India will not reconsider its oil and gas cooperation with Vietnam, said Geeta Kochhar, faculty member of the Center for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University. Kochhar made the judgment in the context of China’s illegal oil and gas activities in the East Sea, internationally known as the South China Sea, including the deployment of Chinese oil survey vessel Haiyang Dizhi 8 and its escorts to Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf. “If China really wants to be assertive of not letting India cooperate with Vietnam, I do not think India would accept that and they should not accept that,” Kochhar said Tuesday on the sidelines of a conference on India’s relations with neighboring countries held Tuesday in Hanoi by the Vietnam Institute of Indian and Southwest Asian Studies (VIISAS). Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined on “not accepting any kind of domination or control by any powers in the region,” she said. She added that the competition in oil and gas cooperation should not be converted into any kind of confrontation, and it is not fair if China has some objections to India’s cooperation with Vietnam because China itself also cooperates with Vietnam… Read full this story
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