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Why is the South China Sea such a hotspot?

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Why are there so many tensions over this body of water? What is the ‘nine-dash line’? And why does it matter to Australia?

By James Massola, The Sidney Morning Herald

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Australia’s declaration that there is no legal basis for China’s claims to most of the South China Sea has been a long time coming.

For years, Canberra has carefully urged restraint, called on all states to respect the rules-based international order, insisted that it took no sides in the many competing territorial claims for the sea and urged respect for a 2016 international court ruling on the status of disputed features of the South China Sea.

But the decision to say there is no legal basis for China’s claim to 90 per cent of the islands and waters – which fall within the so-called “nine-dash line” – is part of a gradual change in Australia’s approach to the dispute, and one that is likely to be quietly welcomed by neighbouring countries in south-east Asia.

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Recent submissions to the Secretary-General of United Nations on South China Sea

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– Malaysia submission, Dec. 12, 2019.

– China submission, Dec. 12, 2019, responding to Malaysia.

– Philippines submission, March 6, 2020, responding to Malaysia.

– Philippines submission, March 6, 2020, responding to China.

– China submission, March 23, 2020, responding to Philippines.

– Vietnam submission, March 30, 2020, responding to China.

-Vietnam submission, April 10, 2020, about Paracels.

– Vietnam submission, April 10, 2020, about Paracels and Spratlys.

– China submission, April 17, 2020, responding to Vietnam.

– Indonesia submission, May 26, 2020, confirming UNCLOS Arbitration Tribunal’s decision on Philippines v. China in 2016.

– US submission, June 1, 2020, rejecting China’s claims in South China Sea and citing UNCLOS Arbitration Tribunal’s decision in Philippines v. China in 2016.

– China submission, June 2, 2020, responding to the US.

– China submission, June 9, 2020, responding to the US.

– Indonesia submission, June 12, 2020, rejecting all China claims.

– China submission, June 18, 2020, responding to Indonesia.

– Australia submission, July 23, 2020, rejecting all China claims and affirming UNCLOS Arbitration Tribunal’s decision in Philippines v. China in 2016.

– Malaysia submission, July 29, 2020, rejecting all China claims.

– China submission, July 29, 2020, responding to Australia.

Source: UN Division for Ocean Affairs and and the Law of the Sea https://www.un.org/Depts/los/clcs_new/submissions_files/submission_mys_12_12_2019.html

Quan chức Australia, Trung Quốc ‘đấu khẩu’ về Biển Đông

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Cao ủy Australia O’Farre đăng Twitter đáp trả sau khi Đại sứ Trung Quốc tại Ấn Độ chỉ trích bình luận của ông về Biển Đông.

Cao ủy Australia tại Ấn Độ Barry O’Farre hôm 30/7 nói rằng Australia quan ngại sâu sắc về những hành động “gây bất ổn và có thể kích động leo thang” của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông. Đại sứ Trung Quốc tại Ấn Độ Tôn Vệ Đông sau đó đăng Twitter phản đối nhận xét của ông O’Farre, chỉ trích ông “coi thường sự thật”.

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Úc gửi công hàm lên LHQ, bác hết mọi yêu sách của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông – Malaysia gửi công hàm lên Liên Hiệp Quốc bác bỏ ‘đường 9 đoạn’ của Trung Quốc – Bị bác yêu sách trên Biển Đông, Bắc Kinh gởi công hàm tố lại Úc –

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Úc gửi công hàm lên LHQ, bác hết mọi yêu sách của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông

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TTO – Công hàm của Úc đã phản đối mạnh mẽ các yêu sách phi lý Bắc Kinh đặt ra trên Biển Đông, từ yêu sách với Tứ Sa đến đường cơ sở thẳng tại Hoàng Sa hay đảo nhân tạo. Một loạt điều luật quốc tế đã được Úc viện dẫn để bác bỏ các yêu sách đó.

