China imposes the ban on fishing in a vast area of the South China Sea each year since 1999 and Vietnam routinely opposes it.
HANOI, Vietnam – Vietnam took aim at China on Thursday, April 20, for imposing an annual ban on fishing in a vast area of the South China Sea, calling it a violation of its sovereignty and urging Beijing not to complicate matters.
It covers waters 12 degrees north of the equator and includes parts of Vietnam’s 200-mile exclusive economic zone as well as the Paracel islands, which the two countries have both occupied and have contested for decades. China claims more than 90% of the potentially energy-rich South China Sea via a U-shaped “nine-dash line” on its maps, which stretches deep into Southeast Asia and cuts into the EEZs of the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Indonesia.
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