Weekly Bulletin 30/6-6/7

Vietnam should prepare for all scenarios in China oil spat; China rebukes US envoy South China Sea comments; RIMPAC Drills will help nations work together in a crisis…

11/07/2014

Kerry presses China to abide by maritime laws to ease tensions

In a closed-door session at a high-level gathering of Chinese and American officials on July 9th, Secretary of State John Kerry urged China to follow maritime law in nearby seas to reduce regional tensions, a senior American official said.

10/07/2014

South China Sea: Rightness is mightness, not vice versa

The oil-rig incident is a reminder to China that mightiness does not bring rightness, it is the other way around.

08/07/2014

Vietnam Foreign Ministry asks China to explain fishermen’s arrest

The Vietnam Foreign Ministry’s Consular Department on July 6th asked the Chinese Embassy in Hanoi to give reason for China’s arrest of Vietnamese fishing boat QNg 94912 TS with six fishermen on board on July 3rd.

07/07/2014

Weekly News 7/7-13/7

-(Vietnamplus 11/7) Vietnam welcomes US Senate’s Resolution 412: Vietnam has welcomed the US Senate’s Resolution 412 which calls on China to withdraw its drilling rig and associated maritime forces from their current positions, and to return immediately to the status quo as it existed before May 1st, 2014. -(CSIS) Recent Trends in the South China Sea and U.S. Policy

07/07/2014

Vietnam persists with peaceful solution to East Sea dispute

China’s act of including the entire East Sea in its expanded storm warning area cannot change the fact that Vietnam has adequate legal grounds and historical evidence to prove its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes.

04/07/2014

Vietnamese Foreign Minister holds talks with Philippine counterpart

Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held talks with visiting Philippine Secretary of Foreign Affairs Albert F. del Rosario in Hanoi on July 2nd.

03/07/2014

Weekly Bulletin 23/6-29/6

PCA legal status in Viet Nam acknowledged; China publishes new vertical map; China’s behavior offshore hurts its standing; Philippines, US begin annual joint naval exercises…

02/07/2014

Philippine, US troops hold drills near South China Sea

More than 200 US and Filipino Marines launched a mock amphibious assault on Monday on an enemy beachfront close to a disputed South China Sea outcrop.

01/07/2014

Exposing China’s Artificial Islands Plan in the Spratly’s

Rather than dismissing the concerns of its neighbors as part of a political conspiracy, China should come to understand how its own actions contribute to the perception of a Chinese threat, as evident in its plan to construct artificial islands in the Spratly Archipelago.

30/06/2014