FairAndUnbiased
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Vietnam is quite clever. It's been skirmishing with China over Paracel Islands since before 1979 but has lost every single time.
Now Vietnam finds some dumb indians who dance like monkeys at the chance to confront China. The exploration area is in the Paracel Islands area and very close to Hainan. The indians really think they can bring the bulk of the indian navy to forward deploy in the South China Sea and threaten China like it's the opium war and they're the British Empire.
In fact, this just saves China the trouble of having to go to the indian ocean to hunt down and destroy the indian navy. They will bring their fleet close to PLAAF and PLAN assets, and all we need to do is open fire and the result is a lop-sided massacre worse than 1962.
In one or two years, China will smash the ambitions of india and Vietnam in the South China Sea and fully establish itself as the biggest military presence in East Asia.
Hopefully, they will not be dumb enough. Vietnam should return to its rightful place in ASEAN as a full and equal member, without territorial ambition against China.
If Vietnam was nice, we could have joint explorations. Since Vietnam wants to play hardball, we will play hardball, but Vietnam is playing with an eggshell against our solid steel.