HANOI: Anti-China riots at a steel plant in Vietnam left one Chinese worker dead and 100 injured, officials said on Thursday, as unrest triggered by an escalating territorial dispute spreads across the communist country.

Beijing’s deployment of a deep-water drilling rig in contested waters has sparked the worst anti-China backlash in Vietnam in decades, with protests in major cities and angry mobs torching foreign-owned factories.

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