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Giant China Crane Ship Turns Up Near Vietnamese Coast
South China Morning Post

05 September 2019

The Lan Jing, a Chinese giant crane vessel, has been tracked to 90km from the Vietnamese coastline – in an area claimed by Hanoi as its exclusive economic zone – fuelling the risk of further maritime confrontation between the two countries. Collin Koh, a research fellow at the RSIS, said the arrival of the Lan Jing not only had a “political signalling utility”, but also an operational one.

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