It's better if China's growth not affect to others.
good or bad, it simply isnt possible for a new great/super power to rise without affect others in some way.
Despite of not so good long history, recently the relationship between China and Vietnam are friendship for most of the time, during WW2, during Indochina conflict, and officially right now.
We appreciate the friendship growth of China.
i would say the relations right now are...stable
About equipments and training, could you point out when the last real combat China army, air force join ? in Korean war for army ???
last actual war would be vietnam in 79', there have been other incidents in several areas since then but no real war or major combat. but as far as training and equiptment goes, its pretty easy to see the improvement in equiptment, training is still too focus on centralized decision making but this has been changing. and the focus now is clearly on rapid mobilization and transport, hence the effort on transports and full machanization following in the US foot step, this really kicked in after witnessing the cakewalk that the iraqi war was for the US. that said the PLA is still sorely lacking in the number of helicopters and large (stragtegic) transports.
For Vietnam army and air force, they face to face to the biggest until now air force and have many winning before the enemy equipped even much better than China with most advance ACCs in comparing to even Russia. FYI, US navy used at least 2 ACC at the same time against very limited ability Vietnam navy and air force.
the VPAF is no match(at all) for the airforce or china, russia and especially the US. the reason the USN had troubles in vietnam was due to the severe restraints placed on it mostly due to the involvment of the soviet union. the US could have bombed all your airbases and that would be the end of the VPAF, however even just 2 soviet "advisors" present on base meant the US could only combat aircraft once they've taken off from the base and could not bomb the air base itself due to the fear of killing senior soviet personal and sparking a larger, possibly nuclear war, secondly the soviets provided large numbers of up to date(of the era) aircraft and anti-aircraft equitpment which was a match against US machines. this, along with the fact that they could not solve the problem at its roots meant problems of establishing air domination, but even then, the majority of losses was caused by ground based AA guns/missile rather than enemy fighters(also because the soviets would tell the VPAF when the US was coming and from what routes base on their intelligence gathered from the ships near the US carriers, thus allowing the VPAF to set up AAA all over the routes ).
Vietnamese pilots have rich experience in real combat with US pilots well-equipped and they turn to ACE by shot down from 5-9 US aircrafts each pilot.
FYI, North Korean pilots cannot compete the performance of Vietnamese pilots, even Russian pilots can't.
leaving NK aside, during the vietnam war, north vietnam did indeed have over 15 aces, however to say north vietnamese performance would have been better than the soviets themselves is laughable, check out soviet fighter performance during the korean war. these are guys(like the US airmen) with thousands of hours of flying in ww2
At the war time, Vietnam has support from China for anti-aircraft operated by Chinese personnel, but to be frank, it's low performance and many losses for equipment and personnel, can't last for long in a war like Vietnam war.
what are you talking about? china sent, for the most part engineers, who fixed roads and bridges and thus freeing vietnamese personall so that can go fight on the front lines. they did send some anti-air and they performance was respectable(see following link). where are you pulling the "low performance and many losses" statement from?
http://www3.nccu.edu.tw/~lorenzo/Jian China Involvement Vietnam.pdf
At this time, Vietnam has very friendship relation with India as I know.
Better if China could know that friendship with most of neighbors is better than to be the enemy of everyone.
it takes two to make a relation, that is all
I reminded that in every war, Vietnam consider the success of their defence is winning.
so the target is difference from China's target. China consider the more occupation is the win.
So you all know that should not attack Vietnam and occupy our land and sea, we make no damage to anyone unless we are under attacked.
vietnam is not capable of attacking china or the US or Russia, doing so is sucide. but vietnam on the defensive is different, it has a terrain very advantagous to the defender and its people very tough and independent. that said, china does not want to occupy vietnam, in any fighting resulting from the island disputes would see combat on the seas and tension but not actual war on land. and on the seas vietnam has ZERO defender advantage, in fact it has zero advantages of any kind vis-a-vis PLAN, Vietnamese Navy will lose, simple as that.
I read that Liaoning has sacrifice of long range air-defense for bringing more aircrafts.
Is it right? Why ? Is it true that Liaoning would never use in real combat so they use it as demonstration and practice site? and never thinking about the chance of its survival under attacks?
PLAN wants to use Liaoning as a real carrier rather than a heavy crusier/carrier mix, being a real carrier, its anti-air and anti-ship capabilities lies in its fighter bombers(j-15, future j-31) and its escort fleet(a fleet consisting of 054A, 052C/D, 095 ssn would make it the most powerful CBG otuside of the USN). and Liaoning is indeed a practice/test carrier, to set up procedures and protocols for future "real" carriers, this does not mean its not operational(once fully comissioned with j-15), it just means it'll spend much more time training new sailors rather than conduction patrols or anything of that sort.
Vietnam has small quantity of aircraft so they would not put their aircrafts at risk in a carrier like Liaoning ... how about a Boom and 54 aircraft sunk together with Liaoning ..
again, in any possible war in the medium term, Liaoning will not be used, especially in the near regions where the PLAAF can already provide air cover. and i dont think you realize just how protected a real carrier is, if the carrier is there they are pretty confident no enemy can get a shot at it.
1 of 21 Acc US used in Vietnam war has 72 to 90 aircrafts with heavily air defense system, the thing that the America never forget after Pearl Harbor incident
the USN carriers have more planes, but the actual carrier itself is just as defenceless as Liaoning is, like i said that job is given to the planes and escorts, and those are some very powerful planes and very powerful escorts
