The Great Game for the Spratlys
Vietnam has been remarkably successful in getting the South China Sea issue back onto the international agenda, in the process underscoring its new ties with the United States and asserting Hanoi's leadership of Asean on this issue.
China is furious but its reaction, seemingly driven by President Hu and the People's Liberation Army rather than the foreig…
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