Protestors torch factories in southern Vietnam as China protests escalate

CNN ^ | 7:55 AM EDT, Wed May 14, 2014 | Euan McKirdy

[Zhang Fei]

(CNN) -- Anti-Chinese protests in Vietnam have turned violent with demonstrators setting on fire a number of factories in a southern Vietnamese industrial park.

Properties in the Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Parks (VSIP) I & II in Binh Duong were targeted Tuesday by thousands of protesters demonstrating over China's deployment of an oil rig into waters that both countries claim as sovereign territory.

Reports suggest the demonstrators targeted factories owned by Chinese firms, although CNN received a report that the arson was indiscriminate, with Korean-, Taiwanese- and Japanese-owned properties also torched by the angry mob.

[mylife]

There has been bad blood for many years.

[mylife]

Maybe an internet film sparked it /s

[Carry_Okie]

The bad blood between Vietnam and China goes back almost 2,000 years.

[mylife]

China keeps pushing into other lands.
She is pushing into India, Bhutan, Tibet, Nepal, Vietnam.. etc

[trisham]

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[Eric in the Ozarks]

And the Philippines.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[mylife]

Funny thing, I have beside me a Chinese C96 Mauser I suspect was Hanyang C96
They are almost entirely undocumented.

http://www.guns.com/2012/01/26/a-sweeping-history-of-the-mauser-c96-broomhandle-pistol/

BTW the Chinese invented the “gangsta” method of holding a pistols sideways with this full auto machine pistol.
Since the pistol ejects straight up someone decided to hold it sideways so the hot bras does not fall in your shirt.
It was noted by the Chinese that the gun walked from one side of the room to the other when held in this fashion.
They slaughtered Christians in this way during the Boxer rebellion.

[mylife]

Yes.
They are very aggressive.

[null and void]

I had a Vietnam era green beret veteran roommate who insisted the only reason we were in Vietnam was because of the oil in the Mekong delta.

One hears astonishingly little in the US Press about Vietnamese oil.

(Worth noting the first oil crisis happened shortly after we abandoned Vietnam)

[mylife]

Interesting observation since in Vietnam they make diesel from catfish fat.

[mylife]

Lotta catfish fat in the Mekong ☺

[null and void]

Communists. *sigh*

[kickstart]

Looks to me like a government “rent a mob” job.

[null and void]

Bigguns too!

[mylife]

Imperialist communists.

[mylife]

They aint even that big in Tx!

[tumblindice]

[Carry_Okie]

They slaughtered Christians in this way during the Boxer rebellion.

Gives a whole new meaning to "spray and pray."

A fraction of my family were missionaries in Shanghai back in the late '40s. Thanks for the post.