China launches “Sansha” leadership despite public opinion

Despite international opposition, on July 23, China held the first session of the first People's Congress of the so-called "Sansha City" on Phu Lam Island, part of Vietnam's Hoang Sa archipelago, to approve related work programs and elect the official leadership of this administrative unit.

This is the latest step in a series of recent activities by China, seriously violating Vietnam's sovereignty.

According to China News Network, after one day of work, the conference elected a person named Phu Giang, 56 years old, Deputy Chief of Staff of Hainan Provincial Military Region, as the first Chairman of the People's Congress and Mr. Tieu Kiet as the first mayor of "Sansha City."

China's illegal detention camp on Phu Lam Island (Photo: Hoan Cau)

Other figures, Truong Canh, Truong Quan and Phung Van Hai, were also elected as vice mayors of the city.

The two positions of Chief Justice of the People's Court and Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuracy of "Sansha City" were respectively assigned to La Nghi Cuong and Tran A Xuan.

The Chairman of “Sansha City” Xiao Jie, a Han Chinese, was born in October 1960, and is originally from Leizhou, Guangdong Province. He is currently a member of the 5th Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Department of Agriculture of Hainan Province.

Previously, Chinese media reported that voters in 15 constituencies in the Xisha (Vietnam's Hoang Sa), Zhongsha and Nansha (Vietnam's Truong Sa) archipelagos went to the polls to elect 45 delegates to the first People's Council of the so-called "Sansha City" illegally established by the Chinese government.

Chinese military authorities have also approved the establishment and deployment of a garrison in the so-called "Sansha City."

The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has repeatedly affirmed that Vietnam has sufficient historical and legal evidence of its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

Most recently, leaders of Khanh Hoa province and Da Nang city spoke out against China's wrong and illegal decision to establish the so-called "Sansha city," which harms the relationship between the two countries and the friendship between the two peoples./.

According to Vietnam+ (NT)