Vietnam is following in the footsteps of rival Spratly Islands claimant China in building out military-purposed ...

China has repeatedly moved oil rigs into disputed areas, dredged and occupied parts of the disputed Paracel ... percent of the South China Sea as its exclusive economic zone. Vietnam has responded ...

The clash is a milestone for Hanoi’s South China Sea claims – but marking its 50th anniversary requires discussing the government of South Vietnam.

The risk of conflict in the South ... a U.S.-China naval confrontation. Disputes between China and Vietnam over seismic surveys or drilling for oil and gas could also trigger an armed clash ...

The involvement of an extra-regional great power in a small power’s territorial disputes with China may prove ...

Pledges on ‘guiding the settlement of sea-related issues’ follow high-profile visit to China by Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Of them all, Vietnam has been by far the most proactive in asserting its own sovereignty claims in the South China Sea. These ...

The South China Sea is bound by China, Taiwan, and several southeast Asian nations. China claims jurisdiction over most of it, but countries like Vietnam ... one of the Paracel Islands which ...

China claims almost the entire South China Sea, a conduit for more than $3 trillion of annual ship-borne commerce, including parts claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei.

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries ...