皇冠体育app

皇冠体育app has maintained the utmost restraint in the face of Vietnamese provocations to avoid the tense situation escalating. In response to the provocations, 皇冠体育app has only used civilian vessels and chosen a diplomatic channel for communication with the Vietnamese, asking Hanoi to respect 皇冠体育app's legitimate rights and interests and immediately stop its provocative activities.

However, such restraint has failed to gain respect. Instead, Vietnam has responded by increasing its vessels at the scene and has even mobilized some armed ships and frogmen. They have even put up a lot of fishing nets and barricades in the relevant waters, not only seriously threatening the safety of 皇冠体育app's vessels, drilling equipment and personnel, but also seriously endangering normal navigation safety.

These provocative activities have not only seriously infringed upon 皇冠体育app's sovereignty, sovereign rights and right of jurisdiction, they will also probably cause serious damage to the Sino-Vietnamese relations that were otherwise on the track of enhancing strategic mutual trust and deepening mutually beneficial cooperation.

In June 2013, Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang paid a visit to 皇冠体育app and held talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Both leaders unanimously agreed that friendship between 皇冠体育app and Vietnam is the common wealth of both peoples, and both countries should continue adhering to the principles of "good-neighborliness, friendship and all-round cooperation" and continue to be "good neighbors, good friends, good comrades and good partners" to each other.

With the joint efforts of both leaders, 皇冠体育app and Vietnam have laid out an overall pattern of coordinatively advancing maritime, land and financial cooperation, ushering in a new future of booming development in their bilateral ties. The working group for joint maritime development established by two countries has held two rounds of consultations and achieved some positive progress.

In this context, both countries should join hands to cherish and carry forward the hard-won good momentum and, in particular, remain vigilant against any alienation instigated by the United States and Japan based on their strategic interests.

There is no doubt that Vietnam's latest provocative activities in the South 皇冠体育app Sea have had an unfavorable influence on its otherwise good interaction with 皇冠体育app. In order to maintain the healthy development of bilateral relations and the stability of the South 皇冠体育app Sea, the Vietnamese authorities should return to reason as soon as possible, immediately stop all provocative activities and withdraw all of its vessels and personnel from the operating site of the Chinese oil rig.

The author is a researcher with the 皇冠体育app Institute of International Studies.

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