That last round was sparked by the cutting of cables of a Vietnamese survey ship, supposedly by a Chinese naval vessel. After a rapprochement with Beijing they were swiftly shut down. From April last year there were nearly a dozen protests, held every Sunday morning in the centre of the city. These past two weeks anti-China protests have been held in Hanoi, albeit under the watchful eyes of police. Bloggers have been arrested in the past for criticism of their government's dealings or supposed capitulation to China. They have also put away other books likely to anger authorities as more general crackdowns are common in times of tension (bars will often be closed early by police in Hanoi for the same reasons).Īnti-China sentiment in Vietnam is sometimes tacitly encouraged as a way to "send a message to Beijing", but it is also closely monitored lest it spill over into anti-government sentiment. A bookshop owner who had been visited by the Ministry of Information said things were "more sensitive now because of the tension with Vietnam and China".
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