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14/07/2014, 10:19 AM

China accused of "gluttonous, naked aggression" in East Sea

VGP – Chairman of the House of Intelligence Committee on July 10 accused China of “gluttonous, naked aggression” in its conspiracy to grasp control of the East Sea.


This is not the first time, foreign officials and experts voiced concern over China’s unilateral and provocative actions in the East Sea which carries 40 percent of the global trade.
 
Singaporean PM Lee Hsien Loong has recently called for resolution of territorial issues through international law instead of using might.
 
Speaking at the Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations on June 24, PM Lee said: “From the point of view of a country which must survive in the international system where there are big countries and small, outcomes cannot be determined just by might is right.”
 
Since early May this year, China brazenly moved its deep-water drilling rig escorted by over 80 armed and military vessels and many airplanes to the Vietnamese waters and installed the rig at the location which is 80 miles deep into the Vietnamese continental shelf and exclusive economic zone prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (1982 UNCLOS).
 
Dr. Subhash Kapila from South Asia Analysis (ASAG) said “China has once again endangered security and stability in the maritime expanse of the East Sea region.”
 
According to Dr Kapila, China’s moves are part of a calculated strategy and more provocative behavior and brinkmanship by China in the East Sea can be expected.
 
Mr. Holly Morrow, from Harvard University’s Belfer Center said “Regardless of how much energy actually lies under the ocean, Beijing's heavy-handed approach to regional relations and the damage it has caused could hardly be worth tapping some extra barrels of oil for.”
 
Meanwhile, Professor Michel Henry Bouchet at Skema Business School (France) has stated that China’s decision to move its giant state-owned oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 in the East Sea has less to do with an oil exploration strategy than with a strategic push to assert its territorial claims in the region.
 
Professor Bouchet said in an interview published in the Saigon Times Daily on May 21 that China’s “provocative behavior” challenges not only Viet Nam but, more broadly, ASEAN-Western geopolitical stakes.
 
“Indeed, China’s move challenges the cornerstone of global diplomacy, namely freedom of navigation, peaceful resolution of conflicts, and non-use of coercion,” said the professor.
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