China Targeted by Vietnamese in Fiery Riots
By CHRIS BUCKLEY, CHAU DOAN and THOMAS FULLER
Thousands of Vietnamese workers rampaged after China placed an oil rig
in disputed waters, but most of the factories hit were owned by
companies from South Korea and Taiwan.
越南暴動 中國成為目標
越南不滿中國在南海鑽油管，侵犯南海主權，近日發起抗中運動，但情勢越演越烈。雖然越南群眾的「目標」是中國，但當地多家外資廠商都遭到攻擊破壞，台灣方面有200家廠商受到影響，韓國也有50家廠商受到波擊。
外交部資料指出，以台資名字在越南登記成立的台商共有2287家，其中平陽省有669家，同奈省有331家，胡志明市有485家。越南台商家眷屬約4萬人。目前遭破壞台商工廠家數及損失金額能貸統計，越南投資環境恐因此事件受到嚴重影響。
外交部說，平陽省台商約300人，目前暫居平陽美麗華飯店(The Mira Hotel)安全無虞，約100餘人撤到平陽宜安公安站。同奈省有約190位台商分別在不同旅館暫住，駐胡志明市辦事處以表達慰問，並瞭解台商需求，協助台商返國或前往其他安全地區。
此外，外交部設計「我是台灣人，我來自台灣」越文識別標誌貼紙2萬份，提供外館透過台商會系統宣導台商在公司（工廠）張貼，希望能避免遭錯誤攻擊。外交部指示駐越南代表處及駐胡志明市辦事處立即就地先行印製相關標誌貼紙，儘速分送台商使用。（陳培煌╱台北報導）
越南稱逮捕4百人 10日商也遭殃
越南最大腳踏車廠、台資ASAMA公司遭暴民攻擊，慘不忍睹。翻攝網路
越南從前日開始發動大規模排華行動，造成多處台商企業遭到損毀或燒毀，而越南媒體報導指出，目前當局已派出警力，逮捕滋事份子。
據《日本電視台》報導，越南當地媒體指出警方已逮捕約400名滋事份子。此外，日本工商協會也指出，約有10家日商企業也遭到破壞和攻擊，在越南的日本學校今日也停課一天，日本政府也呼籲當地日僑盡量不要外出。
而 據《蘋果》初步統計，至少有30家在越南設廠的台灣上市櫃公司，因當地居民闖入廠區、暴力破壞廠辦、宿舍甚至竊取物品而暫時停工，台籍人員也全數撤往安全 地區。尤其是在越南投資金額高達約3619億元台幣的台塑子公司台灣興業遭掠奪一空，台塑河靜鋼鐵廠甚至傳遭縱火，是受害最大的台商。（施旖婕／綜合外電 報導）
據《日本電視台》報導，越南當地媒體指出警方已逮捕約400名滋事份子。此外，日本工商協會也指出，約有10家日商企業也遭到破壞和攻擊，在越南的日本學校今日也停課一天，日本政府也呼籲當地日僑盡量不要外出。
而 據《蘋果》初步統計，至少有30家在越南設廠的台灣上市櫃公司，因當地居民闖入廠區、暴力破壞廠辦、宿舍甚至竊取物品而暫時停工，台籍人員也全數撤往安全 地區。尤其是在越南投資金額高達約3619億元台幣的台塑子公司台灣興業遭掠奪一空，台塑河靜鋼鐵廠甚至傳遭縱火，是受害最大的台商。（施旖婕／綜合外電 報導）
台商在中國、越南與印尼的艱難處境：越印排華暴動、崛起中的中国劳工力量、
台商去越南投資，很多是去中國投資之後的再/轉投資。由於他們在中國培養出一些幹部，所以當然在越南用了中國人當中間幹部，這種做法是"以夷治夷" 的經濟有效方式。換句話說，越南人是很清楚的。
一位越南投資的大企業台商幹部透露，早在數月以前，越南國安高層就警告過他們，「一定要處理掉廠裡的中國幹部。」放任抗議群眾動手，是遲早的事，只 是沒想到台商竟成了祭旗的倒楣鬼。問題在於，在越南投資的台商，泰半悶頭搞自己的投資，甚少與越南政府建立「足夠的政商關係」，對更多台商而言，可能還有 「從何做起」之慨。
越南排華反中，不是第一次，也不會是最後一次，尤其在南海爭議愈漸劍拔弩張之際，在處理兩岸愈來愈密的經貿交流之餘，還要協助擴大台商在中國市場之 外的投資，更要成為台商在外打拚的後盾，其中很重要的一點：如何讓國際社會理解台灣和中國的差異，絕對不能讓台商成為中國的人肉盾牌。
今 日出版的《中國時報》報導，台塑河靜鋼鐵廠越南河靜省永安經濟區，號稱東南亞最大鋼鐵廠，昨天下午2時許，廠區內也爆發2000多名越籍勞工與2000名 中國籍勞工爆發衝突，中國勞工遭包圍，傳出有2名中國籍幹部遭打死。另，廠區的主設施高爐附近也發生2起火災，但毀損狀況不明。台塑高層昨均表示「尚無法 證實」。（陳亮諭／綜合報導）
國際中心／綜合報導
越南和大陸因為南海糾紛，部份勞工反華遊行脫序演變成暴動，不少台商工廠遭到縱火、搶劫。許多劫後餘生的台商對此感到「心寒」，並表示未來不考慮加碼在越南投資。
根據中央社報導，一位在越南投資長達20年的李姓經理說：「投資越南20年以來，歷經大小罷工事件，今年最沉重。」他表示，13日晚間至14日清晨共有6批暴徒進入他的工廠洗劫，他們先是用摩托車燈照亮廠區，看到玻璃就砸，工廠內電腦不是被砸就是被搶走，損失慘慘重。
對於何時復工，李經理表示：「只能靜觀其變，看事件何時落幕。」
一位曾姓台商抱怨越南警方反應慢，且事先沒有採取預防措施，讓人懷疑是「放縱民眾」，才會演變成縱火、砸廠房的暴力行為。
對於投資心血在暴動中付諸流水，許多台商考慮不再加碼投資，甚至撤資越南，根據平陽省台商商會社群網站統計指出，2/3的台商家屬表示不願在越南生活。
平陽省遭到暴民破壞最嚴重為神浪工業二區，該區成立於1999年，當時有11家台商投資成立自行車一貫生產園區，最盛時期上繳中央的稅金，直追第一大城胡志明市。
Anti-Chinese rioting in Vietnam turns deadly
A security guard stands near a damaged shoe factory in Vietnam's Binh Duong province. Photo: ReutersA doctor at a hospital in central Vietnam’s Ha Tinh province said five Vietnamese workers and 16 other people described as Chinese were killed in riots on Wednesday night, which stemmed from anger at China’s increasingly assertive stance in a territorial dispute with Vietnam in the resource-rich South China Sea.
