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Vietnam risks Beijing’s ire as it uses US freedom of navigation exercise to stake its claim in South

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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...ks-beijings-ire-it-uses-us-freedom-navigation

Hanoi typically performs a balancing act in its relations with Beijing and Washington, but opportunity presented by row over USS McCampbell was too good to miss

As China and the United States continue to wrestle over trade disputes and geopolitics, Vietnam is performing a balancing act in the stormy South China Sea as it seeks to maintain its strong ties with Washington while not upsetting Beijing, experts said.

Earlier this week, Hanoi used the latest row over a US freedom of navigation operation in the disputed waterway to not only show its support for its Western ally but also reaffirm its territorial claims there.
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Vietnam has conflicting territorial claims to some of the South China Sea are being militarized by the Chinese. In particular, '“Vietnam has sufficient legal grounds and historical evidence testifying to its sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa [Paracel] and Truong Sa [Spratly] archipelagoes in conformity with international law,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on Wednesday.'

It's somewhat jarring having sweated out the 1960s Vietnam draft to read an article that states that Vietnam now considers the U.S. to be its 'Western ally'.
 
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...ks-beijings-ire-it-uses-us-freedom-navigation

Hanoi typically performs a balancing act in its relations with Beijing and Washington, but opportunity presented by row over USS McCampbell was too good to miss

As China and the United States continue to wrestle over trade disputes and geopolitics, Vietnam is performing a balancing act in the stormy South China Sea as it seeks to maintain its strong ties with Washington while not upsetting Beijing, experts said.

Earlier this week, Hanoi used the latest row over a US freedom of navigation operation in the disputed waterway to not only show its support for its Western ally but also reaffirm its territorial claims there.
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Vietnam has conflicting territorial claims to some of the South China Sea are being militarized by the Chinese. In particular, '“Vietnam has sufficient legal grounds and historical evidence testifying to its sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa [Paracel] and Truong Sa [Spratly] archipelagoes in conformity with international law,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on Wednesday.'

It's somewhat jarring having sweated out the 1960s Vietnam draft to read an article that states that Vietnam now considers the U.S. to be its 'Western ally'.

Vietnam understands that once China controls the seas around it its goose will then be cooked.
 
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...ks-beijings-ire-it-uses-us-freedom-navigation

Hanoi typically performs a balancing act in its relations with Beijing and Washington, but opportunity presented by row over USS McCampbell was too good to miss

As China and the United States continue to wrestle over trade disputes and geopolitics, Vietnam is performing a balancing act in the stormy South China Sea as it seeks to maintain its strong ties with Washington while not upsetting Beijing, experts said.

Earlier this week, Hanoi used the latest row over a US freedom of navigation operation in the disputed waterway to not only show its support for its Western ally but also reaffirm its territorial claims there.
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Vietnam has conflicting territorial claims to some of the South China Sea are being militarized by the Chinese. In particular, '“Vietnam has sufficient legal grounds and historical evidence testifying to its sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa [Paracel] and Truong Sa [Spratly] archipelagoes in conformity with international law,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on Wednesday.'

It's somewhat jarring having sweated out the 1960s Vietnam draft to read an article that states that Vietnam now considers the U.S. to be its 'Western ally'.

CNN will clear this up for us. Clearly this is all Trump's fault.
 
CNN will clear this up for us. Clearly this is all Trump's fault.

In this case I think it's China's fault for asserting their territorial claims in the South China Sea by militarizing shoals & reefs as artificial island bases & claiming to restrict free navigation by air & sea in an area claimed by several other countries. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Sea
 
Good for Vietnam.

It refuses to kowtow to China. (The Vietnamese, I assume, have a long memory of Chinese domination hundreds of years ago.)

China does not want a war with Vietnam. The last time the Chinese messed with Vietnam (after the American withdrawal), the Vietnamese chased the Chinese out of their country. The Vietnamese had stood up to the United States, so it is not afraid of a paper tiger like China.

Other Asian nations should stand up to China, too.

China is getting too big for its britches.
 
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/dip...ks-beijings-ire-it-uses-us-freedom-navigation

Hanoi typically performs a balancing act in its relations with Beijing and Washington, but opportunity presented by row over USS McCampbell was too good to miss

As China and the United States continue to wrestle over trade disputes and geopolitics, Vietnam is performing a balancing act in the stormy South China Sea as it seeks to maintain its strong ties with Washington while not upsetting Beijing, experts said.

Earlier this week, Hanoi used the latest row over a US freedom of navigation operation in the disputed waterway to not only show its support for its Western ally but also reaffirm its territorial claims there.
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Vietnam has conflicting territorial claims to some of the South China Sea are being militarized by the Chinese. In particular, '“Vietnam has sufficient legal grounds and historical evidence testifying to its sovereignty over the Hoàng Sa [Paracel] and Truong Sa [Spratly] archipelagoes in conformity with international law,” foreign ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on Wednesday.'

It's somewhat jarring having sweated out the 1960s Vietnam draft to read an article that states that Vietnam now considers the U.S. to be its 'Western ally'.

As a Vietnam Vet, I don't find it strange at all. Militarily, the U.S. and Vietnam are moving closer and closer. Vietnam has been an observer to our yearly military exercises in Thailand named Cobra Gold for 5 or more years. That's an military exercise of the nations of Southeast Asia to include United States, Thailand, Singapore, South Korea, Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia. Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia were observers the last few years, they will become participants over the next couple to three years.
 
Good for Vietnam.

It refuses to kowtow to China. (The Vietnamese, I assume, have a long memory of Chinese domination hundreds of years ago.)

China does not want a war with Vietnam. The last time the Chinese messed with Vietnam (after the American withdrawal), the Vietnamese chased the Chinese out of their country. The Vietnamese had stood up to the United States, so it is not afraid of a paper tiger like China.

Other Asian nations should stand up to China, too.

China is getting too big for its britches.

The one war we lost, or at least admitted to. Other losses are pending in the Middle East. Thanks Bush/Cheney.
 
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