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Anti-China sentiment has in recent months been more focused and far more public in Vietnam than it has been years. And, although tensions may have been eased by an agreement between the two countries last week to hold discussions twice a year to resolve differences over the South China Sea – and...

China’s mix of historical and legal claims in the South China Sea are inconsistent, says Frank Ching. Beijing can’t have its cake and eat it. US scholar Lucian Pye once famously said that China was not a country but ‘a civilization pretending to be a state.’ That may have been apt at one...