Pictures appear to show 600-metre runway on South China Sea’s Triton Island, which is also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan
, Malaysia and Brunei have overlapping claims, while the US considers the waters crucial to its national interests and often carries out “freedom of navigation operations”.
China has not provided details of its island construction projects and maintains any work is designed to improve navigational safety. It has rejected accusations that it is militarising the waterway. Hunter Marston, a researcher and analyst at the Australian National University, in Canberra, said some officials in Hanoi appeared to perceive the developments on Triton Island with relative ambivalence and did not consider the islands to be “an existential threat to Vietnam’s security”.
Joe Biden said this month that he planned to visit Vietnam soon, adding that the country wanted to upgrade its relations with the US.
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