Check why Vietnamese government has to support the nationalist feeling against Chinese

In Straits Times, an analysis provides a vision why Vietnamese government has to support the nationalist feeling against Chinese:

Anti-China riots: Hanoi's tough juggling act

Nirmal Ghosh
The Straits Times
Publication Date : 20-05-2014
http://www.stasiareport.com/the-big-story/asia-report/china/story/anti-china-riots-hanois-tough-juggling-act-20140520
Full article: http://www.asianewsnet.net/news-60544.html

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In Vietnam, there appears to be an almost universal feeling, pumped up by state-controlled media, that China's action in the South China Sea amounts to an "incursion" and a challenge to Vietnamese sovereignty.

"If the government gives in to China, it means it is turning its back on the people," Hanoi-based anti-corruption activist Le Hien Duc, 82, told The Straits Times.

"But if the government stands up to China, the people will continue to support it. Otherwise, no one will trust the government anymore."

Accountant Pham Thu Hang, 32, said: "The Vietnamese people will never accept a government that gives in to China... The government will collapse."

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