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Chinese patrol ships arrest 6 Vietnamese fishermen

By Washington Examiner
Published July 4, 2014 11:12am ET
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Chinese patrol ships arrest 6 Vietnamese fishermen
FILE - In this May 4, 2014 file image made from video released by Vietnam Coast Guard, a Chinese coast guard vessel, right, fires water cannon at a Vietnamese vessel off the coast of Vietnam after China deployed an oil rig in disputed South China Sea waters. Vietnam plans to build 32 new coastal patrol vessels, boosting its maritime muscle and surveillance capacities amid an increasingly tense territorial dispute in the South China Sea with its far larger neighbor China. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said the government would spend US$540 million on the new coast guard and fishery patrol vessels. The decision was made Thursday, July 3, 2014, according to a government statement released later the same day. (AP Photo/Vietnam Coast Guard, File) | Uncredited

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Chinese patrol ships arrested six Vietnamese fishermen in waters off China’s Hainan Island, officials said Friday, an incident likely to heighten tensions between the nations as they spar over a territorial dispute.

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