Vietnam deployed security forces and quelled renewed protests against China on Sunday amid escalating tensions between the two nations after a territorial dispute sparked anti-Chinese rioting across the southeast Asian country. The Chinese government chartered planes and vessels as it evacuated more than 3,000 of its nationals in Vietnam, China’s Xinhua news agency reported Sunday, following riots in recent days that and more than 100 injured. Among those evacuated were 16 critically injured Chinese as well as staff from the China 19th Metallurgical Corp. who were building an iron and steel complex in Vietnam’s Ha Tinh Province, Xinhua said. Mobs looted and burned their way last week through several of the industrial parks where Chinese and other foreign manufacturers have set up over the past dozen years to take advantage of Vietnam’s low-cost, skilled workforce. The rioting was initially a response to China’s deployment of an oil rig in […]