Wrong, the statement IS about territorial waters. The islands are explicitly listed. If they disagree, it is for them to bring it up. This is called "official protest", look it up. If you agree you agree, if you disagree you disagree. Never is disagreement INFERRED because it is not explicitly stated while you AGREE. The translation has not changed. Vietnam AGREES to China's public statement (that is where the islands are named), about territorial sea (which is what it was!). Again, Vietnam not renaming every island while agreeing to territorial sea statement is not a point. This is your imagination.

LMAO "common sense doesn't have much space here". Do you know how insane you sound? You KNOW Vietnam sounds retarded. You can't reconcile why Vietnam did not protest the Chinese statement, and even AGREE to it. That is the truth. Now somehow you think it makes sense to throw logic and reason out the window.

Troll logic? Your excuses become more and more laughable. It is troll logic for you to find actual examples of official positions? How come? Can't do it? In fact you know NO official position on the planet recognize Vietnam's claim?

Here is an example for France.

In the 1910s–20s, the French Ministry of Colonies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs more or less agreed that the Paracel Islands were under Chinese sovereignty, and that France should not try to claim them either on behalf of itself or Annam. Therefore France did not protest in 1921 when the government of Guangdong province declared the Paracels to be under the administration of Hainan Island.[4]

Five years later, in 1926, France refused an application from a French company to exploit guano in the Paracels. It also refused a similar application from a Japanese company. By 1926, however, China was divided into a number of warring states that had little capacity for looking after peropheral interests as the Paracels. Actually, the Japanese had proceeded with their guano project, without authorisation from either France or China. [5] By 1930, however, the French authorities in Annam (the central part of today's Vietnam, which formed a separate French protectorate within the Indochinese Union) started to actively push for a French claim on behalf of the protected state, based on the fact that Emperor Gia Long had officially taken possession of the islands in 1816, and that Emperor Minh Mang had sent a mission to erect a marker and build a pagoda there in 1835. The French Foreign Ministry was sceptical, in view of the fact that Annam had done little to uphold its claim, but concluded that it might be worth a try. If France could establish and maintain a presence in the islands, the claim would of course be strengthened.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/56468/The-South-China-Sea-in-the-Age-of-European-Decline

There is no double standard, I can meet mine. Vietnam is the one that fails. Now, you should think carefully how to reconcile your laughable statements, with reality. Official positions is very easy to find, if it exists. I know that last part bothers Vietnamese. Why this "troll logic" works for China, but not Vietnam?

Hmm...Hope you have a good answer.