2014 Vietnam anti-China protests
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| 2014 Vietnam anti-China protest | |||
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 Vietnamese protesters in Hanoi, May 11, 2014 | |||
| Date | 10 May 2014–ongoing (10 years, 7 months, 3 weeks and 5 days) | ||
| Location | 22 Vietnamese provinces, most notably in the provinces of: Bình Dương, Cần Thơ, Đồng Nai, Hà Tĩnh, Haiphong, Hanoi, Saigon, Thái Bình. Overseas in major cities with large Vietnamese communities, including: Australia: Melbourne Canada: Montreal, Toronto Czech Republic: Prague France: Paris Germany: Berlin, Frankfurt Ukraine: Kiev USA: Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Jose, Washington D.C. | ||
| Caused by | China deployed an oil rig in a disputed section between the two country. | ||
| Methods | Protests | ||
| Status | Ongoing | ||
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2014 Vietnam anti-China protest was the protest held across Vietnam in May 2014 in response to China deploying an oil rig in a disputed region of the South China Sea between the two countries.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
Background
There have been all kinds of conflicts between People's Republic of China and Vietnam since 1970s, such as the Sino-Vietnamese War. But the direct cause of this protest is China's depolying Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil platform in the disputed territory.
Timeline
- May 12 (Mon.): One of the Taiwanese invested factory in Binh Duong, about a hundred labor rose for protest marching, the next day morning, factory labor all on strike, also joined by other people around.
- May 13 (Tue.): The protest marching escalated to violence riot, Many industrial park and factories with Chinese characters in Binh Duong were attacked and forced to shut down in the first wave of attack, and furthermore, part of Singaporean, Malaysian, Japanese, and Korean invested factories were attacked as well.
- May 14 (Wed.): Late night May 13, several Taiwanese factories were burnt down and the in stock, on going product and material were robbed by riotous, production equipment damage permanently. A Taiwanese invested bicycle factory was burnt and found one died in the burnt factory .[8]
- May 16 (Fri.): Vietnamese in the Philippines also had a protest with Filipinos in Philippine capital.[9]
- May 18 (Sun.): Vietnamese police quashed planned protests in Saigon, which were originally allowed by the regime. 15 - 20 protestors were seen arrested and thrown into unmarked vehicles. Police crackdown on protests came in response to prevent further damage to Chinese investment and business interests in Vietnam, prevent further damage to existing foreign business establishments, and out of the communist regime's fears of being overthrown by the populace. Chinese government has evacuated around 3000 Chinese nationals (mainly workers and business people) out from Vietnam by chartered planes and ships, including 16 injured Chinese.
Protest violence
The demonstration quickly developed into violence, where factories were robbed, smashed or burnt. In addition to Mainland Chinese companies, some demonstrators mistakenly targeting Taiwanese, Japanese and Singaporean businesses whom the owner are ethnically chinese-looking (Singaporean, Taiwanese) and those which uses Chinese characters (Japanese) publicly.
Reactions
Taiwan issued a condemnation of the protests by the Vietnamese and denounced them for attacking Taiwanese property.[10]
Casualties
Hà Tĩnh
On May 15, it was reported that More than 20 dead as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam by Reuters. According to the report, about 100 people were injured and sent to the hospital due to the violence in the night of 14th. A doctor in central Hà Tĩnh Province said that five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed on Wednesday night in rioting.[11]
Central News Agency (Republic of China) confirmed that a conflict between staff in Formosa Ha Tinh Steel Corporation (a Taiwanese corporation) and demonstrators had cause the death of a cadre from Chinese Mainland.[12]
Bình Dương
On May 15 in a Taiwanese factory, when cleaning up the burnt site, a dead body was found and confirmed as a employed cadre from Chinese Mainland.[12]
References
- ^ "Vietnam-China tensions: One dead in Taiwan mill protest". 2014-05-15.
- ^ "Factories Torched in Anti-China Protest in Vietnam".
- ^ "Anti-Chinese Violence Convulses Vietnam, Pitting Laborers Against Laborers". The New York Times. 2014-05-15.
- ^ "Factories burned in anti-China protest in Vietnam". Washington Post. 2014-05-14.
- ^ "Protestors torch factories in southern Vietnam as China protests escalate". CNN.
- ^ "Vietnamese protesters target Chinese embassy". CNN.
- ^ "Vietnam anti-China protest: Factories burnt". BBC. 2014-05-14.
- ^ "Vietnam-China tensions: One dead in Taiwan mill protest".
- ^ "Filipinos, Vietnamese join anti-China street protest".
- ^ "Taiwan condemns violent protest in Vietnam"
- ^ "Up to 21 dead, doctor says, as anti-China riots spread in Vietnam". Reuters. 2014-05-15.
- ^ a b "越南反華暴動 台廠2陸幹死亡" (in Chinese (Taiwan)). 中央社. 2014-05-15. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
- Kyodo News International (May 13, 2014 4:32pm). "Taiwan condemns violent protest in Vietnam". globalpost. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
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