China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on April 21 that it had “strictly dealt with” in response to what it called “Vietnam illegally claiming sovereignty in the South China Sea [East Sea in Vietnamese],” according to Reuters and The Beijing…
China’s administrative declarations and decisions, as well as legal actions on the so-called “Sansha City” and assertive actions in the field, have marked the strengthening of its claim of four groups of islands and reefs as Beijing’s new strategy to…
The situation of the East Sea (South China Sea) is still very hot by the continuous aggressive actions of China. After announcing the establishment of the “Xisha” and “Nansha” administrative bodies of the Hoang Sa (Paracels) and the Truong Sa…
Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry said on April 19 that China announced the establishment of the Xisha and Nansha districts to manage the Hoang Sa (Paracels) and the Truong Sa (Spratlys) in the East Sea (South China Sea). “Vietnam has repeatedly affirmed…
China is having a lot of decisive calculations in the East Sea (South China Sea), and other countries in the region and the world, including Vietnam, ASEAN and the US need a “stronger reaction,” according to some observers in politics…
China’s state-controlled media has accused Vietnam of “encroaching” on their territorial waters and warned that Washington’s “support” for Hanoi will escalate tensions in the East Sea (South China Sea), at the same time. China brought Haiyang Dizhi 8 seismic ship back…
In the context of China taking advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to overwhelm the lawful sovereign states in the East Sea (South China Sea), a question arises if armed conflict occurs in the disputed waters between Vietnam and China, what…
Since Xi Jinping became President in 2013, Beijing has been trying to promote his new slogan: “Chinese Dream” in Chinese characters. Liu Ming Fu, former Chinese army colonel, said: “President Xi Jinping’s dream is a stronger nation with a mighty…
Three days after the US Department of State issued an announcement to express its concern about the Chinese sinking of a Vietnamese fishing vessel in the Hoang Sa (Paracels), on April 9, the US Department of Defense expressed deeply concerned…
Regarding the event “The Vietnamese delegation to the United Nations sent a diplomatic note on March 30, 2020 to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, rejecting China’s claims in the East Sea (South China Sea),” Researcher Truong Nhan Tuan from…