BEIJING (PTI): China and Vietnam have agreed to set up a hotline between their navies amid escalating maritime tensions over the disputed South China Sea islands.
The Defence Ministries of China and Vietnam have agreed to establish a naval hotline, Vietnam's Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh was on Friday quoted as saying by the state-run China Daily.
China currently has hotline facilities with India, the US, South Korea and Japan. The hotline between India and China is established between the Prime Ministers of the two sides.
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