Several countries lay overlapping claims to the energy-rich East and South China Seas. China claims the largest portion of the disputed territory, an area defined by the nine-dotted demarcation suggesting that Beijing lays claim to most of the South China Sea. Other major claimants in the area include the Philippines, Malaysia, Japan and Bruinei. It […]
China’s recent successive trespassing on Vietnamese waters and attacks on its ships have caused an alarm and prompted the non-profit international scholars’ forum Boston Global Forum to call on the United States and the European Union to immediately send naval ships with the mission to observe China’s activities in Vietnamese waters. In early May of […]
To demonstrate their budding alliance in denouncing China’s maritime moves, the Philippine and Vietnamese navies will soon throw a beer and volleyball party in early June on Southwest Cay, and China isn’t among those invited. The get-together will symbolize how once-suspicious neighbors are now working together amid China’s assertiveness in the contested territories, a move […]
Amidst Beijing’s removal of its oil rig from Vietnamese waters last July, Vietnam was able to maintain and even develop a stronger relationship with Japan and the United States. In fact, on July 26, 2014, just ten days after the rig was withdrawn, an international conference was held in Ho Chi Minh City between foreign […]
When the China National Overseas Oil Corp. (CNOOC) started drilling in Vietnamese-claimed waters in the early days of May, the tension within the region over the contested territories grew far more dangerous than what has come before. Amid the growing dispute within Southeast Asian neighbors over maritime boundaries, the United States is urged to demonstrate a […]
The row between the Communist neighbors over the South China Sea has raised tension on several parts of Vietnam. Vietnamese mobs set ablaze a number of foreign factories and vandalized industrial zones in the south of the country in an overwhelming protest towards the Chinese oil drilling in a part of the South China Sea. […]
Tensions between neighbors China and Vietnam quickly escalated during the previous weeks over claims on the disputed waters off Vietnam’s coast. China’s illegal installation of an oil rig within Hoang Sa Islands worsened diplomatic and economic relationship between the two countries to its worst point in decades. The territories are claimed by both China and […]