Thứ Năm, 21 tháng 7, 2016

Tâm Thư Kính Gởi Quý Ɖồng Hương Việt Nam

Trong một Email gởi cho Web Site bản đồ www.mapquest.com hôm Thứ Hai 07/18/2016, đến nay đã gần một tuần lễ, nhưng chúng tôi không nhận được sự trả lời của ban điều hành Web Site này. Nội dung của Email là chúng tôi yêu cầu www.mapquest.com gỡ bỏ (remove) những chữ Tàu ghi các tên đường và địa điểm trên đảo Phú Lâm nguyên là đảo của Việt Nam mà Tưởng Giới Thạch đã chiếm đóng sau khi Nhật đầu hàng quȃn Ɖồng Minh vào cuối đệ Nhị Thế Chiến. Theo các thỏa thuận Ɖồng Minh thì Trung Hoa Tưởng Giới Thạch sẽ giãi giới quân Nhật từ vῖ tuyến 16 trở lên, thế nhưng quần đảo Hoàng Sa thuộc về Nam vῖ tuyến 16, nhưng quân Tưởng đã chiếm đóng đảo Phú Lâm tức Boisée hay Woody Island. Người Pháp đã có phản đối, nhưng khi ấy quân Pháp có lẽ quá bận với tình hình trong nước Việt Nam nên chỉ cắt một toán quân ra trấn đảo Hoàng Sa (Pattle); vì thế, Phú Lâm đã bị Tưởng rồi Mao chiếm kể từ khi ấy.

Một trong những chứng cớ quan trọng nhất là quân Nhật đã trả lại các đảo Formosa và Pescadores cho Tàu, còn trao trả Paracels và Sprattly cho người Pháp vì khi ấy Pháp bảo hộ Ɖông Dương. Rõ ràng, Tàu không bao giờ sỡ hữu Hoàng Sa hay Trường Sa. Ngày nay trên bản đồ đảo Phú Lâm Web Site www.mapquest.com (MapQuest™) cho phép ghi toàn chữ Trung Hoa trên đó thì không khác gì, MapQuest™ đã cố tình nhìn nhận đảo Phú Lâm là của Tàu.

Có những chứng có về pháp lý quốc tế mà chúng tôi sẽ nêu ra trước công luận quốc tế nếu hết tuần này (07/24/2016) MapQuest™ không trả lời chúng tôi minh bạch thì chúng tôi sẽ soạn thảo một Petition đăng tải trên Web Site www.change.org để thu thập chữ ký gởi đến MapQuest™ và cơ quan truyền thông từ vệ tinh cung cấp bản đồ cho MapQuest™. Chúng tôi sẽ hướng dẫn quý vị cách ký tên cho Petition này trên Web Site www.change.org . Chúng ta mong cần tất cả chữ ký tên yễm trợ tiếng nói chúng ta, càng nhiều càng tốt. Xin tất cả quý đồng hương vui lòng gởi đi cho thân nhân bạn bè để ủng hộ cho Petition này vì sẽ ảnh hưởng quan trọng đến chủ quyền người Việt Nam trên đảo Phú Lâm  của chúng ta. 

Chúng ta chỉ muốn Map Quest™ gỡ bỏ chữ Tàu trên đảo này thôi. Trung cộng  đang ở thế yếu vì dư luận quốc tế hiện nay không hài lòng với sự thách đố của họ đối với Toà Án quốc tế nên việc làm của chúng ta là một đòn cân não ghê gớm đối với Trung Cộng.

Trȃn trọng thông báo.
Hoàng Hoa

07/21/2016

Thứ Hai, 18 tháng 7, 2016

Thư gởi Mapquest.com về việc Yêu cầu gở bỏ chữ Tàu trên bản đồ đảo Woody của Việt Nam

Kính gởi Mapquest.com:

Trên bản đồ của Mapquest.com, đảo Sansha mà tên thật là Woody hay Boisée nằm tọa độ 16.831818, 247.662048 phía Nam đải Hải Nam trên biển Nam Trung Hoa có ghi các tên là các chữ Trung Hoa. Sự thật Sansha là một đảo của người Việt Nam thuộc nước Việt Nam Cộng Hoà. Năm 1945 đảo này do người Pháp quản lý do chánh sách đô hộ trên thuộc địa Ɖông Dương của Pháp, nhưng khi Pháp thua trận trước người Nhật , thì đảo này do người Nhật tiếp thu quản lý. Năm 1947 sau khi Nhật đầu hàng Ɖồng Minh, Hiệp ước quốc tế Postdam đã giao nhiệm vụ cho Tưởng Giới Thạch giải giới quan Nhật và nhận các lãnh thổ và hải đải mà Nhật sẽ giao trả lại thuộc địa Việt Nam.



