Intentional Rammings
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Anti-China Riots in Vietnam Leave at Least 21 Dead
Anti China Protesters, China, Intentional Rammings, Mob Violence, Oil, Oil Rig, Paracels, South China Sea Dispute, Vietnam, Water CannonAt least 21 people were killed as anti-China riots in southern Vietnam escalated and spread to the center of the country on Thursday. A doctor in Ha Tinh province described five of the dead as Vietnamese workers and others as Chinese. He said they were among roughly 100 people sent to his hospital, Reuters reports. […]
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Beijing Pays for South China Sea Assertiveness
Anti China Protesters, China, Intentional Rammings, Mob Violence, Oil, Oil Rig, Paracels, South China Sea Dispute, Vietnam, Water CannonSoutheast Asian nations look helpless to counter Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea—but it would be misguided to think China isn’t wary of its own political toll, writes Andrew Browne in this week’s China’s World column: Nothing seems to illustrate the impotence of Southeast Asian nations more than their glacial progress toward a […]
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Competing Stakes Hamper Development of South China Sea
Anti China Protesters, China, Intentional Rammings, Mob Violence, Oil, Oil Rig, Paracels, South China Sea Dispute, Vietnam, Water CannonBEIJING–A Vietnam-China standoff over an oil rig exemplifies only a part of the interlocking interests–from the resources under its seabed to the trade routes on its surface–that trouble the waters of the South China Sea. The sea is believed to contain significant resources, but disputes over its islands, reefs and atolls–control of which gives the […]
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Beijing adopts contrasting approaches in South China Sea spats
China, Domestic Policy, Illegal Fishing, Intentional Rammings, Oil Rig, Paracels, Philippines, Poaching, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, VietnamChina is adopting very different approaches to disputes with Vietnam and the Philippines in the contested South China Sea, reports Duowei News, an outlet run by overseas Chinese. On May 4, Chinese and Vietnamese naval ships engaged in a tense standoff near a Chinese oil rig in disputed waters off the Paracel Islands in the […]
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China ‘determined’ to change status quo in South China Sea
The confrontation began on May 2 when the state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation placed its deep sea drilling rig HD-981 in disputed waters of the South China Sea. As Vietnam objected, China deployed some 80 ships, including seven military vessels, along with aircraft to support the rig. Hanoi reacted by dispatching 29 ships to […]
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South China Sea Clash: Asia’s Dangerous Game
ADIZ, Air Defense Identification Zone, China, Diaoyu, Intentional Rammings, Japan, Oil Rig, Paracels, Philippines, Poaching, Sout China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, Vietnam, Water CannonCollisions between ships of Vietnam and China following the latter’s installation of a deep water oil rig in the disputed South China Sea mark a dangerous escalation of simmering tensions. Simultaneous to this fracas near the contested Paracel Islands, maritime authorities of the Philippines have arrested Chinese fishermen close to another coveted portion of the […]
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South China Sea becoming ‘boiling pot’ amid rising tensions, analysts say
China, Intentional Rammings, Joint Military Exercises, Mutual Defense, Oil Rig, Paracels, Philippines, Poaching, Spratlys, USA, Vietnam, Water CannonThe escalating stand-offs between China and Vietnam, and between Beijing and Manila, will push Southeast Asian nations to build up their maritime capabilities, resulting in heightened tensions in the South China Sea, observers say. The nations were also likely to embrace a stronger United States presence in the region to Beijing’s dismay, they said, pointing […]
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Intl community should never accept China’s behavior in South China Sea
China, Illegal Fishing, Intentional Rammings, Oil Rig, Paracels, Philippines, Poaching, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, VietnamChinese and Vietnamese patrol ships are squaring off in the South China Sea—a situation which could develop into a military clash if one false step is taken. It is, therefore, important for both nations to exercise restraint. Over the last several days, many Chinese and Vietnamese ships rammed into each other near the Paracel Islands […]
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Vietnam sea spat part of China’s larger strategy: experts
China, Illegal Fishing, Intentional Rammings, Oil Rig, Paracels, Philippines, Poaching, South China Sea Dispute, Spratlys, VietnamChina sending an oil rig to waters disputed with Vietnam is a move to assert its legal claim and practical hold over contested territory whatever the short-term political and diplomatic costs, analysts say — but could play into Washington’s hands. Beijing’s controversial move to dispatch the deep-water rig along with a reported 70 vessels triggered […]
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China and Vietnam in South China Sea: What’s Really Going on?
Four decades since their most high-profile maritime clash, China and Vietnam are at it again. When China moved a massive oil rig within disputed waters earlier this month, Vietnam demanded the Chinese state oil company remove it. The US promised to investigate and later criticised the move but the rig has stayed put and the […]