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Viewing cable 07HOCHIMINHCITY1266, PATRIOTIC HCMC AND HANOI RALLIES NEVERTHELESS CHALLENGE GVN

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Reference ID Created Released Classification Origin
07HOCHIMINHCITY1266 2007-12-21 12:59 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Consulate Ho Chi Minh City
VZCZCXRO7785
OO RUEHDT RUEHPB
DE RUEHHM #1266/01 3551259
ZNR UUUUU ZZH
O P 211259Z DEC 07
FM AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 3482
INFO RUEHHI/AMEMBASSY HANOI PRIORITY 2381
RUCNARF/ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM COLLECTIVE
RUEHBJ/AMEMBASSY BEIJING PRIORITY 0035
RUEHHM/AMCONSUL HO CHI MINH CITY 3701
UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 HO CHI MINH CITY 001266 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR EAP/MLS, EAP/CM, DRL/IRF, DRL/AWH 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PGOV PREL PHUM VM
SUBJECT: PATRIOTIC HCMC AND HANOI RALLIES NEVERTHELESS CHALLENGE GVN 
SENSE OF ORDER 
 
REF: (A) HANOI 2060, (B) HO CHI MIN 766, (C) HO CHI MIN 706 
 
HO CHI MIN 00001266  001.2 OF 002 
 
 
1. (SBU) Organizing themselves through blogs and instant 
messaging networks, students in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi 
gathered on December 9, and again on December 16 in Ho Chi Minh 
City, to protest China's decision to set up a government unit in 
Hainan to administer the Paracel and Spratly islands.  GVN 
authorities worked to isolate the protesters in HCMC and 
persuade them to disband, giving some credibility to Ministry of 
Foreign Affairs statements that these protests were 
"spontaneous" and "unauthorized."  HCMC authorities also 
temporarily detained several political dissidents to prevent 
them from joining the December 16 protests.  The protests have 
generated lively internet commentary.  End summary. 
 
Students Express Their Patriotism 
--------------------------------- 
2. (SBU) On December 9 and 16 hundreds of young Vietnamese 
expressed anti-China sentiments in front of China's Consulate in 
HCMC over Vietnam's perceived weak response to China's decision 
to set up administrative control over the Paracel and Spratly 
islands -- groups of coral islands in the South China Sea that 
have been the subject of territory dispute between China and 
Vietnam.  Consulate contacts predict that protests will continue 
this coming Sunday, December 23.  Student protests also took 
place in Hanoi on December 9 in front of the Chinese Embassy 
(reftel). 
 
3. (SBU) ConGen HCMC contacts and media reports described the 
first demonstration on December 9 as peaceful amid a heavy 
police presence.  According to many of the demonstrators, calls 
for demonstration circulated through Yahoo Messenger and by 
Internet for several days before the December 9 rally.  Although 
the Vietnamese MFA spokesman said the protest was "spontaneous" 
and "unauthorized", many demonstrators believed that it was 
tacitly encouraged by GVN.  HCMC government leaders came to 
defuse the protest, promising that the HCMC Communist Youth 
Union (the Communist Party's youth organization) would lead 
another demonstration the next Sunday (Dec 16).  Although the 
second demonstration did take place, it did not appear to be 
organized by the Youth Union. 
 
4. (SBU) On December 16 about 100 university students approached 
the Chinese Consulate only to find that the area had been 
cordoned off by police.  Observers told us demonstrators moved 
to a lawn in the city center, and having swelled to 700 were 
surrounded by uniformed and plainclothes security forces. 
According to witnesses, some university professors came to 
"explain" to the students that their patriotism was appreciated 
but they should not create an opportunity for "bad elements" to 
take advantage of their patriotism.  In Hanoi on the morning of 
December 16, a heavy police presence around the Chinese Embassy 
precluded any repetition of the previous week's protest. 
 