Tưởng Giới Thạch đã chưa bao giờ trả đảo Woody này lại cho người Việt Nam từ 1947 đến năm 1949 khi Ông rời bỏ lục địa chạy ra Ɖài Loan. Mao Trạch Ɖông đã chiếm đóng đảo Woody của Việt Nam kể từ năm 1949 và chưa bao giờ trả lại cho người Việt Nam.
Ɖể giữ công bằng và trả lại sự thực cho lịch sử, chúng tôi yêu cầu Mapquest.com vui lòng gở bỏ tất cả chữ Trung Hoa trên bản đồ đảo Woody mà tên Tàu gọi là Sansha nằm tọa độ nói trên.
Cám ơn quý vị và chúng mong chờ sự trả lời của quý vị.

Hoàng Hoa,
Trưởng Ban Biên Tập www.saigonfilms.com
July 18, 2016

P.S. Thư này đã được viết bằng Anh ngữ và gởi đến Mapquest.com hôm nay.



Beijing to hold South China Sea war games after ruling

AFP 2 hours 48 minutes ago 
Beijing will close off access to part of the South China Sea for military drills, officials said Monday, after an international tribunal ruled against its sweeping claims in the waters.
An area off the east coast of China's island province of Hainan will host military exercises from Tuesday to Thursday, China's maritime administration said on its website, adding that entrance was "prohibited".
The area of sea identified is some distance from the Paracel islands and even further from the Spratlys. Both chains are claimed by Beijing and several other neighbouring states.
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague last week ruled that there was no legal basis for Beijing's claims to much of the sea, embodied in a "nine-dash line" that dates from 1940s maps and stretches close to other countries' coasts.
Manila -- which lodged the suit against Beijing -- welcomed the decision but China dismissed it as a "piece of waste paper".
Despite Chinese objections, the European Union weighed in on the subject at a regional summit last weekend, with President Donald Tusk telling reporters the bloc "will continue to speak out in support of upholding international law", adding that it had "full confidence" in the PCA and its decisions.
China pressured countries in the ASEAN bloc of Southeast Asian nations not to issue a joint statement on the ruling, diplomats said.
- 'Flexing military muscles' -
During a meeting between top Chinese and US naval officials on Monday, Beijing remained defiant, asserting its right to continue controversial construction projects in the Spratly Islands, which are claimed by several countries in the region.
"We will never stop our construction on the Nansha Islands halfway," Wu Shengli, the commander of the People's Liberation Army Navy, told US counterpart Admiral John Richardson, reported the official Xinhua news agency.
Nansha is China's name for the Spratly Islands.
"The Nansha Islands are China's inherent territory, and our necessary construction on the islands is reasonable, justified and lawful," Wu added.
The commander said Beijing would not be intimated over the issue, adding: "Any attempt to force China to give in through flexing military muscles will only have the opposite effect."
Beijing held military drills in the South China Sea just days before the international arbitration court ruling, state media reported.
A combat air patrol was mounted over the sea recently and these would become a regular practice in future, an air force spokesman said separately.
Bombers, fighters and other aircraft were sent to patrol islands and reefs including Huangyan Dao, spokesman Shen Jinke was quoted by the official Xinhua news agency as saying.
Huangyan Dao, known in English as Scarborough Shoal, is disputed with the Philippines and is seen as a particular flashpoint.
China has rapidly built reefs in the waters into artificial islands capable of military use.
In a separate message on its website, the maritime administration said last week that four out of five lighthouses built atop islands and reefs in the sea have been activated, and a fifth would be put into use soon.

