November 19, 2011
US President Barack Obama (R) listens as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao speaks during their meeting on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and East Asia summits in Nusa Dua, on Indonesia’s resort island of Bali, on November 19. US President Barack Obama held previously unannounced talks with China’s Premier Wen Jiabao [...]
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November 11, 2011
resident Obama looks on as Chinese President Hu Jintao speaks during their joint news conference on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011, in the East Room of the White House in Washington. I had dinner this week in Beijing with an elegant 85-year-old woman named He Liliang, who had one of the great front-row seats to history. [...]
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November 1, 2011
Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (L) and Philippine President Benigno Aquino agreed to boost maritime cooperation in the East Sea. Vietnam and the Philippines have agreed to boost maritime cooperation for the purposes of maintaining peace, security and free navigation of the East Sea. During his three-day state visit to the Philippines beginning Wednesday (October [...]
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September 24, 2011
A recent diplomatic row with China highlights India’s moves to beef up its influence in the East Sea via more cooperation with Vietnam, observers say Indian Navy personnel march on Indian Independence Day at the Red Fort monument in New Delhi. India’s recent actions demonstrate that countries are looking for ways to balance the [...]
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September 15, 2011
Vietnam's Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (R) and Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo at a meeting in Hanoi Wednesday China and Vietnam have agreed to speed up negotiations towards ending a long-running spat over the East Sea, media in both countries reported on Thursday, as Beijing continued a campaign to defuse tension. Both countries, [...]
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July 30, 2011
Vietnam's Vice Minister of Defense and Navy Commander in Chief Vice Admiral Nguyen Van Hien (L) speaks with media along the sides of the 5th ASEAN Navy Chiefs meeting in Hanoi on July 27 Southeast Asian naval chiefs pledged closer cooperation on Wednesday as they held their first formal talks amid regional concern over China’s [...]
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July 23, 2011
As China and ASEAN inch closer to a goodwill declaration on the East Sea, experts doubt that it will ease tensions Vietnamese fishermen in the East Sea. Experts have called a recent agreement to implement a regional declaration of goodwill a step toward resolving growing tensions in the East Sea. Experts have called a [...]
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July 13, 2011
Petrovietnam Insurance Co, the insurance arm of Vietnam’s state oil and gas group Petrovietnam, said on Wednesday it was in talks to sell a stake to a strategic investor, but did not name the investor. Oman Investment Fund owns 12.6 percent in the Hanoi-based firm, which holds a monopoly on Vietnam’s energy insurance market. [...]
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July 2, 2011
International experts urge action to back rhetoric as China and Vietnam pledge to solve East Sea disputes peacefully Sixty-two-year old Nguyen Van Ai of the central Binh Dinh Province prepares for an offshore fishing trip. Ai owns four large fishing boats and together with six sons, two sons-in-law and 75 other fishermen, head out [...]
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June 22, 2011
Vietnam and the United States have jointly called for freedom of navigation and rejected the use of force in the East Sea, amid simmering tensions between Beijing and its neighbors. After talks in Washington, the two countries said that "the maintenance of peace, stability, safety and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea [...]
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