The chief of the general staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army blamed Hanoi for escalating tensions in the South China Sea, Reuters reported, citing a Thursday statement by General Fang Fenghui in Washington. Standing at the Pentagon alongside the top US military officer, General Martin Dempsey, Fang defended the deployment of an oil rig that has triggered deadly protests in Vietnam, saying it was in China’s territorial waters, and vowed to protect the activity. “I think it’s quite clear … who is conducting normal activity and who is disrupting it,” he said through an interpreter.
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