BEIJING: China late on Sunday issued a lengthy defense of its use of an oil rig in contested waters that is at the center of a bitter dispute with Vietnam.
A statement on the foreign ministry website, relayed in full by the official news agency Xinhua, said the drilling operations near the Paracel Islands fell within China’s “sovereignty and jurisdiction.”
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