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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Vietnamese build-up a response to China

Vietnam is buying maritime patrol aircraft to strengthen its offshore capabilities to control its exclusive economic zone and to counter China’s armed forces build-up.

The two countries fought a brief but bloody border war in 1979 over Vietnam’s invasion of Cambodia, whose Khmer Rouge regime was supported by Beijing.

They have also clashed sporadically over conflicting claims to the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands, both in the South China Sea.

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