--- title: Vietnam: PM Demands Lawful Behavior After Anti-Chinese Riots description: Vietnam’s ruling communist party appears to be in damage control after riots lead to the destruction of hundreds of foreign-owned factories canonical: https://time.com/102481/vietnam-china-riots-escalate/ author: David Stout article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-16T10:12:29.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:52:52.584Z article:section: World og:title: Vietnam: PM Demands Lawful Behavior After Anti-Chinese Riots og:description: Vietnam’s ruling communist party appears to be in damage control after riots lead to the destruction of hundreds of foreign-owned factories og:url: https://time.com/102481/vietnam-china-riots-escalate/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78a03d6a95ecbd3d/69868fd21eebf74c0a370eed/post-riots.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: A security guard stands near a damaged Chinese owned shoe factory in Vietnam's southern Binh Duong province og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Vietnam: PM Demands Lawful Behavior After Anti-Chinese Riots twitter:description: Vietnam’s ruling communist party appears to be in damage control after riots lead to the destruction of hundreds of foreign-owned factories twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78a03d6a95ecbd3d/69868fd21eebf74c0a370eed/post-riots.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Vietnamese PM: Fight On for the Fatherland, Just Do It Legally > Sponsored content. 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A security guard stands near a damaged Chinese owned shoe factory in Vietnam's southern Binh Duong province May 14, 2014. Reuters by [David Stout](https://time.com/author/david-stout/) ## David Stout May 16, 2014 10:12 AM UTC Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung encouraged his fellow Vietnamese on Thursday to defend the country’s territorial integrity but with the appropriate behavior, after unchecked nationalist rage escalated into horrific riots. In an unusual move, the Premier reached out via text message to almost the entire nation, urging citizens to continue protecting the “fatherland,” albeit in more a lawful manner. “The Prime Minister requests and calls on every Vietnamese to boost their patriotism to defend the fatherland’s sacred sovereignty with actions in line with the law,” read the message, according to the [Associated Press](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/riots-vietnam-leave-1-chinese-dead-90-injured). “Bad elements should not be allowed to instigate extremist actions that harm the interests and image of the country.” The nationwide appeal comes after a spate of anti-Chinese riots exploded across Vietnam this week in response to Beijing’s placement of a state-owned oil rig in highly contested waters off the country’s coast. Hundreds of factories were reportedly razed in the suburbs of Ho Chi Minh City, while a steel project in central Ha Tinh province was rocked by mob violence targeting Chinese laborers. Varying reports surfaced Thursday that Chinese nationals may have been killed during the upheaval. “If \[the Vietnamese leadership\] has any chance of gaining the international support it needs to resolve this dispute, it absolutely must do a better job of communicating to its own people and to the world what exactly is going on,” Jonathan D. London, a professor and Vietnamese scholar at Hong Kong’s City University, tells TIME. On Friday, officials claimed to have arrested more than 600 people in and around Ho Chi Minh City and another 78 in Ha Tinh province in response to the rioting. During a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, Chinese officials appeared unconvinced by the official response and pinned blame for the carnage firmly on the Vietnamese authorities. “It is worth pointing out that the Vietnamese side has an inescapable responsibility for the beating, smashing, looting and burning targeted at China and other countries,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying. Chinese netizens expressed similar sentiments online. “The Vietnamese government is now deliberately indulging bad people to make trouble,” Haoyun2013 wrote on popular social-media outlet Sina Weibo. On Friday, Vietnamese state media attempted to return the spotlight to the unresolved crisis festering in the South China Sea. Vietnam’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh told his Chinese counterpart during a phone call that Beijing must recall the drilling platform and the 100 vessels escorting it from “Vietnamese seas.” “He stressed that China’s act seriously damaged the mutual trust between the two countries as well as Vietnamese people’s sentiment \[and\] runs counter to the agreements reached by their high-ranking leaders,” read a [statement](http://www.mofa.gov.vn/en/nr040807104143/nr111027144142/ns140516151257/view) by Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But despite this verbal sparring, the two countries appear to have made nascent moves toward behind-the-scenes reconciliation. China vowed Thursday to deploy a diplomatic envoy to Vietnam, while Hanoi reportedly sent Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son to China for a three-day visit earlier this week. Chinese state media remain as bellicose as ever, though. Communist Party mouthpiece the [_Global Times_](http://opinion.huanqiu.com/editorial/2014-05/4995475.html)dismissed Vietnam’s continued calls to remove the platform in its latest vitriolic article about the crisis. “China will never give in to her \[Vietnam\], and she doesn’t have the strength to force China to back off,” read an editorial on Thursday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/102481/vietnam-china-riots-escalate/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/102481/vietnam-china-riots-escalate/"},"headline":"Vietnamese PM: Fight On for the Fatherland, Just Do It Legally","datePublished":"2014-05-16T10:12:29.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:52:52.584Z","description":"Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party appears to be in damage control after an orgy of violence led to the destruction of hundreds of foreign-owned factories across the country, with Chinese businesses particularly in the crosshairs","url":"https://time.com/102481/vietnam-china-riots-escalate/","keywords":["Vietnam","China","Beijing","South China Sea","riots","southeast asia","Hanoi"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78a03d6a95ecbd3d/69868fd21eebf74c0a370eed/post-riots.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"David Stout","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/david-stout/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78a03d6a95ecbd3d/69868fd21eebf74c0a370eed/post-riots.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A security guard stands near a damaged Chinese owned shoe factory in Vietnam's southern Binh Duong province","caption":"A security guard stands near a damaged Chinese owned shoe factory in Vietnam's southern Binh Duong province","creditText":"Reuters","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/102481/vietnam-china-riots-escalate/","name":"Vietnamese PM: Fight On for the Fatherland, Just Do It Legally"}}]}] ```