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2020-04-08 | BY SCSPI
As the new fishing season approached and the weather turned to be better, the activities of Vietnamese fishing vessels skyrocketed all over the South China Sea in March.
2020-03-28 | BY SCSPI
In 2019, the US armed forces continued to carry out intensive military activities in the South China Sea, with their strategic platforms coming in and out of the region frequently, sea and air reconnaissance forces conducting various operations vigorously, the freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) near China’s stationed islands and reefs in the South China Sea increasing rapidly, and military diplomacy intensifying unprecedentedly. Though the US has become slightly more prudent in its words and deeds with regard to the military conflicts with China in the South China Sea, its operations in this region, in terms of both scale and intensity, have been significantly reinforced, compared to those in 2018. With the continual military exercises and various drills of the US armed forces and the rushing deployment of forces and platforms in the South China Sea, the region has become a front line of the maritime strategic competition between China and the US.
2020-03-23 | BY SCSPI
Recently, the SCSPI has released several reports on Vietnamese fishing vessels, indicating that hundreds of them are intruding into the waters around Hainan Island, about which some experts especially Vietnamese colleagues have different opinions. We hereby make such following formal responses.
2020-03-11 | BY Jiang Yanchuan
On March 5, AMTI claims that the almost constant presence of China’s militia fishing vessels around Thitu Island is stoking up the “Thitu Island Crisis” again, whose assertion turns out to be a far cry from the real statistics.
2020-03-04 | BY SCSPI
In February 2020, a total of 311 Vietnamese vessels intruded into internal waters, territorial seas, and exclusive economic zones (EEZs) of Guangxi, Hainan, and Guangdong provinces and conducted IUU fishing and close-range reconnaissance.