China’s hegemony dream in caricatures A caricature shows the cow’s tongue of China frightening doves, a symbol of peace, and destroying the whole East Vietnam Sea. Tuoi Tre The Chinese-run Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig, the cow’s tongue line or nine-dash line, and China’s dream of global hegemony will be the subjects of a caricature exhibition to take place in Hanoi next week. Eighty-six caricatures, which have been selected from 200 artworks by nearly 40 local artists from across the country, will be on display at the Exhibition Hall at 16 Ngo Quyen Street in the Vietnamese capital from June 30 to July 7. “The caricatures offer a clear insight into China’s ambition of seizing the entire East Vietnam Sea under the guise of their seemingly peaceful statements,” local artist Ly Truc Dung talked about the upcoming event show.    The cow’s tongue of China frightens doves, a symbol of peace, and destroys the whole East Vietnam Sea. China’s Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig serves as a sharp knife drilling into Vietnam’s continental shelf.  China has declared that it is not in Chinese people's genes to invade other countries. However, the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD), the Song Dynasty (960 to 1279), the Yuan Dynasty (1271–1368), the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), and the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) were all invaders in the past. In 1974, Chinese military units used force to seize the Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago from South Vietnamese armed forces. In 1988, China launched a military attack on Vietnamese forces on Gac Ma Island, part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago, killing 64 Vietnamese soldiers and occupying it ever since. In February 1979, China invaded Vietnam by deploying massive troops along the Vietnam-China border in the north. Recently, they deployed their Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil rig to Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf and have maintained it there since May 1 despite fierce Vietnamese protests. China’s oil rig is “a wolf in sheep’s clothing.” China is pursuing a hegemony dream. “China carries fire in one hand and water in the other.” Though Chinese vessels have rammed Vietnamese ships many times, Beijing held press conferences to fool the world into thinking that their big ships were attacked by smaller Vietnamese boats. Beijing has repeatedly stated that they would like to settle issues related to the East Vietnam Sea through diplomatic measures. However, they said one thing and did another. Evidence has shown that Chinese ships escorting its illegal oil rig in the Vietnamese waters have continuously rammed or fired water cannons at local vessels, which have been trying to peacefully drive the foreign ships away from the sea area. Such attacks have injured 15 Vietnamese fisheries surveillance officers and two fishermen as well as damaged 27 boats of Vietnam’s marine law enforcement and Coast Guard forces and seven fishing boats. Many people have hoped that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), and the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Vietnam Sea (DOC) will join hands to cut off the cow’s tongue of China. Tuoi Tre