Chinese sailors in the South China Sea are now acting like pirates of old. Last month they boarded a Vietnamese fishing boat, beat up the crew and stole their catch and their equipment before sailing off. At least they didn’t make the Vietnamese crew walk the plank.
But Chinese pirates have something that Bluebeard never had, a sizable PR team. China’s state media and foreign ministry claimed the whole thing was handled professionally and with restraint.
Photos and information exclusively obtained by the Global Times on Saturday show that Chinese authorities’ interception, boarding, inspection and expulsion of a Vietnamese boat which illegally entered waters near China’s Xisha Islands on September 29 were conducted with restraint and in full accordance with the law…
Chinese Foreign Ministry was quoted by Reuters on Tuesday as saying that “Vietnamese fishing boats”…
