Le régime de Hanoi ne se laisse pas brimer par la Chine . Il a promulgué une Loi Maritime réaffirmant la souveraineté VN sur les îles .Il compte porter le conflit devant une instaance internationale
Asia Times Online :: Legal push in the South China Sea
Vietnam's new Law of the Sea and the Philippines' decision to take its dispute with China over areas of the South China Sea to an international arbitration tribunal both serve notice to Beijing that its territorial claims in the region will be hotly disputed. They also put pressure on new Association of Southeast Asian Nations chairman Brunei and freshly appointed Secretary General Le Luong Minh (from Vietnam) to find a way to ease tensions