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Vietnam protests Chinese military drills in South China Sea

Published 07/02/2020, 06:37 PM
Updated 07/02/2020, 06:40 PM
© Reuters.

By Phuong Nguyen
HANOI, July 2 (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry has
lodged a complaint with China over military drills in the South
China Sea that it said were "detrimental" to Beijing's
relationship with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
(ASEAN).
Vietnam and the Philippines warned of growing insecurity in
Southeast Asia at a regional summit last Friday, amid concerns
that China was using the cover of the coronavirus pandemic as a
means to step up its activity in the disputed waterway.
On Wednesday, China began five days of drills in waters near
the Paracel Islands, where Vietnam has competing claims,
according to a June 27 announcement by the Maritime Safety
Administration of Hainan, a large provincial island off China's
southern coast.
"China's drills around (the Paracels) seriously violate
Vietnam's sovereignty", foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu
Hang told a regular briefing on Thursday.
The drills "further complicate the situation, and are
detrimental to the relationship between China and ASEAN," she
added.
Hang said Vietnam had contacted China and delivered a
diplomatic note opposing the drills.
"We request that China refrain from repeating similar
actions in the South China Sea," she said.
The United States has also called on China to stop its
"bullying behaviour" in the South China Sea, and accused Beijing
of using the COVID-19 pandemic as cover to push its territorial
claims there with a surge in naval activity.
In early April, Vietnam said one of its fishing boats was
sunk by a Chinese maritime surveillance vessel. China said that
Vietnam's claims in South China sea are illegal and "doomed to
fail".

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