CHINA-VIETNAM
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Vietnam's Thanh Nien News reported on July 3, 2014 that after China despatched a mobile drilling rig in Vietnam’s continent shelf and exclusive economic zone, which escalated tensions, the US has dispatched aircraft to the region at least twice in the past several days. On June 30, Vietnamese coast guard officers spotted two US reconnaissance aircraft, EP-3 and RC-135, flying just 200 meters above the Chinese oil rig between 8:35-10:35 a.m..
It quoted the Vietnamese High Command of Marine Police as saying that the next day, on July 2, an EP-3 reconnaissance plane was seen flying about three kilometers above the drilling rig Haiyang Shiyou-981.
Vietnamese Coast Guard officers spotted another unidentified aircraft near the area the same day.
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