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GRAPEVINE, Page 15Border? What Border?
By JANICE CASTRO
When the Association of Southeast Asian Nations meets this
week in Manila, VIETNAM will be pleading for support in
resisting growing Chinese aggression. Just eight months ago,
China and Vietnam normalized relations. Their border was opened.
Trade blossomed. Assistance flowed from Beijing. But last month
Chinese warships sailed into the South China Sea to renew
China's claim to the Spratly Islands, which Vietnam counts as
its own. Ignoring Vietnam's complaints, China has sold oil and
gas exploration rights in the area to a Denver firm. Meanwhile,
Chinese troops have moved border markers deeper into Vietnam,
and many Chinese visitors seem determined to stay. To Vietnam,
what looked like detente is beginning to feel more and more like
subservience.