CHINA-VIETNAM: SOUTH CHINA SEA
Vietnam's Thanh Nien newspaper reported that on June 7, 2015, Chinese vessels damaged a Vietnamese fishing boat with water cannons and three days later a Vietnamese fishing boat was attacked and robbed of equipment and its catch. Vietnamese authorities disclosed that they took “necessary measures” to pressure Chinese vessel 517 to leave Vietnam’s waters on June 8. Meanwhile, Saigon Tourist Corp., a government-owned company, is planning a tourist boat trip to the contested Spratly Islands starting June 22 to “arouse national pride and citizen consciousness of the sacred sovereignty of the country,” according to a posting on the Ho Chi Minh City government’s website. |