Vietnam protests Chinese force’s attack on fishermen in contested South China Sea waters

Taiwan

Hanoi Reuters  —  Vietnam on Wednesday protested to China over what it said was an attack on a Vietnamese fishing boat three days ago in contested South China Sea waters that injured several fishermen. The Vietnamese foreign ministry said in a statement that Chinese law enforcers beat the Vietnamese fishermen and took away their fishing equipment when their boat was operating near Hoang Sa, Vietnam’s name for the Paracel Islands. China calls the Paracels the Xisha Islands. The Chinese-

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