How Much Risk Can Vietnam Run in the South China Sea?
2024年12月24日 · Recently, several prominent Chinese scholars have condemned Vietnam’s island expansion activities. They worry that Vietnam’s upgraded airstrips, harbors, and embarkments could allow Hanoi to...
China-Vietnam tensions flare up over South China Sea
2024年6月18日 · China gained control of the Paracel Islands in 1974 from then-South Vietnam after a battle for the archipelago. But Vietnam maintains its sovereignty rights based on the 1982 United Nations...
Territorial Disputes in the South China Sea
2024年9月17日 · China’s sweeping claims of sovereignty over the sea—and the sea’s estimated 11 billion barrels of untapped oil and 190 trillion cubic feet of natural gas —have antagonized competing claimants...
Vietnam quiet, firm and resilient in the South China Sea
2024年12月9日 · Through massive land reclamation projects and the construction of artificial islands equipped with runways, missile systems and radar facilities, Beijing has transformed formerly uninhabitable reefs into formidable military outposts.
territorial disputes in the South China Sea - Encyclopedia Britannica
2024年12月25日 · In 1974 China seized the Paracel Islands from South Vietnam; more than 65 Vietnamese soldiers were killed in the process. China then took possession of Johnson Reef (part of the Spratly Islands) from Vietnam in 1988 and Mischief Reef (also part of the Spratlys), claimed by the Philippines, in 1994.
The State of the South China Sea: Coercion at Sea, Slow ... - The …
2025年1月27日 · During 2024, all was relatively quiet on Vietnam’s eastern front in the East Sea (Vietnam’s name for its area of the South China Sea). Chinese survey ships and aircraft, including a drone ...
Increased risk of conflict in South China Sea, forum warns
2024年10月24日 · Participants at a two-day conference ending on Thursday, hosted by Vietnam, examined how the principle of non-use of force in resolving disputes should be understood and upheld by the claimants...
Vietnam imitating China’s island-making in South China Sea
2024年10月10日 · Vietnam has quietly ramped up its military presence in the South China Sea, matching China’s island-building tactics to assert its territorial claims in the hotly contested maritime area.
South China Sea: Vietnam’s growing Spratly outposts spark …
2024年10月25日 · Vietnam’s progress has been swift and quiet. In the past five months alone, it has reclaimed more than 2 sq km (0.8 square miles) in the contested Spratly Islands, according to Beijing-based...
China rebuts Vietnam's claims to disputed South China Sea islands
2024年1月24日 · The Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday said China's claims to the Paracel and Spratly Islands in the South China Sea were backed by "history" after Vietnam over the weekend repeated it...