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Đảo Phú Lâm thuộc quần đảo Hoàng Sa của Việt Nam bị Trung Quốc dùng vũ lực xâm chiếm và xây dựng, cải tạo trái phép – Ảnh: AFP

Trong công hàm đề ngày 23-7 gửi lên Liên Hiệp Quốc (LHQ), Úc nhấn mạnh động thái này là để thể hiện rõ quan điểm của Úc đối với 6 công hàm và công thư Trung Quốc đã gửi lên LHQ từ tháng 12-2019.

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Australia Abandons Its Neutrality on the South China Sea Maritime Disputes

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Australia has aligned itself with the United States in supporting UNCLOS and the 2016 Arbitral Tribunal ruling.

Carl Thayer

By Carl Thayer July 27, 2020 The Diplomat   

Australia Abandons Its Neutrality on the South China Sea Maritime Disputes
Credit: Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicholas Huynh

Australia, a state party to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), has long maintained that it was neutral with respect to maritime disputes in the South China Sea. Australia’s submission of a Note Verbale to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLSC) on July 23 changed previous policy and came in the wake of a major change in U.S. policy made by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 10 days earlier.

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Việt Nam asks for better sea dispute management, enhanced trade cooperation with China

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Update: July, 22/2020 – 07:23| VNSVietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh (right) and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi co-chaired the 12th meeting of the Steering Committee for Việt Nam-China Bilateral Cooperation on Tuesday. — VNA/VNS Photo Bùi Lâm Khánh

HÀ NỘI — Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh has expressed concerns over the recent complicated developments over the South China Sea (known in Việt Nam as the East Sea) with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Tuesday.

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As Vietnam takes more assertive approach to South China Sea, Beijing tries to manage tensions

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  • Chinese diplomat meets with Vietnamese counterpart to discuss the waterway, while Beijing-backed investment institution loans US$100 million to bank in Vietnam
  • Moves come just days after US secretary of state rejects most of China’s claims to South China Sea
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Holly Chik Published: 6:30pm, 19 Jul, 2020 SCMPA crewman from a Vietnamese coastguard ship looks out at Chinese military vessels in the South China Sea in 2014. The countries’ disputes over the waterway go back decades. Photo: Reuters
A crewman from a Vietnamese coastguard ship looks out at Chinese military vessels in the South China Sea in 2014. The countries’ disputes over the waterway go back decades. Photo: Reuters

Beijing is carefully managing its relationship with Vietnam after the United States took a harder line on the South China Sea dispute and rejected most of its claims in the strategic waterway as “unlawful” this week.

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South China Sea: Chinese state firms could face US sanctions

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  • US assistant secretary of state hints at punitive action against state firms accused of ‘bullying’ regional neighbours
  • Beijing has clashed repeatedly with rival claimants to the resources of the disputed waterway
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The US has accused Beijing of bullying its regional neighbours in the South China Sea. Photo: AP

The US has accused Beijing of bullying its regional neighbours in the South China Sea. Photo: AP

Several Chinese state-owned companies  could be hit with US sanctions for their roles in expanding the nation’s presence in the disputed waters of the

South China Sea. David Stilwell, the US assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, this week accused China of using its state-owned firms to bully its regional neighbours to secure oil and mineral reserves. He also hinted that the US might respond with sanctions against the officials and enterprises involved.

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US Air Force surveillance plane spotted off south coast of China, think tank says – US spy drone seen over South China Sea headed for Taiwan, Chinese think tank says

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US Air Force surveillance plane spotted off south coast of China, think tank says

  • E-8C aircraft seen reconnoitring near Guangdong province for third time this week, South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative says
  • US Navy says two aircraft carrier strike groups led by USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan carried out tactical air defence exercises in region to maintain combat readiness
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The US Navy said two of its aircraft carrier strike groups carried out dual exercises in the South China Sea to boost their combat readiness. Photo: US Navy
The US Navy said two of its aircraft carrier strike groups carried out dual exercises in the South China Sea to boost their combat readiness. Photo: US Navy
A US military surveillance aircraft was spotted close to China’s south coast for the third time this week on Friday, Chinese sources said, as the US Navy reported two of its aircraft carrier strike groups had conducted dual exercises in the South China Sea to boost their combat readiness.

