Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Remarks on China Offering Help to Search For and Rescue Vietnamese Lost Planes

~ Trần Đình Hoành

China Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying’s Remarks on China Offering Help to Search For and Rescue Vietnamese Lost Planes
2016/06/17

Q: According to Vietnamese media reports, a Vietnamese air force Su-30 plane went missing over the Beibu Gulf on June 14 with one pilot on board. Vietnam then sent a coast guard search and rescue aircraft which also went missing on June 16 with 9 search and rescue personnel on board. Officials from the Vietnamese defense ministry notified this to the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam, and asked China for help in the search process and to provide convenience for Vietnamese planes and vessels on the search operation. Please brief us on the latest development.

A: The Chinese side attaches great importance to this incident, and has deployed all-round forces to search for and rescue the missing planes and people at the request of the Vietnamese side in the spirit of humanism. Up to this afternoon, China’s maritime search and rescue center and China’s coast guard bureau have sent 5 vessels, and the Chinese navy has also deployed 4 vessels to the Beibu Gulf to join Vietnam in the search and rescue efforts. It is hoped that the missing planes and people on board can be found as soon as possible.

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I am an attorney in the Washington DC area, with a Doctor of Law in the US, attended the master program at the National School of Administration of Việt Nam, and graduated from Sài Gòn University Law School. I aso studied philosophy at the School of Letters in Sài Gòn. . I have worked as an anti-trust attorney for Federal Trade Commission and a litigator for a fortune-100 telecom company in Washington DC. I have taught law courses for legal professionals in Việt Nam and still counsel VN government agencies on legal matters. I have founded and managed businesses for me and my family, both law and non-law. I have published many articles on national newspapers and radio stations in Việt Nam. In 1989 I was one of the founding members of US-VN Trade Council, working to re-establish US-VN relationship. Since the early 90's, I have established and managed VNFORUM and VNBIZ forum on VN-related matters; these forums are the subject of a PhD thesis by Dr. Caroline Valverde at UC-Berkeley and her book Transnationalizing Viet Nam. I translate poetry and my translation of "A Request at Đồng Lộc Cemetery" is now engraved on a stone memorial at Đồng Lộc National Shrine in VN. I study and teach the Bible and Buddhism. In 2009 I founded and still manage dotchuoinon.com on positive thinking and two other blogs on Buddhism. In 2015 a group of friends and I founded website CVD - Conversations on Vietnam Development (cvdvn.net). I study the art of leadership with many friends who are religious, business and government leaders from many countries. I have written these books, published by Phu Nu Publishing House in Hanoi: "Positive Thinking to Change Your Life", in Vietnamese (TƯ DUY TÍCH CỰC Thay Đổi Cuộc Sống) (Oct. 2011) "10 Core Values for Success" (10 Giá trị cốt lõi của thành công) (Dec. 2013) "Live a Life Worth Living" (Sống Một Cuộc Đời Đáng Sống) (Oct. 2023) I practice Jiu Jitsu and Tai Chi for health, and play guitar as a hobby, usually accompanying my wife Trần Lê Túy Phượng, aka singer Linh Phượng.

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