Wednesday, September 3, 2014

This Pizza Proves Vietnam's Sovereignty Over Islands

Students at Hoa Sen (Lotus) University in Ho Chi Minh City (aka Saigon) made this pizza after a dispute with China over control of the Paracel (Hoang Sa) and Spratly (Truong Sa) archipelagos in the South China (or East Vietnam) Sea.
http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/20005/students-make-mapshaped-pizza-to-support-vietnams-sovereignty-over-islands
Tuna from nearby waters was used to shape the archipelagos. Boundaries and details were made from shrimp, chicken and mushrooms. This project was a response to the Haiyang Shiyou 981 standoff, China's deployment of an oil rig in the waters near the Paracel Islands (claimed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan) over the summer. See tuoitrenews for more details.

Here is a map from Wikipedia outlining the disputed archipelagos.
 For some older context here is the Paracel Islands as shown in Zheng He Voyage Map (the group of rocks at the lower right hand corner)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracel_Islands#mediaviewer/File:MAO_KUN_MAP-19.jpg
 "MAO KUN MAP-19" by Mao Kun - mybook. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MAO_KUN_MAP-19.jpg#mediaviewer/File:MAO_KUN_MAP-19.jpg




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