Chinese Ships Arrive in Vietnam to Evacuate Workers
Two Chinese passenger ships were moored off a central Vietnamese port on Monday preparing to evacuate Chinese workers following deadly rioting, officials said. The nationwide unrest, the worst to hit in Vietnam years, followed Beijing’s deployment of a large oil rig in a patch of the South China Sea also claimed by Vietnam. Both nations have sent ships to the waters that are now locked in a tense standoff with each other, raising fears of possible conflict. |