“There were about a hundred people sent to the hospital last night. Many were Chinese. More are being sent to the hospital this morning,” the doctor at Ha Tinh General Hospital told Reuters. The death toll had yet to be confirmed by Chinese or Vietnamese authorities on Thursday afternoon.
Smoke rises from the Maxim company building in Binh Duong province on Wednesday. Photo: Reuters
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But in the mayhem, the brunt of the violence was borne by
Taiwanese, Hong Kong and South Korean firms, apparently mistaken by
rioters for mainland Chinese businesses. Foreign factory owners took to
flying Vietnamese or US flags to avoid being swept up in the violence
and looting, reports said.The focus of anger has been China’s decision – despite promises to settle territorial disputes via diplomacy – to deploy an oil rig escorted by a flotilla of coast guard and other ships off the Vietnamese coast, which resulted in ships ramming into each other and the trading of water cannon fire.
Workers wave Vietnamese flags at a demonstration in an industrial zone in Binh Duong province on Wednesday. Photo: ReutersProtests outside the Chinese embassy in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi have also persisted, with suggestions of tacit permission from the Vietnamese government, which usually cracks down swiftly on any form of public dissent.
But analysts say the Vietnamese government is also wary the unrest could veer into calls for democracy, noting initial press reports of the violence were removed from the internet hours later. Chinese authorities have also only allowed official Xinhua news agency reports to be published on the Vietnamese protests.
A photo released by the Philippines foreign ministry
taken on February 25 showing what Manila says are expanded structures on
Johnson South Reef in the South China Sea, which is held by China. Photo: AP"No one knows what really caused the riots - only initially did it seem to be about the Chinese," Truong Huy San, an author and well-known blogger, said after touring the industrial zone. "These were totally uncontrolled crowds."
Adding to the tension in the regions has been growing Philippines protest over China’s reclamation of land at a contested coral reef in the South China Sea.
The Philippines department of foreign affairs on Thursday released a series of photographs gathered by Philippine intelligence sources showing “extensive reclamation” by China on Johnson South Reef, amid claims it plans to build an airstrip on the reef.
China claims almost the entire South China Sea, putting it at odds with Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia.
Grant Newsham, senior research fellow at the Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, said China’s pattern of behaviour has been to “push and test the response” from other countries, in a long-term game to assert control over the South China Sea.
“Ultimately, it is looking to see what it can get away with,” he said. “Its military capability has markedly increased along with its economic heft, and it is less willing to negotiate and back down.”
with New York Times, Reuters
Taiwan and Singapore are paying the price for China’s provocative maritime move
Before things got violent.
Reuters/Kham
Some
19,000 workers in Vietnam rioted yesterday, burning down and damaging
as many as 15 factories in an outburst of rage over China’s decision to deploy an oil rig near a disputed chain of islands.
Regardless of the trigger, the aggression was ultimately misplaced:
Most of the torched facilities were owned by companies based not in
China but in Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea.
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In
Vietnam, mass demonstrations are almost never allowed by the
government. But Hanoi was so incensed by Beijing’s provocation in the
South China Sea that it authorized anti-China protests
in cities across the country. But those officially-sanctioned protests
then spun out of control, giving rise to the violent ransacking of
factories in southern Binh Duong province.
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As
in China two years ago, when protests against Japan’s disputed claim to
a separate island chain turned violent, the recent events in Vietnam
underscore how volatile the consequences can be when governments
stoke nationalist fervor. That’s an especially scary lesson right now in
Asia, where territorial disputes over islands in the East and South
China Sea are laying bare historical enmities and risking armed
conflict.
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The
stand-off between China and Vietnam takes place at the same time as a
parallel dispute between China and the Philippines. A group of Chinese
fisherman were detained by Philippine authorities and accused of
harvesting endangered turtles, and today Manila accused Beijing of reclaiming land on a disputed reef, possibly to build an airstrip or military base.
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Following
the riots in Vietnam, Taiwanese, Japanese, and South Korean businesses
shut their plants in the country and “hung Vietnamese flags outside
their business in a bid to deter looters,” according state-run news site VNExpress.
The unrest threatens the country’s hard-won success in establishing
itself as a low-cost manufacturing center for foreign-owned firms. Even
before the China incident raised tensions, violent labor disputes have periodically broken out at Vietnamese factories.
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Companies in technology and textiles have shifted their operations to Vietnam
in recent years, largely in response to higher labor costs in China and
other developing countries. But that trend won’t continue long if
there’s a plausible chance of those factories getting burned to the
ground.
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