CHINA-VIETNAM: SOUTH CHINA SEA
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As China’s State Councilor Yang Jiechi arrived in Hanoi on June 18, 2014, to engage in talks with Vietnam's Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, and Deputy PM and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Beijing announced it was towing a second oil rig into the South China Sea. According to a statement posted on the website of China’s Maritime Safety Administration, the rig will be towed between June 18 and June 20 and is currently 104 nautical miles northeast of Da Nang (Vietnam's central hub) and 60 nautical miles from China’s Hainan Island.
China’s State Councilor Yang Jiechi's talks with the top Vietnamese leaders was to focus on China’s deployment of the giant US$1-billion oil rig into Vietnam’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic zone and continental shelf on May 2.
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