China warns India against exploration in South China Sea

Even as India and Vietnam signed a pact for oil exploration in the South China Sea, China is getting edgy.

China, today, warned India about the pact. A state-run Chinese daily termed India’s pact with Vietnam as a “reckless attempt to confront China”.

The move comes just days after Vietnam’s president visited India. During his visit, ONGC had signed a three-year deal with PetroVietnam for long term co-operation in the oil sector.

“Just one day after signing an agreement on ground rules to resolve maritime disputes in Beijing, Hanoi reached an agreement with New Delhi for joint exploration. It is hard to tell if this shows a double-dealing mentality from Hanoi,” _Global Time_s said in a stinging editorial on the just-concluded Indo-Vietnamese pact on oil and gas exploration in the South China Sea.

“Both countries clearly know what this means for China,” the newspaper commented on the agreement signed during Vietnamese President  Truong Tan Sang’s visit to New Delhi.

The pact between the Indian and Vietnamese state-owned oil companies include new investments and the exploration and supply of oil and gas to the two countries.

With agency inputs

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