Vietnamese protest against China’s deployment of an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea. Photo: AP
Vietnamese protest against China’s deployment of an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea. Photo: AP
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Vietnamese see special economic zones as assault from China

The South China Sea dispute, along with memories of the 1979 border war, run deep in the Vietnamese national psyche, making SEZs viscerally unpopular

Topic |   Vietnam
Bennett Murray
Bennett Murray

Updated: 9:52pm, 7 Jun, 2018

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Vietnamese protest against China’s deployment of an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea. Photo: AP
Vietnamese protest against China’s deployment of an oil rig in the disputed South China Sea. Photo: AP
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