US, Vietnam warn against 'threat or use of force' in South China Sea

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HANOI: The United States and Vietnam warned on Monday against the 'threat or use of force' in the disputed South China Sea, days after the latest clash involving Chinese vessels.

President Joe Biden and Vietnam's Communist Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong said the competing claims on the strategic waterway must be settled under international norms.Beijing claims almost the entire sea, through which trillions of dollars in trade passes annually, and has ignored an international court ruling that its assertion has no legal basis.

Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and US President Joe Biden hold a meeting at the Government Office in Hanoi on September 11, 2023. AFP PHOTOVietnam, which fought a war with China between 1979 and 1988, is wary of its giant northern neighbor, and is one of a handful of countries with claims on the many islets and outcrops that dot the South China Sea.

 

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