HANOI: Protesters staged one of Vietnam’s largest ever anti-China demonstrations, decrying Beijing’s deployment of a deep-water drilling rig in contested waters as territorial tensions soar.
Some 1,000 people, from war veterans to students, waved banners saying “China don’t steal our oil” and “Silence is cowardly” – a dig at Hanoi’s handling of the dispute – and sang patriotic songs in a park opposite the Chinese embassy.
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