SCMP/Reuters: South China Sea: Vietnam hopes Beijing ‘will show restraint’ in 2020 after year of tension
* Earlier this year, a Chinese oil survey vessel and its escorts spent months within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone
* ’What China did is very alarming and also kind of threatening not only Vietnam but also other countries,’ Vietnamese diplomat said
Vietnam said it hoped China would show restraint in the South China Sea next year after a Chinese oil survey vessel and its escorts spent months within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone, which Hanoi regarded as a blatant violation of its sovereignty.
Vietnam, the region’s most forceful challenger of China’s extensive maritime claims to the busy waterway, will take on the rotating chairmanship of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in 2020.
“I hope that during our chairmanship China will show restraint and refrain from these activities,” Vietnam’s deputy foreign minister, Nguyen Quoc Dung, said at a lecture at The Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. “What China did is very alarming and also kind of threatening not only Vietnam but also other countries that see the potential of being threatened in the future.”
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Update: South China Sea threat: Vietnam takes aim at ‘coercive’ Beijing in defiant message (Express)
WNU Editor: Someone should tell Vietnam that hope is not a strategy.
Update: China is responding to Malaysia's claims in the South China Sea .... Beijing censures Malaysia over fresh South China Sea claim (Reuters).
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Asia wide sanctions on China are needed. Every country in the area.
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