(VOVworld) – Japan will conduct joint drills in the East Sea, which is seeing China’s broader unilateral militarization, and cooperate with other countries to maintain peace in Asia Pacific.
(VOVworld) - The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) Presidential Council asserts its absolute support for Vietnam as well as the country’s efforts to protect the national sovereignty and sovereign right in the East Sea by peaceful means in line with the UN Charter and international law, including the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
(VOVworld) – Foreign Ministry spokesperson Le Hai Binh has reiterated Vietnam’s consistent policy of supporting peace, stability, a nuclear-free Korean Peninsula, and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons towards the disarmament of those weapons.
(VOVworld)- An exhibition displaying more than 100 maps and documents concerning Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos opened in Hai Phong on Wednesday.
(VOVworld) – Singapore will focus on the formation of the Code of Conduct (COC) in the East Sea to help claimants settle disputes.
(VOVworld) – Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan has said as the coordinator of ASEAN-China relations, Singapore will focus on the formulation of the Code of Conduct in the East Sea.
(VOVworld) – The White House urged Friday Chinese President Xi Jinping to extend his pledge not to militarize the disputed Spratly Archipelagos to encompass all of the East Sea.
(VOVworld) - The US, worried by China’s military buildup to assert dominance in the East Sea, will increase freedom-of-navigation operations there.
(VOVworld) - Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said recent activities by China in the East Sea have damaged the status quo and China’s militarization in the East Sea was worrisome.
(VOVworld) – On Wednesday, major German newspapers criticized China’s escalation of tensions in the East Sea by deploying fighter jets to Woody island in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago. The Frankfurt General newspaper said the Beijing government had injected a new element into sovereignty disputes in the East Sea with its deployment of fighter jets to Woody island. It criticized China’s sovereignty claim to 90% of the East Sea. The article said US satellite images indicate that China might have illegally built a high frequency radar station on Truong Sa archipelago.
