China/Vietnam/South China Sea: Vietnam Digs in on South China Sea Oil and Gas Projects amid Chinese Pressure

Sep 14, 2019 | Tan Hui Yee, Eleven
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Vietnam, locked in one of its most protracted test of wills with China of late, is trying to allay fears that yet another foreign joint venture energy project in the South China Sea may be canned due to pressure from Beijing. The question over American firm ExxonMobil's involvement in the Ca Voi Xanh, or Blue Whale, gas field project off central Vietnam arose as a Chinese survey ship remained in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone this week, the third such encroachment over the past two months.