China stokes encirclement fear in next-door Vietnam

A policeman blocks photographers from taking pictures during an anti-China protest in front of the Opera House in Hanoi in a file photo. Photo: Reuters/Nguyen Lan Thang

With a 3, 200-kilometer coastline, it would apparently be hard to really feel claustrophobic. But Vietnam, which has skirmished along with China for decades more than contested borderlands and disputed territory in the South China Sea, now faces the prospect of being encircled by its giant north neighbor. For millennia, Vietnam has been aggressed from the north simply by China […]

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