Hanoi's tolerance of protests against the regime in Beijing has set alarm bells ringing
Outside Ho Chi Minh City's popular brick-and-wood Chieu Café, a hastily fashioned, bright yellow placard warns away potential patrons. "Customers from mainland China will be refused service," it reads, "until the Chinese government removes its oil rig."
The café's owner, Nguyen Chieu, 37, an outspoken poet, shrugs off any indication that such sentiments could help stoke further animosity between two communist neighbours that have enjoyed relative peace and prosperity for three decades. But all that changed last week, when violent protests saw at least 21 people killed and 100 injured as mobs set fire to and looted businesses and factories, hunted down Chinese workers and attacked police.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago.
Outside Ho Chi Minh City's popular brick-and-wood Chieu Café, a hastily fashioned, bright yellow placard warns away potential patrons. "Customers from mainland China will be refused service," it reads, "until the Chinese government removes its oil rig."
The café's owner, Nguyen Chieu, 37, an outspoken poet, shrugs off any indication that such sentiments could help stoke further animosity between two communist neighbours that have enjoyed relative peace and prosperity for three decades. But all that changed last week, when violent protests saw at least 21 people killed and 100 injured as mobs set fire to and looted businesses and factories, hunted down Chinese workers and attacked police.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago.