Vietnam, China in South China Sea standoff

Vietnamese and Chinese ships have been embroiled in a weeks-long standoff near an offshore oil block in disputed waters of the South China Sea, which fall within Vietnam's exclusive economic zone, two Washington-based think-tanks said on Wednesday.

One of the oil blocks it surveyed is licensed by Vietnam to Spanish energy firm Repsol, which was forced last year and in 2017 to cease operations in Vietnamese waters because of pressure from China. That block is within the area outlined by China's"nine-dash line". A series of dashes on Chinese maps, the line is not continuous, making China's claims often ambiguous.reported that Rosneft Vietnam BV, a unit of Rosneft, was concerned that its drilling in Block 06.1 would upset China.

On Tuesday, Vietnam's foreign ministry released a statement in response to unspecified"recent developments" in the South China Sea. On July 11, as China was conducting its survey of the blocks, Vietnam's prime minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc , visited the headquarters of the Vietnam coast guard in Hanoi.

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