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The Chinese survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 8 along with its coast guard and paramilitary escorts left Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone on October 23, ending a standoff with Vietnamese ships that began more than four months earlier. The de-escalation seems to have been in response to the departure a day earlier of the drilling rig Hakuryu 5 from Vietnam’s oil and gas Block 06-01, which is operated by Russia’s Rosneft.

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• Three-day meeting in Beijing ends with pledges to continue working towards a peaceful solution in the disputed waters
• Talks follow prolonged stand-off in resource-rich waters

Laura Zhou 

Published: 10:15pm, 29 Nov, 2019 SCMP

China and Vietnam said that they would continue to look for ways to peacefully resolve their conflict over the South China Sea at the end of a three-day meeting to discuss border issues.

Les Etats-Unis fourniront un navire au Vietnam pour “renforcer sa présence” en mer de Chine méridionale

Soumis par Cap Vietnam.

 Les États-Unis fourniront au Vietnam un autre navire pour renforcer sa capacité de patrouiller dans ses eaux territoriales, a annoncé mercredi le secrétaire d’Etat américain à la Défense, Mark Esper, en visite de travail dans le pays de l’Asie du Sud-Est.

Cette déclaration d’Esper intervient dans un contexte marqué par des tensions grandissantes entre Hanoï et Pékin sur fond de leur différend territorial en mer de l’Est (mer de Chine méridionale).

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Al Jareeza, Nov. 22, 2019

China confirms it tracked US ships and urges United States to stop its ‘provocative actions’ in the disputed waters.

The threat of China should bring two former enemies into a tight security relationship.

Vietnam is a country bursting with youthful energy. The nearly 100 million Vietnamese have an average age of just 31, and despite living under single-party communist rule, they have a thriving capitalist economy that may hit 10% growth this year. And, of great importance to the U.S. and its allies, Vietnam is strategically positioned along the western side of the South China Sea, and has a series of maritime disputes with its neighbors, especially China.

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TĐH: Mình thấy bản tin RFA nói về việc phản đối chính quyền VN làm phiền những người mang áo thun No-U chống đường lưỡi bò của Trung quốc. Mình nghĩ là chẳng tự nhiên mà nhà nước làm phiền những người mang áo đó, phải có việc gì đằng sau mà quý vị biết vấn đề chẳng chịu nói ra, nên mình tìm thêm thông tin trên mạng. Thấy có bài “Khôi hài ‘thư ngỏ’ về áo No-U’” có đưa ra vài lập luận thấy có lý. Dù không biết rõ mọi chi tiết về vấn đề này, mình nghĩ cũng nên đăng thông tin hai chiều để sự việc nghe co lý hơn một chút cho độc giả.

Vietnam Activists Urge Government to Back Off Over China Protest T-Shirt

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Nov 16, 2019, 07:35pm Forbes

Panos MourdoukoutasContributor 

That’s the message Hanoi sent recently to Beijing, taking the lead once again, among its neighbors, in the fight to contain China’s South China Sea ambitions.

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Thứ Tư, 13/11/2019 16:38 PM GMT+7

(VTC News) – Phát biểu của ông Cảnh Sảng vu cáo Việt Nam “chiếm đảo” là sự leo thang mới trong những bịa đặt, vu cáo trắng trợn của Trung Quốc liên quan Biển Đông.