Tensions Between Vietnam and China

There are now protests in Vietnam against the Chinese embassy:

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(Reuters) - Hundreds rallied on Sunday in Vietnam's biggest cities to denounce China's setting up of a giant oil rig in the South China Sea, a rare protest likely to prolong a tense standoff between the two communist neighbors. At least 300 people massed in front of China's embassy in Hanoi and a few hundred more at its consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, witnesses said, chanting "Down with China" in protests that expose the underlying cracks in relations between the two political and economic allies. China's parking of the rig in contested waters a week ago was one of its most provocative moves in years and followed U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to allies such as Japan and the Philippines, which are among the countries locked in disputes at sea with an increasingly assertive Beijing. Sunday's demonstrations were small but highly significant.

This is interesting for me as someone I know has been working to buy up unused metal-hulled fishing boats in Japanese harbours to send them to Vietnam through an NGO, because apparently a lot of Vietnamese fishing boats are rammed by Chinese vessels and are destroyed because they are made of flimsy materials.



I recently spoke to a friend of mine who lives in Vietnam who says this issue has been growing for some time, and has been a big current affair in Vietnam. If it comes to a pushing and shoving match with China, Vietnam might turn to Russia for help.

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