While Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh once said in April this year that Vietnam knew who was its best friend, who was just a partner … implying China’s continuous violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea (South China…
Vietnam is said to be preparing a case in an international arbitration court against China’s unjustified claim in the East Sea (South China Sea- SCS). The time is now considered to ripen for a historic Vietnamese lawsuit as China increasingly…
The East Sea (South China Sea or SCS) is “rising again” despite the COVID-19 pandemic still raging across five continents. Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Defense Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Chi Vinh recently spoke out about developments in the sea over…
Former Harvard Law professor, Professor Ta Van Tai, said that Vietnam is still avoiding the mention of Prime Minister Pham Van Dong’s diplomatic note in 1958, a document that he thinks has caused Hanoi to “put its foot in its…
China still uses a letter from Vietnamee Prime Minister Pham Van Dong to Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai in 1958, saying this is evidence that Vietnam gave up its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracels) and the Truong Sa (Spratlys) in…
In the face of illegal sovereignty claims and aggressive Chinese actions in the East Sea (South China Sea), public opinion in Vietnam has repeatedly raised the issue of Vietnam’s challenging China in international courts. The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA)…
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…
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…
