China/Vietnam/South China Sea: China Cancels Military Meeting with Vietnam over Territorial Dispute

Jun 21, 2017 | Mike Ives, New York Times
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State-run newspapers in Vietnam and China reported in recent days  that senior military officials from the two countries would hold a fence-mending gathering along a border where their militaries fought a brief but bloody war in 1979. Analysts, citing government sources, said that the Chinese delegation had unexpectedly cut short a trip to Vietnam after tempers flared during a closed-door discussion ondisputed territories in the South China Sea.