China Quietly Annexes Northeast Corner of Gulf of Tonkin Earlier this month, China quietly turned a swathe of the Gulf of Tonkin into an extension of Chinese internal waters, simply by declaring a new basel...

"While the new baseline does not cross the Vietnamese-Chinese maritime demarcation line (..) it would also allow China to exercise full administrative control over all navigation in the northeastern end of the gulf and the Hainan Strait" #Beibu #Tonkin maritime-executive.com/article/chin...

China faces new sea dispute with another neighbor With tensions already flaring over Philippines-claimed waters, China has unilaterally expanded its territorial boundaries near Vietnam.

"Vietnam has called on China to abide by maritime law after Beijing declared earlier this month that it was expanding its territorial claims with a new #baseline in the South China Sea's Gulf of Tonkin." #Beibu www.newsweek.com/china-faces-...