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| Tango01 | 21 Jun 2014 10:09 p.m. PST |
…Into Disputed Waters. "China has sent four more oil rigs into a disputed area of the South China Sea less than two months after it placed a giant drilling platform in waters claimed by Vietnam, ratcheting up regional tensions. The largely unpopulated Paracel islands are administered by China but claimed by Vietnam, and they have become the flashpoint in an increasingly aggressive territorial row between the two neighbours, ideological allies as fellow communists but with stark divisions. A Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman said the rigs were in waters close to Guangdong province and Hainan island. "There is no need to over interpret the recent deployment of four oil rigs in the South China Sea," Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing…"
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