China's Xi arrives in Vietnam as anger brews over visit

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hanoi on Thursday for a visit that has drawn the ire of Vietnamese nationalists at a time of bubbling conflict over disputed territory in the South China Sea. Hours before Xi's visit -- the first by a Chinese president to Vietnam in 10 years -- anti-China activists staged small but rare protests in the heart of the Vietnamese capital and southern Ho Chi Minh City. "Protesting Xi Jinping's visit", said one of the placards held aloft by about a dozen demonst