China to close part of South China Sea for military exercise

CHRISTOPHER BODEEN,Associated Press 5 hours ago 
BEIJING (AP) — China is closing off a part of the South China Sea for military exercises this week, the government said Monday, days after an international tribunal ruled against Beijing's claim to ownership of virtually the entire strategic waterway.
Hainan's maritime administration said an area southeast of the island province would be closed from Monday to Thursday, but gave no details about the nature of the exercises. The navy and Defense Ministry had no immediate comment.
Six governments claim territory in the South China Sea, although the area where the Chinese naval exercises are being held is not considered a particular hotspot. China's navy and coast guard operate extensively throughout the South China Sea and regularly stage live firing exercises in the area.
The announcement of the drills came in the middle of a three-day visit to China by the U.S. Navy's top admiral, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, to discuss the South China Sea dispute and ways to boost interactions between the two militaries.
Although the tribunal's ruling was likely to be raised in Richardson's discussions, the head of the Chinese navy, Adm. Wu Shengli, did not mention it directly in opening remarks before reporters at a meeting Monday between the two men at navy headquarters in Beijing.
State broadcaster CCTV later reported that Wu reiterated China's determination to defend all of its territorial claims in the South China Sea and would not permit its interests to be infringed on, a standard position for Chinese officials.
China rejected last Tuesday's ruling by the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration in a case initiated by the Philippines, and refused to take part in the arbitration. It asserts that islands in the South China Sea are "China's inherent territory," and says it could declare an air defense identification zone over the waters if it felt threatened.
In the days following the ruling, Beijing landed two civilian aircraft on new airstrips on disputed Mischief and Subi reefs and dispatched its coast guard to block Philippine fishing boats from a contested shoal.
In a further development, Chinese air force spokesman Shen Jinke was quoted by state media as saying that air force fighters and bombers had recently conducted patrols over the South China Sea and would make that "a regular practice" in future.
The tribunal ruled that China violated international maritime law by building up artificial islands in the South China Sea that destroyed coral reefs, and by disrupting fishing and oil exploration.
China's island development has inflamed regional tensions, with many fearing that Beijing will use the construction of new islands complete with airfields and military facilities to extend its military reach and perhaps try to restrict navigation.
Several times in the past year, U.S. warships have deliberately sailed close to one of those islands to exercise freedom of navigation and challenge the claims. In response, China has deployed fighter jets and ships to track and warn off the American ships, and accused the U.S. of threatening its national security.

Freedom of navigation patrols may end 'in disaster': Chinese admiral

By Ben Blanchard,Reuters 4 hours ago 

Thứ Sáu, 15 tháng 7, 2016



Boisée (Woody) Island or Phú Lȃm Island of the Paracels  Archipelago
belonged to Vietnam was invaded and occupied illegally by the Republic of China (Chiang Kai Check) in 1947 after the Japanese left Indochina .  Map US Marine 1944. Edited by Hoàng Hoa www.saigonfilms.com. Map Chart 5496 Copyrighted © by the US Marine 1944.
 
 

Caught between a reef and a hard place, Manila's South China Sea victory runs aground


https://www.yahoo.com/news/caught-between-reef-hard-place-manilas-south-china-034130348.html

By Greg Torode and Manuel Mogato,Reuters
HONG KONG/MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines may have won an emphatic legal victory over China in the South China Sea, but the aptly named Mischief Reef shows just how hard it will be for Manila to make its triumph count in the strategic waterway.
Chinese construction on the reef, which began two decades ago as a few rickety shelters perched on stilts, now covers an area larger than 500 football fields. It includes a 3 km (9,800 feet) runway, extensive housing, parade grounds and radar nests, satellite images show.
According to Tuesday's landmark ruling, however, the reef and everything on it legally belongs to the Philippines and no amount of time or building will change that.
Publicly, Manila has been unusually cautious in its response to the sweeping ruling, urging "restraint and sobriety". In private, officials acknowledge they have little hope of recovering Mischief Reef any time soon despite the unequivocal ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.
"This will take time, not in the next five or 10 years," said one senior Philippine navy official, requesting anonymity to speak freely on the highly sensitive matter.
It was, he said, "impossible to evict the Chinese there".
RESOLUTE RESPONSE
Beijing, which boycotted the case from the outset, says the ruling has no bearing on its rights in the South China Sea and has reasserted it claims to Mischief and other features.
On Thursday, the state-run People's Daily ran a picture on its front page of a civilian aircraft landing at the new Mischief airport, two Chinese flags rippling from the cockpit.
"As I've said before, it won't have any effect," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang said, when asked if China would seek to bolster its sovereignty over Mischief Reef.
"At the same time, I want to stress that if any person wants to take the outcome of this arbitration as a basis for taking any provocative steps against China's interests, China will most certainly resolutely respond," Lu told reporters.
With the panel having no powers to enforce its ruling, mainland experts see no sign that China will scale back its actions across the South China Sea.
"The tribunal's decision is so sweeping that it is not going to help solve the problem," said Sienho Yee, an international law specialist at China's Wuhan University.
Other Chinese experts, speaking privately, said the ruling was being closely scrutinized, despite official statements dismissing its relevance.
Some among leadership elites had been "stung" by its comprehensive stance against China.
"There is surprise at the extent of the sheer arrogance of these judges sitting (in Europe) deciding what is a rock and what is an island," said one Beijing-based scholar.
"It can only serve to unify our leadership and harden Chinese views, and that includes the military leadership. There will be little appetite to take a step back."
Manila's "softly, softly" approach reflected its understanding of that risk, Philippine officials said.
"We should find ways to allow some face-saving actions because China could face tremendous domestic pressure," the Philippine navy official said. "We don't want the Chinese Communist Party to be overthrown by the more hot-headed people in the People's Liberation Army. That will be too dangerous."
President Xi Jinping has moved extensively to tighten his grip on power since assuming office almost four years ago and there has been no sign of any such action.
NOTHING MORE THAN SEABED
The decision on Mischief Reef is among the most significant within the 479-page judgment from the panel, which looked at the territorial rights of disputed reefs, rocks and shoals scattered throughout the key trade route.
At a stroke, the court dismissed Beijing's 69-year-old nine-dash line claim to much of the South China Sea and removed any legal basis for Beijing to create a network of linked territorial and economic seas under its control, legal experts said.
Mischief is China's eastern most holding in the resource-rich waterway. Some 300 km (185 miles) west of the Philippines' island of Palawan and 1,100 km (685 miles) from China's Hainan Island, it sits entirely within the Philippines' exclusive economic zone and on its continental shelf.
The panel ruled China's building of installations on reclaimed land, which accelerated sharply after 2014, was illegal and had "aggravated" the dispute under the U.N Convention on the Law of the Sea, under which Manila launched the case in 2013.
The judges backed Philippines' lawyers who used satellite, survey and historical data, including Chinese naval pilot notes, to show Mischief Reef is - legally at least - nothing more than seabed exposed at low tide.
The lawyers gave evidence that its traditional Chinese name - Mi Qi Fu - was based on Mischief's English name, according to court transcripts, seeking to undermine China's argument that it had been, in its words, "master" of the South China Sea for 2,000 years. China calls it Meiji Reef today.
POTENTIAL FLASHPOINT
Regional military officials and diplomats say Mischief is a clear flashpoint in what is expected to be months of tension after the ruling.
Others include Scarborough Shoal, a traditional Philippine fishing ground that was occupied by China in 2012, and Second Thomas Shoal, where a small group of Philippine soldiers is based in the rusting hulk of a grounded ship.
The United States is also watching Mischief closely and has repeatedly warned China against further development of islands within the waters of the Philippines, a formal security ally.
U.S. Republican Senator Dan Sullivan demanded on Wednesday that U.S. ships sail close to Mischief as part of pledged increases in so-called freedom-of-navigation operations.
A U.S. defense official also told Reuters that, if regional competition escalated into confrontation, U.S. naval and air forces were prepared to act to maintain free navigation.
Manila is clear it doesn't want to provoke China further.
"They are a bit angry now," Philippines' Defence Minister Delfin Lorenzana told Reuters. "Emotions are running high and we don't want to provide them any reason to react violently."
(Additional reporting by Ben Blanchard in BEIJING and Martin Petty in MANILA; Editing by Lincoln Feast)

