Sounds to me like “pouring oil on troubled waters”!
“The United States on Monday offered fresh financial assistance to Vietnam to boost maritime security on its borders, which comes as regional tension grows with China over territorial claims in the South China Sea.
On his first visit to Vietnam as secretary of state, John Kerry denied the new assistance had anything to do with China although he called for \”intensified negotiations and diplomatic initiatives\” between China and Japan on resolving differences in the East China Sea.
He repeated that the United States did not recognize a new air defense zone announced by China this month over the East China Sea.
via U.S. offers new assistance to Vietnam to patrol seas | Reuters.
CHINDIA ALERT: You'll be living in their world, very soon 
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