Chinese ‘Research Mission’ to Hoàng Sa islands “illegal”: Foreign ministry


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HÀ NỘI — All research activities in the Hoàng Sa (Paracel) islands without Việt Nam’s express permission are illegal, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lê Thị Thu Hằng, said at a press briefing on Thursday. It has been reported that China plans to deploy one of its “largest-ever” oceanographic research and training vessels, named the Sun Yat-sen University, in October of this year. The vessel, characterised as “a mobile laboratory at sea” took some 20 months to complete. It is set to sail to the Hoàng Sa islands (which is called ‘Xisha Islands’ by China) in the disputed...