CHINA MOVING IN TO CONTROL THE SOUTH CHINA SEA FOR ITS OIL RICH RESERVES YET TO BE EXPLORED–AS VIETNAM, PHILIPPINES, TAIWAN CAN ONLY COMPLAIN–WHILST THE POTUS BHO CAN DO NOTHING LIKE HIS FAILED DOMESTIC POLICIES–IF WE WOULD FOLLOW THE KOREANS WHERE IS THE APOLOGY FOR ALL THE TERRIBLE MISTAKES THE POTUS HAS MADE IN THE LAST 6 YEARS IN OFFICE–NONE OF COURSE SINCE A DEMOCRAT CAN NEVER ADMIT FAULT BUT BLAMES

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China's decision to park its biggest mobile oil rig 120 miles off the Vietnamese coast has exposed how vulnerable Hanoi, and other littoral states of the South China Sea, are to moves by the region's dominant power to assert its territorial claims.

The Communist neighbors are at loggerheads over the drilling rig in contested waters, each accusing the other of ramming its ships in the area in the worst setback for Sino-Vietnamese ties in years.

While Hanoi's dispute with Beijing over the Spratly Islands, for example, involves fellow claimants the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, it is only Vietnam that contests China's expanding occupation of the Paracels.

For years now Hanoi has tried to open talks with Beijing over China's moves on the islands, insisting that they are Vietnamese territory.

While the countries have put aside historic suspicions in recent years to demarcate their land border and the Gulf of Tonkin, negotiations stop dead at the Paracels further south.

Whenever the Vietnamese raise the issue, the Chinese say there is nothing to discuss because the Paracels are under Chinese occupation and sovereignty and not in dispute, according to diplomats close to regular Sino-Vietnamese negotiations.

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