Vietnam demands China withdraw from South China Sea oil bloc
Jul 19, 2019, 10:51 pm SGT
HANOI (DPA) - Vietnam has called on China to remove an oil exploration ship from disputed waters near the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea, the government announced on Friday (July 19).
"Over the last several days, the Chinese survey ship, Haiyang Dizhi 8, and its escorts conducted activities in the southern area of the East Sea that violated Vietnam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf," Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Le Thi Thu Hang said in a statement, using the Vietnamese term for the South China Sea.
Reports in recent days have suggested a large-scale stand-off between several coastguard ships from each country as a Chinese oil exploration ship entered contested waters near the Spratly Islands.
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