China insists it has right to put rig off Vietnam (Chron)

Yi Xianliang, deputy director-general of Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs, stands up, in front of a map showing a disputed zone in South China Sea, to leave a press conference in Beijing, China, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Chinese and Vietnamese ships were locked in a tense standoff Thursday in disputed waters where Beijing is trying to set up an oil rig, a Vietnamese commander said, as the United States urged both sides to de-escalate tensions in the most serious incident in the South China Sea in.

yearsneighbor to leave the area around the deep-sea rig where Chinese and Vietnamese ships are engaged in a tense standoff.