The two-day international conference entitled " The East Sea: security and development in the region to strengthen cooperation" opened Thursday in Ho Chi Minh City. The seminar jointly organized by Vietnam’s Foreign Affairs University and Vietnam Bar Association has attracted the participant of 50 scholars from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Laos, China, South Korea, Japan, India, Australia, the United States, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Canada and other countries. Strategic issues related to the East Sea like security, dispute and solution to solve dispute; and marine cooperation in region, and between the region with others have been under discussion at the seminar. Representatives of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), known as the world’s leading authority on political-military conflict, Defense Studies Department of King’s College London, China Foreign Affairs University, Asian Studies Center, Woodrow … [Read more...] about International seminar on East Sea opens in HCMC
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The East Sea and US-VN-China relations after Xi Jinping’s US visit
VietNamNet would like to present an article by Dr. Tran Cong Truc, former Head of the Government Boundary Committee on US - Vietnam - China relations and the East Sea (internationally known as the South China Sea), after Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the US. The East Sea is the center of relations between Vietnam and the two superpowers – the US and China. The East Sea is heating up not only due to Beijing’s escalation and expansion in pursuing and imposing its absurd and illegal U-shaped line with many dangerous tricks, but also because of the absence of actual progress after the meeting between Xi and US President Obama. Before the Sino - US summit, the region entrusted a lot of hope in the White House on the commitment to enforce international law and order, peace and stability, marine and aviation security and safety in the East Sea. Obama had also made statements condemning China’s behaviors of escalation and disruption of the status quo to … [Read more...] about The East Sea and US-VN-China relations after Xi Jinping’s US visit
China’s illegal placement of Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig in the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Vietnam
PANO - The Socialist Republic of Vietnam rejects as completely unfounded, in fact and in law, China's assertions in the annexes to the letters dated May 22nd 2014 and June 9th 2014 from the Chargé d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General of the United Nations as contained in documents A/68/887 and A/68/907, respectively. Vietnam reiterates the following: 1. China's activities, in violation of international law, escalate tension in the East Sea (South China Sea) … [Read more...] about China’s illegal placement of Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig in the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Vietnam
Russian experts discusses behaviors in the East Sea
VietNamNet Bridge - To provide a multidimensional view of the current situation of the East Sea, we would like to introduce the interview with Mr. Yakov Berger, an expert of Chinese studies at the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Science. Mr. Yakov Berger, an expert of Chinese studies at the Far East Institute of the Russian Academy of Science. VietNamNet: Could you please tell us your assessment of China's actions on the East Sea recently? Mr. Yakov Berger: China's increasing maritime activities, its conflict with Japan in the north and with some Southeast Asian countries in the south, in addition to the economic benefits, scrambling for natural resources, there is an underlying cause that Chinese scholars recently mentioned: "China is a lack of living space." This idea appeared when China, after more than 30 years of successful reform, has become a really powerful country. It wants to have a larger space for freedom of action. Besides, there is transition of leadership … [Read more...] about Russian experts discusses behaviors in the East Sea
ASEAN chairman wants to promote Code of Conduct in the East Sea
VietNamNet Bridge - Territorial disputes and flare-ups in the South China Sea (East Sea) were expected to take center stage at Asia's largest security forum this week. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. In his opening speech at the 44th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM44) on July 19 in Bali, Indonesia, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said: “The next 5 days will be full of hard work in our common efforts to shape the destiny of our region.”“Our meeting here takes place just 10 weeks after the 18th ASEAN summit in Jakarta last May. We did not waste time.” “Since that Jakarta Summit, there have been plenty of discussions and consultations among ASEAN Ministers and officials, and also with our dialogue partners, to prepare for this meeting in Bali. Before that, in the first three months after Indonesia assumed ASEAN chairmanship, ASEAN Foreign Ministers met four times. This is a clear testament of the fact that ASEAN, as intended by … [Read more...] about ASEAN chairman wants to promote Code of Conduct in the East Sea