By Vu Trong Khanh, Wall Street Journal
HANOI—Hundreds of people gathered at the Chinese Embassy here Sunday to protest the attempted deployment of an oil rig by a Chinese state-run energy company in waters off Vietnam.
Anti-China protesters shouted slogans during a rally in downtown Ho Chi Minh city on Sunday in one of Vietnam’s largest ever anti-China demonstrations. Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
Some carried Vietnamese flags and shouted: “Down with China.”
Public protests are rare in Hanoi and are often quickly quelled by authorities. But police didn’t step in to stop Sunday’s rally, which lasted about three hours.
Public protests against the Chinese oil rig also took place in other large cities of Vietnam Sunday morning, state media reported.
Thousands of people in Ho Chi Minh City, the country’s economic hub, marched to the Consulate General of China Sunday morning with banners and shouted anti-China slogans.
Also, more than 3,000 people in Danang City, a coastal tourism city in central Vietnam, gathered at a city park, demanding that China withdraw the oil rig and chanting that the sea in that area “belongs to Vietnam.”
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