The US Air Force E-8C aircraft, which is fitted with specialist radar, communications, operations and control systems, was seen reconnoitring as close to 72 nautical miles off the coast of Guangdong province, according to the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, a think tank based at Peking University.

The sighting was the third this week, it said. Analysts said the plane was probably monitoring Chinese troop deployments and movement along the coast.

The think tank said also that a US Air Force E-3 Sentry early warning and control aircraft, which provides all-weather surveillance, command, control and communications, was spotted over the South China Sea.

Also on Friday, the US Navy said two of its aircraft carrier strike groups had conducted dual exercises in the South China Sea to boost their combat readiness.

The groups, led by the USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan, were showing their “operational commitment to allies and partners in the region, providing combatant commanders with significant operational flexibility if needed in response to regional situations”, according to a report published on Friday on cpf.navy.mil, a news portal for the US Navy.

Rear Admiral Jim Kirk, commander of the Nimitz strike group, was quoted as saying the warships had been “operating in the South China Sea, wherever international law allows, to reinforce our commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific, a rules based international order, and to our allies and partners in the region”.

The two groups conducted tactical air defence exercises to maintain combat readiness, the report said, adding that they trained “to the highest levels of readiness to ensure responsiveness to any contingency through power projection”.

“Security and stability is essential to peace and prosperity for all nations, and it is for that reason the US Navy has been present and ready in the Pacific for over 75 years,” Kirk said.

The US Navy said on July 4 that the two aircraft carrier strike groups had been deployed to the South China Sea “in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific”, while Chinese forces were staging a drill near the Paracel Islands, which are claimed by mainland China, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Boatswain’s mate Seaman Clarkensy Smith looks on from the USS Antietam as the USS Nimitz, USS Ronald Reagan and USS Mustin steam in formation. Photo: US Navy
Boatswain’s mate Seaman Clarkensy Smith looks on from the USS Antietam as the USS Nimitz, USS Ronald Reagan and USS Mustin steam in formation. Photo: US Navy

On July 10, the defence ministry in

Beijing lambasted the deployment

, claiming the US had “carried out navigational hegemony” through its repeated deployments of warships to the region and describing Washington as the biggest driver of militarisation in the strategic waterway.

Kirk’s comments on the latest naval activity came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the US formally opposed Beijing’s territorial claims within the so-called nine-dash line that encompasses almost all of the South China Sea – in line with a 2016 ruling by an international tribunal at The Hague.

His remarks may

embolden Southeast Asian nations to assert their maritime claims

to the disputed waters but observers say most are unlikely to openly choose sides between the US and China.

Collin Koh, a research fellow at the S Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, said the carrier strike groups’ operations showed the US Navy was intent on maintaining its freedom of navigation in the South China Sea regardless of the rising challenge from the Chinese military.

“The US Navy remains operationally ready and has been able to bring the Covid-19 contagion under control,” he said.

“The intended audience of such signalling isn’t just China, but also other regional governments to underline continued US security commitments.”

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US spy drone seen over South China Sea headed for Taiwan, Chinese think tank says

  • United States could be seeking to track Chinese navy’s underwater activities in the region, observer says
  • It comes as Washington steps up military presence after formally rejecting most of Beijing’s claims to the waterway
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A US Navy MQ-4C Triton drone was seen flying towards the southeast of Taiwan on Wednesday. Photo: Handout
A US Navy MQ-4C Triton drone was seen flying towards the southeast of Taiwan on Wednesday. Photo: Handout

The United States has sent a high-altitude spy drone over

the South China Sea

, a Chinese think tank said on Thursday, days after Washington declared most of Beijing’s claims in the hotly contested waterway were “unlawful”.

