Vietnam, Philippines Protest Chinese Assault in South China Sea

Published on October 4, 2024

The Vietnamese government on Oct. 2 reported that Chinese law enforcement officers had beaten and taken fishing equipment from Vietnamese fishermen on a boat operating near the Paracel Islands three days prior on Sept. 29. Vietnam lodged a protest with the Chinese communist regime, and on Oct. 4 the Philippine government issued a statement condemning the Chinese enforcers’ “unjustified assault” on Vietnamese fishermen. The Paracel Islands are a small archipelago, near equidistant off the coasts of Vietnam and Hainan, China. Both countries claim the territory as their own, as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) claims all of the South China Sea as its territory, a claim the international Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague has rejected as legally meritless....

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