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Category: East Sea Dispute

  • China-Vietnam row hits energy groups

    Financial Times, June 27, 2012 5:48 pm By Ben Bland in Jakarta and Gwen Robinson in  Bangkok ©AP Some of the world’s biggest energy companies, including ExxonMobil and  Gazprom, have been thrust into the  deteriorating territorial dispute between China and Vietnam in the  resource-rich South China Sea. Vietnam on Wednesday accused China of acting “illegally”…

  • Vietnam rejects Chinese protest over island claims

    Vietnam rejects Chinese protest over island claims Associated Press, Hanoi, Vietnam | World | Fri, 06/22/2012 11:52 AM Vietnam has rejected China’s protest over a new Vietnamese law that reasserts territorial claims over two South China Sea island groups China and other countries consider their own. The Chinese accusations that Vietnam’s law was illegal and…

  • Trip by Panetta Affirms Shifting U.S. Stance — by Elizabeth Leader

    U.S. defense secretary Leon Panetta sits next to USNS Richard E. Byrd chief mate Fred Cullen as they take a water taxi to the ship in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam (Jim Watson/Courtesy Reuters). Elizabeth Leader is a Research Associate for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. The visit of Secretary of Defense Leon…

  • US Defense Secretary: military aid to Hanoi conditioned on improved human rights

    Excerpts from the Associated Press: Panetta works to repair U.S.-Vietnam ties during historic visit June 4, 2012, 7:37 p.m. EDT McClatchy/Tribune – MCT Information Services … “[Vietnam’s Minister of Defense Phung Quang] Thanh called on the Obama administration to lift a ban on the sale of weapons and other lethal military equipment to Vietnam, implying…

  • Viet Khang, Songwriter with a Conscience

    Viet Khang, Songwriter with a Conscience

    Jailed for expressing his patriotic feelings  Viet Khang, a songwriter currently detained by the public security police without charges, has quickly become the symbol and voice of conscience of the post-war generation of Vietnamese.  His arrest has prompted a movement among Vietnamese artists and intellectuals in Vietnam and overseas calling for his immediate and unconditional…