The US Navy MQ-4C Triton – a long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle – was seen flying towards the southeast of Taiwan at about noon on Wednesday, according to the SCS Probing Initiative (SCSPI), a Peking University think tank.

It said a US P-8A anti-submarine aircraft and a KC-135R aerial refuelling aircraft were also seen on Thursday flying southwest of Taiwan over the South China Sea.

While details of the air patrols were unclear, military observers said the US Navy appeared to be stepping up reconnaissance efforts in the strategic waterway that is

seen as a potential flashpoint between Beijing and Washington

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The Triton drone seen on Wednesday is part of the US Navy’s Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force. Operated autonomously using maritime sensors, it can work with the manned anti-submarine aircraft to carry out intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions over vast ocean and coastal regions.

Washington’s hardened position on Beijing’s claims in South China Sea heightens US-China tensions

Song Zhongping, a Hong Kong-based military expert, said the US Navy could be seeking to track underwater activities by the Chinese navy.

“The deployment of surveillance aircraft such as the MQ-4C, P-8A and P-3C [Orion maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft] could help the US Navy to reconnoitre warship, submarine and other underwater activities in the region as they are able to detect sound pulses and track submarines,” Song said.

The air patrols came as the US has stepped up its military presence in the South China Sea after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday said

Washington formally rejected most of Beijing’s expansive maritime claims in the region

. The move has raised concerns about a possible military confrontation between the two superpowers that are already at odds over issues ranging from trade to human rights and Hong Kong.

A day after Pompeo’s statement, guided-missile destroyer the USS Ralph Johnson carried out a freedom of navigation operation in the South China Sea, sailing near the disputed Spratly Islands, the US Pacific Fleet said in a statement. Known as the Nansha Islands in Chinese, they are also claimed by the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam.

According to the SCSPI, the US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of Beijing-controlled Cuarteron Reef for the first time since 2016, and Fiery Cross Reef for the sixth time this year.

A US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of Cuarteron Reef on Tuesday, according to the SCSPI. Photo: Weibo
A US warship sailed within 12 nautical miles of Cuarteron Reef on Tuesday, according to the SCSPI. Photo: Weibo

The US has increased its so-called freedom of navigation and overflight operations in the South China Sea as part of efforts to challenge China’s military build-up and land reclamation projects in the disputed waters. Beijing has rejected these patrols and accused the US and its allies of raising tensions in the region.

The under-the-radar South China Sea projects Beijing uses to cement its claims
15 Jul 2020

According to the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, China has significantly expanded Cuarteron Reef since 2013, building helicopter pads, radar facilities and possible gun or missile emplacements.

China has also carried out land reclamation work at Fiery Cross Reef since 2014, turning it into one of its biggest artificial islands with an airbase, 3,000-metre runway and shelters that could house mobile missile launchers, according to AMTI.

Malaysia Submission to UN Commission on the Limits of Continental Shelf Dec. 12, 2019 and related communications by other countries

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Malaysia [submission] – in the SOuth China Sea 12 December 2019

On 12 December 2019, Malaysia submitted to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, in accordance with Article 76, paragraph 8, of the Convention, information on the limits of its continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured in the South China Sea.

It is noted that the Convention entered into force for Malaysia on 13 November 1996.

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ASEAN hoan nghênh ủy ban quốc hội Mỹ ra tuyên bố Biển Đông

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ASEAN hoan nghênh ủy ban quốc hội Mỹ ra tuyên bố Biển Đông

Đại diện các nước ASEAN cảm ơn sự ủng hộ của Mỹ trong nỗ lực duy trì luật pháp quốc tế, sau khi ủy ban quốc hội Mỹ bác bỏ yêu sách của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông.

Đại sứ Hà Kim Ngọc cùng Đại sứ, Đại biện các nước ASEAN tại Washington D.C. chiều 16/7 trao đổi trực tuyến với Hạ nghị sĩ Joaquin Castro, Phó Chủ tịch Ủy ban Đối ngoại Hạ viện, đồng Chủ tịch Nhóm ASEAN của Quốc hội Mỹ về củng cố quan hệ Đối tác Chiến lược ASEAN – Mỹ, theo thông cáo của đại sứ quán Việt Nam tại Washington D.C.

ASEAN hoan nghênh ủy ban quốc hội Mỹ ra tuyên bố Biển Đông

Nhóm tác chiến tàu sân bay USS Ronald Reagan và USS Nimitz diễn tập trên Biển Đông ngày 6/7. Ảnh: US Navy.

Đại sứ, Đại biện các nước ASEAN cảm ơn sự ủng hộ của Mỹ trong nỗ lực duy trì luật pháp quốc tế, trong đó có Công ước Luật biển Liên Hợp Quốc 1982, tại Biển Đông và các vùng biển trong khu vực. Đại sứ Hà Kim Ngọc đánh giá cao Ủy ban Đối ngoại Thượng viện và Hạ viện ra tuyên bố khẳng định các yêu sách lãnh thổ và hàng hải của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông là bất hợp pháp.

Hạ nghị sĩ Joaquin Castro khẳng định sự đồng thuận lưỡng đảng đối với cách tiếp cận đề cao luật pháp quốc tế, giải quyết hòa bình các tranh chấp tại Biển Đông, nhấn mạnh giá trị pháp lý của phán quyết Tòa Trọng tài Thường trực trong vụ kiện giữa Philippines với Trung Quốc. Ông khẳng định Mỹ luôn sát cánh cùng các nước trong khu vực, không cho phép bất kỳ nước nào sử dụng sức mạnh để mở rộng lãnh thổ dù ở Biển Đông, biên Hoa Đông hay trên đất liền.

Ông Castro cũng cảm ơn và đánh giá cao các bài học và kinh nghiệm kiểm soát Covid-19 của các nước ASEAN, đặc biệt là Việt Nam, cũng như hợp tác ASEAN – Mỹ ứng phó với dịch bệnh thời gian qua. Ông Castro cho rằng ưu tiên trước mắt là đẩy mạnh phối hợp trong ứng phó với diễn biến phức tạp của Covid-19.

Đại sứ Hà Kim Ngọc nhấn mạnh với vai trò Chủ tịch ASEAN, Việt Nam đã phối hợp với các thành viên ASEAN duy trì chương trình hoạt động của ASEAN và hy vọng Covid-19 sớm được kiểm soát để Việt Nam có thể đón các lãnh đạo ASEAN và đối tác, trong đó có Tổng thống Mỹ, đến Hà Nội tham dự Thượng định Đông Á vào cuối năm nay.

Bộ Ngoại giao Mỹ hôm 13/7 đăng tuyên bố của Ngoại trưởng Mike Pompeo, bác bỏ hầu hết yêu sách chủ quyền của Trung Quốc ở Biển Đông. Cùng ngày, các lãnh đạo Ủy ban Đối ngoại của Thượng viện và Hạ viện ra tuyên bố chung khẳng định họ ủng hộ việc chính quyền làm rõ lập trường rằng yêu sách của Trung Quốc tại Biển Đông là bất hợp pháp. Trung Quốc đã không tuân thủ phán quyết của Tòa Trọng tài Thường trực năm 2016.

Tuyên bố chỉ trích Trung Quốc “bắt nạt nước láng giềng, quyết liệt cải tạo và quân sự hóa các thực thể, tiếp tục hoạt động trong vùng đặc quyền kinh tế của quốc gia khác” và nhấn mạnh những hành động này leo thang trong vài tháng qua khi thế giới đang tập trung chống Covid-19.

Mỹ cam kết duy trì luật pháp quốc tế, tiếp tục tự do hàng không, hàng hải ở những nơi luật pháp quốc tế cho phép, đồng thời ủng hộ các đối tác và tổ chức trong khu vực tìm kiếm giải pháp ngoại giao hòa bình cho tranh chấp ở Biển Đông.

