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2020-04-30 | BY Chen Xiangmiao
Vietnam’s strategy of playing the victim deliberately amplifies China’s power advantage, making China a “bully” at sea so that it can gain sympathy and support from the international community when it conducts unilateral activities in Spratly Islands such as island/reef fortification and oil/gas exploitation.
2020-04-23 | BY Rommel Banlaoi
The world’s lockdown against COVID-19 is not locking down state activities in the South China Sea. All the claimants and stakeholders remain vigilant of the situation。
2020-04-08 | BY SCSPI
As the new fishing season approached and the weather turned to be better, the activities of Vietnamese fishing vessels skyrocketed all over the South China Sea in March.
2020-03-28 | BY SCSPI
In 2019, the US armed forces continued to carry out intensive military activities in the South China Sea, with their strategic platforms coming in and out of the region frequently, sea and air reconnaissance forces conducting various operations vigorously, the freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) near China’s stationed islands and reefs in the South China Sea increasing rapidly, and military diplomacy intensifying unprecedentedly. Though the US has become slightly more prudent in its words and deeds with regard to the military conflicts with China in the South China Sea, its operations in this region, in terms of both scale and intensity, have been significantly reinforced, compared to those in 2018. With the continual military exercises and various drills of the US armed forces and the rushing deployment of forces and platforms in the South China Sea, the region has become a front line of the maritime strategic competition between China and the US.
2020-03-23 | BY SCSPI
Recently, the SCSPI has released several reports on Vietnamese fishing vessels, indicating that hundreds of them are intruding into the waters around Hainan Island, about which some experts especially Vietnamese colleagues have different opinions. We hereby make such following formal responses.