A report by the East German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, discussing the shifting anti-Socialist and anti-Soviet attitudes amongst Chinese leadership. The majority of focus is given to China's military and foreign policy, specifically their efforts to strengthen military capabilities and their claims to territories held by neighboring states.

Choe Deok-sin reports that the South Vietnamese government has dispatched ships to the Spratly Islands, and comments on the status of the Overseas Chinese in Vietnam, exchanges between Vietnam and Japan and the Philippines, and Vietnam's economic policies.

Vuong Van Bac requests that the United Nations Security Council take up the disputes over the Spratly and Paracel Islands.

The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs disputes the Republic of Vietnam's dispatching of naval vessels to the Paracel and Spratly Islands.

Vuong Van Bac offers another briefl on China's maneuvers in the South China Sea.

Vuong Van Bac briefs the Secretary General on China's maneuvers in the South China Sea.

Vuong Van Bac of the Republic of Vietnam rejects China's claims over the Spratly and Paracel Islands.

Vietnam submits its territorial claims to the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs complains that the Vietnamese military has continued to intrude into Chinese territory and to attack Chinese fishing vessels at sea.

Ha Van Lau transmits "Viet Nam's Sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Archipelagoes" to the United Nations.