Xi seeks consensus with Vietnam
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CHINESE President Xi Jinping told the visiting head of Vietnam’s ruling Communist Party yesterday that the two countries must manage their dispute over the South China Sea well to maintain peace and stability.
Meeting in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, Xi told Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam’s Communist Party, that cooperation was good for the two countries, China News Service reported.
“(We) must strictly abide by the important consensus the leaders of both parties have reached, jointly properly manage and control maritime disputes, maintain the broader picture of relations and peace and stability in the South China Sea,” the report quoted Xi as saying.
Trong told Xi that Vietnam put great store on friendly relations with China.
Xi greeted Trong with full military honors at the Great Hall of the People, after which the two presided over talks and the signing of cooperation agreements, including a five-year plan for the cooperation between the two ruling parties.
Trong is being joined on the four-day trip by Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh, Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh and Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang.
Anti-Chinese violence flared in Vietnam last May after a US$1-billion deepwater rig owned by China’s state-run CNOOC oil company started to operate in waters about 27 kilometers from China’s Xisha Islands and 241 kilometers from Vietnam.
Thousands of Vietnamese rioters attacked Chinese-owned enterprises and workers, leaving at least four nationals dead. From May 3-7, Vietnam dispatched 36 vessels, which rammed Chinese boats, leading to fears of a violent confrontation.
In a commentary ahead of the visit, Xinhua news agency said the two countries had “managed to ride out a considerably disturbing episode” in their dispute over the South China Sea.
But it added: “Some outsiders, for selfish reasons, are exploiting every possible excuse to sow discord between them, while a few in Vietnam’s political circle have been deluded by external Pied Pipers and become accomplices.”
Vietnam has strengthened its military relationship with its old enemy the United States since the South China Sea dispute, and Vietnam has also sought common ground with the Philippines on facing China over the spat.
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