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Heavy naval skirmish can turn quickly into full fledged war to the neighboring countries that share land border with CN, In this case Vietnam. PLA can roll in quickly blitzkrieg style and inflict heavy casualties there for few months before pull back after securing naval victory in most of SCS islands.
If Philippines want to hold back longer while preparing the worst case scenario, PH, My, Vn must have unified voice by fixing all the maritime border issue between themselves in SCS before taking further step to face CN claim as unified voice.
Yup, Vietnam case is different, but I believe that those countries (China and Vietnam) will hold the conflict mainly on SCS, thus avoiding damage on each other economy and civilian casualties during the SCS war. By holding the conflict mainly in SCS, China and Vietnam can also secure more moral support from their people, thus eliminating any chance to get any political punch to those countries leaderships because of conducting the war.
Another reasons that China will not do any attack on Vietnam's land is because Vietnamese is good at protecting their land during recent war, maybe there is still some trauma hanging on their military leadership mind. Beside that, China is also afraid to face any economic sanction if they escalate the war into China-Vietnam border.
In my opinion, if there is any economic sanction imposed into China because of SCS war, it will be possibly initiated by European first, USA (and maybe Japan) will use European countries to do it for them since USA and Japan also depend on China economy greatly, both countries in my opinion fear any retaliation from China economically if they initiated it first.
Yes, correct, fixing the dispute between them first is really a good idea for them.
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