The U.S. is weighing in on Vietnam's side amid a standoff in the South China Sea, where Washington says Beijing is blocking access to '$2.5 trillion in unexploited hydrocarbon resources.'
The United States has accused China of preventing Southeast Asian countries from accessing trillions of dollars worth of untapped oil and gas reserves in the South China Sea as the Pentagon planned to hold its first exercise with regional powers near the strategic region.
The most recent incident occurred last week near Vanguard Bank, a Vietnam-administered outpost in the contested Spratly Islands, and Ortagus attributed the move to China"pressuring Vietnam over its work with a Russian energy firm and other international partners." Chinese survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 8 conducts research on behalf of the Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey in this photo shared July 25, 2018. The ship once again entered what Vietnam claimed to be its exclusive economic zone near Vanguard Bank of South China Sea's disputed Spratly Islands on August 13 of this year.
to dock in Vietnam in March. In May, the U.S. disinvited China from the Rim of the Pacific exercise involving Vietnam and several other ASEAN states over Beijing's increased militarization of the Spratly Islands.alongside the regional collective months later in October. That same month, then-Defense Secretary James Mattis confirmed that a U.S.
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