REUTERS APR 14, 2020 HANOI – A Chinese ship embroiled in a standoff with Vietnamese vessels last year has returned to waters near Vietnam as the United States accused China of pushing its presence in the South China Sea while other claimants are pre-occupied with the coronavirus. Vietnamese vessels last year spent months shadowing the Chinese Haiyang Dizhi 8 survey vessel in resource-rich waters that are a potential global flashpoint as the United States challenges China’s sweeping maritime claims. Continue reading on CVD >>

By Viet Anh   April 7, 2020 | 09:00 pm GMT+7 VNExpress

Vietnam has rejected and protested China sending two diplomatic notes to the U.N., laying claim to Vietnamese territories in the East Sea. One of the diplomatic notes was sent by China to the United Nations (U.N.) on March 23 in response to the Philippines. It claimed illegally that China has sovereignty over the Spratly Islands and adjacent waters, has sovereignty and jurisdiction rights over relevant sea areas, seabeds and subsoil. It also said that it has “historic rights” in the East Sea, internationally known as the South China Sea, based on “historical and legal evidences.” Continue reading on CVD >>

By Jim Gomez | AP Washington PostApril 8, 2020 at 5:53 p.m. GMT+7 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines on Wednesday expressed solidarity with Vietnam after Hanoi protested what it said was the ramming and sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat by a Chinese coast guard ship in the disputed South China Sea. Continue reading on CVD >>

vietnamnet – 06/04/2020 22:57 GMT+7

Người phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao Mỹ Morgan Ortagus nêu rõ: “Chúng tôi quan ngại sâu sắc trước thông tin về việc Trung Quốc đâm chìm 1 tàu cá của Việt Nam ở gần quần đảo Hoàng Sa”.

Phản đối Trung Quốc triển khai 2 trạm nghiên cứu ở Trường SaTrung Quốc thả 8 ngư dân Quảng NgãiViệt Nam phản ứng việc Trung Quốc đăng ‘đường 9 đoạn’ trên Facebook Đại sứ quán

Bà Morgan Ortagus nhấn mạnh, đây là vụ việc mới nhất trong một loạt hành động của Trung Quốc nhằm khẳng định những tuyên bố hàng hải trái phép và gây thiệt hại cho các nước láng giềng Đông Nam Á ở Biển Đông.

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(VTC News) – Bắc Kinh xây dựng phi pháp 2 trạm nghiên cứu trên quần đảo Trường Sa là hành vi “trộm cướp”, vi phạm trắng trợn chủ quyền hợp pháp của Việt Nam.

Việt Nam không công nhận ‘đường 9 đoạn’ của Trung Quốc tại Biển Đông
Hội thảo tại Pháp về hợp tác vì an ninh và phát triển ở Biển Đông

Trung Quốc vừa thông tin việc xây dựng 2 trạm nghiên cứu trên đá Subi và đá Chữ thập (thuộc quần đảo Trường Sa của Việt Nam), trong bối cảnh cả thế giới đang vật lộn chống Covid-19.

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Malaysia, Vietnam and China have been locked in secretive months-long naval standoff over energy resources

BY RICHARD JAVAD HEYDARIAN MARCH 8, 2020 ASIATIMES

HANOI – A new three-way dispute has broken into the open in the South China Sea, one that brings two Association of Southeast Asian Nation (ASEAN) members into conflict along with China over coveted energy resources.

Malaysia, Vietnam and China have for weeks been locked in a quiet naval standoff in a disputed southwestern area of the sea, marking a new source of acrimony in ASEAN and Beijing’s latest bid to block Southeast Asian claimants from tapping the maritime area’s rich bounty of oil and gas.

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“A closer look at the significance of a development that has long been in the works. A previous photo of U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam. Credit: Flickr This week, a U.S. aircraft carrier will make a port call in Vietnam’s coastal city of Da Nang – just the second visit of its kind since the end of the Vietnam War, following the first in early 2018. Though the move has long been in the works and is just a single engagement, it nonetheless bears noting given its significance for U.S.-Vietnam ties and Washington’s regional approach more generally. Continue reading on CVD >>

PUBLISHED: JANUARY 30, 2020

 

For several weeks starting in late December, Indonesian media was dominated by reports of a flotilla of Chinese fishing and coast guard vessels operating without permission in the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The situation strained bilateral relations, presented President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo with the first foreign policy crisis of his second term, and forced Indonesia to confront the uncomfortable fact that it is a party to the South China Sea disputes even if it does not claim any contested islands or reefs. But the public reporting from Indonesian officials was also contradictory and incomplete, leaving the scale and timeline of the standoff unclear.

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OCCUPATION AND ISLAND BUILDING

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Five claimants occupy nearly 70 disputed reefs and islets spread across the South China Sea. They have built more than 90 outposts on these contested features, many of which have seen expansion in recent years. AMTI has gathered satellite imagery of each outpost, along with other relevant information, to document their current status and any changes they have undergone in recent years. Explore the database below.

Click on the name of each country to see.

It’s a mission that has existed in the shadows, seizing control little-by-little – and now China’s ultimate plan is almost complete.

The battle for the South China Sea is heating up. Vietnam. Malaysia. The Philippines. All have drawn lines in the sandbars against China. But it may already be too late.

December 13, 2019  |  AMTI BriefUpdate: China Risks Flare-up over Malaysian, Vietnamese Gas Resources

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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