Paracel Islands News
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Vietnam’s government said it has protested an incident in which a Chinese ship fired on a Vietnamese fishing vessel last week in the area known as the Paracel Islands.
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A Vietnamese boat with 11 crewmembers was seized by China yesterday while fishing around the Paracel Islands, Lao Dong newspaper reported, without saying where it got the information.
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Vietnam is demanding that China halt the organization of a sailboat race to the disputed Paracel Islands, according to a statement on the government’s website posted today.
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China National Offshore Oil Corp. offered foreign companies oil and gas blocks that lie near waters also claimed by Vietnam and Japan as tensions flare among the countries over rights to resources in the area.
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China will establish a military garrison on a disputed island in the South China Sea, part of an increased assertiveness in the resource-rich waters that’s straining ties with nations in the region and the U.S.
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“Are you going to Scarborough Shoal? China, Phils, Vietnam and Brunei…”
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In asserting its claims to the tiny islands, rocks and reefs in the South China Sea, China points to records of its ancient mariners. Today, those waters are far more important to China than in the age of the sail.
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China’s first deep-water drilling rig began operations near islands in the South China Sea in a move to assert Beijing’s territorial claims as travel agencies suspended tours to the Philippines amid safety concerns.
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To China, the world’s biggest energy consumer, another Saudi Arabia of oil may lie beneath the ocean to its south. Escalating regional tensions mean large-scale drilling may be slipping further into the future.
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A U.S. warship docked in Vietnam today as part of weeklong naval exercises that highlight a more assertive American role in the region that has irked China.
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