Vietnam Government Publishes Map of Its Gulf of Tonkin Baseline HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a ...

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.

BANGKOK — Chinese authorities said they have begun live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin on Monday ... coordinates of its claim other than a map with 10 dashed lines broadly demarcating ...

Micah McCartney is a reporter for Newsweek based in Taipei, Taiwan. He covers U.S.-China relations, East Asian and Southeast Asian security issues, and cross-strait ties between China and Taiwan.

First the dotted line on Chinese maps lost two of its hyphens in 1952, when, in a moment of socialist bonhomie with Vietnam, Chairman Mao Zedong abandoned Chinese claims to the Gulf of Tonkin.

Fifty years ago Sunday, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution that authorized him, in the wake of reported North Vietnamese assaults on an American destroyer ...

Vietnam has approved an agreement with China to jointly explore for oil and gas offshore in the Gulf of Tonkin. The deal was signed during Chinese President Hu Jintao's visit to Hanoi last November.

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin, where it shares a maritime border with China, which it said on Friday was to help ...

China and Vietnam have long had a maritime agreement governing the Gulf of Tonkin, but have been locked in competing claims ...