Thứ Năm, 14 tháng 7, 2016

Yêu Cầu MapQuest.com không dùng chữ Tàu trên Bản đồ



Yêu Cầu MapQuest.com không dùng chữ Tàu trên Bản đồ  

tên đảo Woodland là Nansha và không dùng chữ Tàu cho một số đảo thuộc quần đảo Trường Sa (Spratly Islands) của Việt Nam Cộng Hòa


Toàn Văn Phán Quyết của Tòa Án Trung Gian Hòa Giải Le Hague July 12, 2016 về Vụ Kiện của Phi Luật Tân đối với Trung Cộng

Toàn văn này bằng Anh ngữ, nhưng ch’ng tôi sẽ cố gắng dịch sang Việt ngữ trong thời gian tới để người Việt Nam đọc hiểu.
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Hoàng Hoa

Thứ Tư, 13 tháng 7, 2016

What the South China Sea ruling means for the world

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/13/what-the-south-china-sea-ruling-means-for-the-world/

verdict delivered by an international court in The Hague sent geopolitical shock waves through Asia.
The panel of judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration said China's exclusive claims to a vast swath of territory in the South China Sea had no historical or legal basis, siding with the Philippines in a case that Manila had brought to the court in 2013 over China's expansive moves into a number of disputed islands and shoals.
The South China Sea is one of the world's most strategic bodies of water and remains a vital conduit for a huge proportion of global shipping. But it's also now perhaps the most treacherous flash point in the world, with the overlapping claims of half a dozen Asian governments constantly creating regional friction.
In recent times, separate disputes between China and the Philippines and Vietnam have led to minor skirmishes and naval standoffs. China, as The Washington Post has documented over the past year, has steadily sought to change the facts on the ground (or on the waves) in its favor, establishing military bases and building up new islands in areas under its control. The United States, meanwhile,recently deployed aircraft carriers to the region, a somewhat striking move.
The Chinese have long claimed virtually the entire South China Sea and the barren rocks and islands within it as their sovereign territory. The court, though, ruled against the legitimacy of China's "nine-dash line" -- marked on the map below -- which Beijing routinely invokes as the demarcation of its historical claim over the sea.