Chuyên mục: Biển Đông (SCS)

Chinese survey ship returns to waters off Vietnam amid virus ‘distraction’ charges

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REUTERS APR 14, 2020

HANOI – A Chinese ship embroiled in a standoff with Vietnamese vessels last year has returned to waters near Vietnam as the United States accused China of pushing its presence in the South China Sea while other claimants are pre-occupied with the coronavirus.

Vietnamese vessels last year spent months shadowing the Chinese Haiyang Dizhi 8 survey vessel in resource-rich waters that are a potential global flashpoint as the United States challenges China’s sweeping maritime claims. Tiếp tục đọc “Chinese survey ship returns to waters off Vietnam amid virus ‘distraction’ charges” →

Vietnam rejects China’s sovereignty claims over Vietnamese territories

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By Viet Anh   April 7, 2020 | 09:00 pm GMT+7 VNExpress

Vietnam rejects China's sovereignty claims over Vietnamese territories

A Vietnamese soldier at the Spratly Islands. Photo courtesy of the World & Vietnam Report under Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vietnam has rejected and protested China sending two diplomatic notes to the U.N., laying claim to Vietnamese territories in the East Sea.

One of the diplomatic notes was sent by China to the United Nations (U.N.) on March 23 in response to the Philippines. It claimed illegally that China has sovereignty over the Spratly Islands and adjacent waters, has sovereignty and jurisdiction rights over relevant sea areas, seabeds and subsoil. It also said that it has “historic rights” in the East Sea, internationally known as the South China Sea, based on “historical and legal evidences.”

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Philippines backs Vietnam after China sinks fishing boat

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FILE - In this April 12, 2018, file photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, the Liaoning aircraft carrier is accompanied by navy frigates and submarines conducting an exercises in the South China Sea. Despite the coronavirus outbreak, China is keeping up with military exercises around Taiwan at the northern edge of the South China Sea. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP, File)
FILE – In this April 12, 2018, file photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, the Liaoning aircraft carrier is accompanied by navy frigates and submarines conducting an exercises in the South China Sea. Despite the coronavirus outbreak, China is keeping up with military exercises around Taiwan at the northern edge of the South China Sea. (Li Gang/Xinhua via AP, File) (Associated Press)
By Jim Gomez | AP Washington Post
April 8, 2020 at 5:53 p.m. GMT+7

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines on Wednesday expressed solidarity with Vietnam after Hanoi protested what it said was the ramming and sinking of a Vietnamese fishing boat by a Chinese coast guard ship in the disputed South China Sea.

The Department of Foreign Affairs in Manila expressed deep concern over the reported April 3 sinking of the boat carrying eight fishermen off the Paracel Islands. The incident happened at a time when a common approach was crucial in confronting the coronavirus pandemic, it said.

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Mỹ lên án Trung Quốc đâm chìm tàu cá Việt Nam ở Biển Đông

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vietnamnet – 06/04/2020 22:57 GMT+7

Người phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao Mỹ Morgan Ortagus nêu rõ: “Chúng tôi quan ngại sâu sắc trước thông tin về việc Trung Quốc đâm chìm 1 tàu cá của Việt Nam ở gần quần đảo Hoàng Sa”.

Phản đối Trung Quốc triển khai 2 trạm nghiên cứu ở Trường Sa
Trung Quốc thả 8 ngư dân Quảng Ngãi
Việt Nam phản ứng việc Trung Quốc đăng ‘đường 9 đoạn’ trên Facebook Đại sứ quán

Bà Morgan Ortagus nhấn mạnh, đây là vụ việc mới nhất trong một loạt hành động của Trung Quốc nhằm khẳng định những tuyên bố hàng hải trái phép và gây thiệt hại cho các nước láng giềng Đông Nam Á ở Biển Đông.

Mỹ lên án Trung Quốc đâm chìm tàu cá Việt Nam ở Biển Đông
Người phát ngôn Bộ Ngoại giao Mỹ Morgan Ortagus

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Trung Quốc xây 2 ‘trạm nghiên cứu’ trái phép ở Trường Sa giữa đại dịch: Có khác nào ‘ăn trộm’?

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(VTC News) – Bắc Kinh xây dựng phi pháp 2 trạm nghiên cứu trên quần đảo Trường Sa là hành vi “trộm cướp”, vi phạm trắng trợn chủ quyền hợp pháp của Việt Nam.

Trung Quốc vừa thông tin việc xây dựng 2 trạm nghiên cứu trên đá Subi và đá Chữ thập (thuộc quần đảo Trường Sa của Việt Nam), trong bối cảnh cả thế giới đang vật lộn chống Covid-19.

Xung quanh vấn đề này, trả lời VTC News, GS-TS Nguyễn Quang Ngọc, Viện trưởng Viện Việt Nam học và Khoa học Phát triển, ĐHQGHN cho rằng, đây là hành động nằm trong âm mưu độc chiếm biển Đông của Trung Quốc.

Trung Quốc xây 2 ‘trạm nghiên cứu’ trái phép ở Trường Sa giữa đại dịch - 1

Trung Quốc vừa cho xây dựng phi pháp 2 trạm nghiên cứu trên đá Chữ Thập và Su Bi. (Ảnh: Getty Images)

– Khi mà cả thế giới cũng như Việt Nam đang gồng mình chống đại dịch Covid-19, vì sao Trung Quốc lại chọn thời điểm này để ra tay?

