,
Too many empty noises, too much sorcery, for this 2-paragraph letter from PM Phạm Văn Đồng to PM Zhou En Lai on Sept. 14, 1858.
China threw it onto the Internet, crowning it as Công Hàm. I am not sure what Công Hàm really means, but it sounds important and mysterious. Someone translated the name into Diplomatic Note.
And the Chinese, masters in the art of smoke blowing, said the Công Hàm meant that Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng agreed to China’s sovereignty over the Paracels and the Spratlys.
Unfortunately, a bunch of anti-commie overseas Vietnamese picked it up after the Chinese, and advertised the letter as Công Hàm Bán Nước (Công Hàm to sell the country). So, the letter became famous, thanks to Chinese propaganda.
But indeed, all the scholars I know (including the non-lawyer scholars) agree that the letter said only one simple thing, that Prime Minister PVĐ agreed to the 12-mile territorial sea adopted by the Chinese in 1958.
I wrote the following imaginary trial between Counsel for China (Cch), Counsel for Vietnam (Cvn) and a five-judge arbitration panel, talking mainly through one judge (J), to show what PM PVĐ intended to write in his letter. Continue reading Letter of PM Phạm Văn Đồng to PM Zhou En Lai on September 14, 1958
Mohan Malik
thediplomat – The Spratly Islands—not so long ago known primarily as a rich fishing ground—have turned into an international flashpoint as Chinese leaders insist with increasing truculence that the islands, rocks, and reefs have been, in the words of Premier Wen Jiabao, “China’s historical territory since ancient times.” Normally, the overlapping territorial claims to sovereignty and maritime boundaries ought to be resolved through a combination of customary international law, adjudication before the International Court of Justice or the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, or arbitration under Annex VII of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). While China has ratified UNCLOS, the treaty by and large rejects “historically based” claims, which are precisely the type Beijing periodically asserts. On September 4, 2012, China’s foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, told US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that there is “plenty of historical and jurisprudence evidence to show that China has sovereignty over the islands in the South China Sea and the adjacent waters.” Continue reading Historical Fiction: China’s South China Sea Claims
thediplomat – As its dispute with Vietnam continues, China is trying to have it both ways at the United Nations.
The maritime confrontation between China and Vietnam over the placement of oil rig HYSY 981 in disputed waters in the South China Sea that began in early May is now entering its seventh week.
On June 9 China unexpectedly opened a new front when Wang Min, Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, presented Secretary General Ban Ki-moon a formal position paper on the dispute with a request that he circulate it to all 193 UN members. Continue reading China’s Information Warfare Campaign and the South China Sea: Bring It On!
thediplomat – By raising the oil rig dispute with Vietnam at the UN, China risks setting a dangerous precedent for itself.
China effectively internationalized its dispute with Vietnam over an oil rig in the South China Sea on Monday by submitting its claim against Hanoi to the UN Secretary General.
As Shannon reported yesterday, on Sunday China’s Foreign Ministry released a statement entitled, The Operation of the HYSY 981 Drilling Rig: Vietnam’s Provocation and China’s Position, which criticized Vietnam’s alleged provocations over the oil rig and provided the “most comprehensive outline to date of China’s claims to the Paracel Islands.” Continue reading China ‘Internationalizes’ South China Sea Dispute
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