A Vietnamese ship monitored a Chinese Coast Guard vessel on Saturday in a Russian-operated gas field in Vietnam's South China Sea exclusive economic zone (EEZ), data show - the latest Chinese patrol in a pattern stretching more than a year.
"China is asserting jurisdictional rights to seabed energy resources and used its coast guard to put pressure on regional states," said Ian Storey, a senior fellow at Singapore's ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.
Russia's state-controlled Zarubezhneft is the operator and a shareholder of one the two blocks, 06-01; Russia's gas giant Gazprom From those blocks, roughly 630 nautical miles from China's Hainan island, the Chinese ships typically return on a direct route to Vanguard Bank, where they are stationed, data reviewed by Reuters show. The Chinese ship on Saturday instead sailed to Malaysia's EEZ.
Zarubezhneft, Gazprom, and Russia's foreign ministry and embassy in Hanoi did not respond to requests for comment.
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