China’s President Xi Jinping (left) walks with To Lam, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam ... Pakistan, and North Korea and may even be lower than its relationship with ...

South Korea and Vietnam said on Wednesday ... have been building their presence in Vietnam for years as the costs of manufacturing in China rose along with political risks and competition.

In February, Chinese warships held live-fire drills in waters near Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin, known as the Beibu Gulf in China, after Hanoi published a map defining its territorial claims there.