China-Vietnam Drilling Rig Incident: Reflections and Implications
Ramses Amer
After a period of stability between China and Vietnam in the South China Sea with positive developments in terms of dispute management, China’s dispatch of a drilling rig to areas west of the Paracel archipelago in early May 2014 led to deep tensions up to mid-July when China withdrew the rig. This brief provides an analysis of the incident and resulting tensions as well as the implications for the Sino-Vietnamese approach to dispute management in the South China Sea.
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