- US Secretary John Kerry called China’s deployment of an oil rig in the disputed Sea waters as a provocative measure.
- China held that the oil rig off Paracel Islands is well within its own limits and admonished US for its erroneous remarks.
- China also said that the provocation were made by Vietnam and called for the halting of the ramming of China’s vessels by the Vietnamese fleet.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-international/china-us-trade-barbs/article6006846.ece
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