Yang Jiechi, Pham Binh Minh

Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi (left) shakes hands with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Pham Binh Binh before the two headed for talks behind closed-door on the tension in the South China Sea in Hanoi, Vietnam on Wednesday June 18, 2014. Yang’s visit is the highest-level direct dialogue bewteen the two countries since tension flared following Chinese placement of an oil rig off Vietnam’s coast in learly May. (AP Photo/Tran Van Minh.)