Phương Vũ

Chairmen and ranking members of US Senate and House of Representatives on the East Sea (South China Sea)

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JULY 13, 2020

RISCH, MENENDEZ, ENGEL, MCCAUL: CHINA’S CLAIMS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA ARE UNLAWFUL

BOISE, Idaho – U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Representatives Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today released the following statement on the administration’s decision to clarify the United States’ position on the South China Sea, making it clear that China’s territorial claims are unlawful:

“We fully support the administration’s decision to clarify the United States’ position that China’s territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea are unlawful. China has failed to abide by the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s legally binding ruling from 2016, or provide any credible legal justification for its claims. Instead, it has resorted to coercion of its neighbors, an aggressive campaign of reclamation and militarization of features, and continued activities in the exclusive economic zones of other countries. This has only accelerated over the last several months as the world focused on COVID-19. Continued ambiguity with respect to our policy on China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea no longer serves the shared interests of the Indo-Pacific region, given China’s aggressive actions and refusal to abide by international law.

“The United States is committed to upholding international law; to flying, sailing, and operating where international law allows; and to supporting our regional partners and regional institutions who seek peaceful diplomatic resolution of disputes in the South China Sea. We hope this decision will lead to further efforts by the United States, our partners, and all members of the international community to better align support for international law with respect to the South China Sea.”

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US aircraft carriers return to South China Sea amid rising tensions

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The United States runs regular operations in the South China Sea. (AFP/Catherine LAI)

HANOI: For the second time in two weeks, the United States has deployed two aircraft carriers to the South China Sea, the US Navy said on Friday (Jul 17), as China and the United States accuse each other of stoking tensions in the region. Tiếp tục đọc “US aircraft carriers return to South China Sea amid rising tensions” →

Vietnam dismisses China claims of East Sea activity over 2,000 years ago

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By Viet Anh   July 16, 2020 | 06:20 pm GMT+7

Vietnam dismisses China claims of East Sea activity over 2,000 years ago

Satellite photo shows North Island, part of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, known in Vietnam as the East Sea, September 2017. Photo by Planet Labs/via Reuters.

Vietnam Thursday dismissed Chinese claims of East Sea activities dating back 2,000 years plus and called for all countries to respect international law. Tiếp tục đọc “Vietnam dismisses China claims of East Sea activity over 2,000 years ago” →

Tuyên bố của Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Mỹ Mike Pompeo ngày 13/7/2020 về Biển Đông – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement.

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us rejects nearly all chinese claims to territory in south china sea

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Hoa Kỳ đấu tranh cho một Ấn Độ – Thái Bình Dương mở rộng và tự do. Ngày nay chúng tôi củng cố chính sách của nước Mỹ trong một phần quan trọng và có nhiều tranh chấp ở vùng đó – Biển Đông. Chúng tôi nói rõ: Những luận điệu của Bắc Kinh về những tài nguyên ngoài biển trải dài hầu hết Biển Đông là hoàn toàn phi pháp, cũng như chiến dịch bắt nạt để kiểm soát những tài nguyên đó.

Tại Biển Đông, chúng tôi tìm cách bảo tồn hòa bình và ổn định, duy trì tự do trong cung cách phù hợp với luật pháp quốc tế, bảo vệ luồng chảy thương mại thông suốt, và chống lại mọi nổ lực dùng áp bức và vũ lực để giải quyết các tranh chấp. Chúng tôi chia sẻ những quan tâm vĩnh cửu và sâu sắc này với nhiều đồng minh và đối tác đã từ lâu tán thành một trật tự quốc tế trọng pháp. Tiếp tục đọc “Tuyên bố của Bộ trưởng Ngoại giao Mỹ Mike Pompeo ngày 13/7/2020 về Biển Đông – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s statement.” →