Rounding up the Usual Suspects 
------------------------------ 
5. (SBU) On December 15, the day before the second 
demonstration, the Cong An Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (HCMC Police 
newspaper) published a announcement, warning that the police had 
detected "conspiracies by hostile reactionary forces to ignite 
anti-China protest and create public disorder."  The 
announcement listed "terrorist group Viet Tan" and the 
"reactionary Youth Assembly for Democracy" as leading 
conspirators.  In fact, several democracy activists, including 
Democratic Party of Vietnam Deputy Secretary General Tran Khue 
and Bloc 8406 leader Do Nam Hai, were prevented by police from 
reaching the demonstration site.  Tran Khue and Do Nam Hai told 
us they were detained for several hours and only released when 
the demonstration came to and end at around three that afternoon. 
 
HCMC Media and the IT Play a New Role 
------------------------------------- 
6. (SBU) Frustration among Vietnamese towards China's action 
appears high, and the surge of nationalism appears to have 
crossed political barriers.  On Dec 6, the HCMC-based popular 
daily Tuoi Tre ran an editorial, calling China's decision to set 
up administrative control over the islands "unacceptable," and 
for the first time since 1975 recalled the losing battle between 
ARVN navy and Chinese navy in 1974 when China invaded the 
Paracels.  The article wrote that the ARVN lost 58 men in that 
battle to "defend the motherland."  The article resulted in 
increased attention to the author's public blog in which he 
routinely discusses the ARVN navy.  [Comment:  The protestors' 
use of instant messaging and blogs to organize their activities 
and spread their novel ideas of patriotism on the internet 
demonstrate that technology is slowly eroding the government's 
ability to control communication.  End Comment.] 
 
 
HO CHI MIN 00001266  002.2 OF 002 
 
 
7. (SBU) The internet also serves a forum for open debate on the 
topic.  Following the December 9 demonstration in Hanoi, Ha 
Quang Thuy a vice rector of the Hanoi National University's 
Technological College, reportedly wrote a letter asking students 
not to participate in future anti-China demonstrations that was 
posted on "hoangsa.org" (Paracels.org).  The letter prompted a 
flurry of comments from both domestic and overseas Vietnamese 
criticizing the vice rector.  Some overseas Vietnamese suggested 
that the [communist] regime should also be blamed for the soft 
approach.  Another hoangsa.org article called for students to 
refrain from conducting future anti-China demonstrations, 
"detrimental" to Sino-Vietnamese relations and asserted that the 
Communist Party of Vietnam was correct in taking a "flexible, 
mild approach" to resolving the South China Sea dispute.  "As a 
new non-permanent UNSC member, Vietnam is actually benefiting 
from current close ties with China" and China has proven to be 
one of Vietnam's most important economic and trading partners, 
the anonymous author asserted.  Many follow-on posts suggested 
that the author must be ethnic Chinese Vietnamese, contending 
that the demonstrations are patriotic and now is a good chance 
to see the nation rally for a good cause. 
 
Comment: 
-------- 
8. (SBU) Dissidents' attempts to join the anti-China protests 
put the GVN in a dilemma:  the GVN needs to strike balance 
between its attempts to use nationalism as a tool for 
strengthening public loyalty and its need to manage historically 
complex relations with a powerful neighbor that is sensitive to 
perceived slights.  With widespread criticism among overseas and 
domestic Vietnamese that GVN has been too submissive and done 
too little to protect the motherland, demonstrations in Vietnam, 
even for nationalist reasons, continue to be a gravely sensitive 
issue. 
 
9. (SBU) It is always tempting to assume that such protests in 
Vietnam are organized by the GVN.  In this case, that was not at 
all clear.  While police did not break up the protest, they 
cordoned off the protestors to prevent others from joining and 
prevented anyone from taking pictures -- even going so far as to 
send police out to admonish a group of cruise boat tourists who 
had been at the nearby Notre Dame Cathedral in Ho Chi Minh City. 
 Police also strongly encouraged passersby who lingered to move 
along.  In short, the police treated the protestors exactly the 
same way they treated the last rights protestors earlier this 
year.  End comment. 
 
10. (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Hanoi. 
FAIRFAX