Cả thế giới đang dồn sức vào cuộc chiến chống đại dịch Covid-19. Việt Nam chúng ta cũng căng mình tập trung vào trận chiến này.

Bắc Kinh lợi dụng bối cảnh này để “ra tay” trên biển Đông. Đó là hành động có chủ đích, thể hiện bản chất thâm hiểm, cơ hội chủ nghĩa của chính quyền Bắc Kinh. Tiếp tục đọc “Trung Quốc xây 2 ‘trạm nghiên cứu’ trái phép ở Trường Sa giữa đại dịch: Có khác nào ‘ăn trộm’?” →

Hydrogen and decarbonisation of gas: false dawn or silver bullet?

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This Insight continues the OIES series considering the future of gas. The clear message from previous papers is that on the (increasingly certain) assumption that governments in major European gas markets remain committed to decarbonisation targets, the existing natural gas industry is under threat. It is therefore important to develop a decarbonisation narrative leading to a low- or zero-carbon gas implementation plan.

Previous papers have considered potential pathways for gas to decarbonise, specifically considering biogas and biomethane , and power-to-gas (electrolysis) . This paper goes on to consider the potential for production, transport and use of hydrogen in the decarbonising energy system. Previous papers predominately focused on Europe, which has been leading the way in decarbonisation. Hydrogen is now being considered more widely in various countries around the world, so this paper reflects that wider geographical coverage. Tiếp tục đọc “Hydrogen and decarbonisation of gas: false dawn or silver bullet?” →

Three-way fray spells toil and trouble in South China Sea

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Malaysia, Vietnam and China have been locked in secretive months-long naval standoff over energy resources
By RICHARD JAVAD HEYDARIAN
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A Malaysian naval officer looks out over the South China Sea. Photo: Facebook

What Does a Second Aircraft Carrier Visit Mean for US-Vietnam Relations?

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A closer look at the significance of a development that has long been in the works.

Prashanth Parameswaran By Prashanth Parameswaran March 04, 2020 The Dilplomat
What Does a Second Aircraft Carrier Visit Mean for US-Vietnam Relations?
A previous photo of U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam. Credit: FlickrThis week, a U.S. aircraft carrier will make a port call in Vietnam’s coastal city of Da Nang – just the second visit of its kind since the end of the Vietnam War, following the first in early 2018. Though the move has long been in the works and is just a single engagement, it nonetheless bears noting given its significance for U.S.-Vietnam ties and Washington’s regional approach more generally. Tiếp tục đọc “What Does a Second Aircraft Carrier Visit Mean for US-Vietnam Relations?” →

Is Vietnam Sending Its Maritime Militia to China’s Coast?

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By Yan Yan
March 05, 2020

The Diplomat

Is Vietnam Sending Its Maritime Militia to China’s Coast?
Fishing boats take shelter in Da Nang city, Vietnam on Nov. 10, 2013.Credit: AP Photo/Hau Dinh

The South China Sea Probing Initiative (SCSPI) a project of the Peking University Institute of Ocean Research, recently released Automatic Identification System (AIS) data showing more than 300 Vietnamese fishing boats gathering in the near seas of China’s Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan provinces in February — while China is busy fighting the coronavirus. Tiếp tục đọc “Is Vietnam Sending Its Maritime Militia to China’s Coast?” →

Environmental damage to coral reefs in South China Sea

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Sciencedaily.com 

Date: February 27, 2020
Source: James Cook University
Summary: New research reveals the unseen environmental damage being done to coral reefs in the hotly contested South China Sea, as China and other nations jostle for control of the disputed sea lanes.

New research reveals the unseen environmental damage being done to coral reefs in the hotly contested South China Sea, as China and other nations jostle for control of the disputed sea lanes.

Professor Eric Wolanski and Dr Severine Chokroun from James Cook University in Australia are physical oceanographers, researching the distribution, circulation, and physical properties of water.

In a new scientific paper, they argue that the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are in even more serious trouble than first believed.

“The Spratlys are the sites of a military build-up and gross overfishing, mainly by China. Reefs and islands have been destroyed to construct military outposts to further territorial claims,” said Professor Wolanski. Tiếp tục đọc “Environmental damage to coral reefs in South China Sea” →

GONE FISHING: TRACKING CHINA’S FLOTILLA FROM BRUNEI TO INDONESIA

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PUBLISHED: JANUARY 30, 2020

For several weeks starting in late December, Indonesian media was dominated by reports of a flotilla of Chinese fishing and coast guard vessels operating without permission in the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ). The situation strained bilateral relations, presented President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo with the first foreign policy crisis of his second term, and forced Indonesia to confront the uncomfortable fact that it is a party to the South China Sea disputes even if it does not claim any contested islands or reefs. But the public reporting from Indonesian officials was also contradictory and incomplete, leaving the scale and timeline of the standoff unclear.
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When Destroyers Were Too Large For Vietnam, Navy Swift Boats Answered The Call

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The National Interest

America, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Operate in the East China Sea

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America, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Operate in the East China Sea

Photo By Petty Officer 3rd Class Vance Hand | 200113-N-ZS023-1045 EAST CHINA SEA (Jan. 13, 2020) Capt. Luke Frost, commanding… read more

USS AMERICA (LHA 6), EAST CHINA SEA

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Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Vincent Zline 
USS America (LHA 6)