Carlosa
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Reports from Hanoi: VN halts drilling in its EEZ after China "threatened to attack VN bases in Spratly's."
Repsol executives were told by Hanoi that China had threatened to attack Vietnamese bases in the Spratly Islands if the drilling did not stop.
VN blinked.
The balance of power is very clear and VN knows it. As I said many times here, those islands are indefensible, China can take them any time it wants and there is nothing that VN can do to stop them. VN can retaliate but that would bring chinese retaliation to the Vietnamese mainland. That's the reality on the ground.
China had already threatened PH with war if they explored for oil. Now PH will be next to back down.
The chinese are not playing water wars any more, now they issue hard core threats.
There is only one power that can stop this behavior.
Its time for VN to rethink the concept of no alliances.
Its time for some people in Hanoi to stop thinking about Beijing as their "comrades".
Indonesia better take note of this. The Malaka Strait will be their next objective after they consolidate their control of SCS. Not now, but later........
Repsol executives were told by Hanoi that China had threatened to attack Vietnamese bases in the Spratly Islands if the drilling did not stop.
VN blinked.
The balance of power is very clear and VN knows it. As I said many times here, those islands are indefensible, China can take them any time it wants and there is nothing that VN can do to stop them. VN can retaliate but that would bring chinese retaliation to the Vietnamese mainland. That's the reality on the ground.
China had already threatened PH with war if they explored for oil. Now PH will be next to back down.
The chinese are not playing water wars any more, now they issue hard core threats.
There is only one power that can stop this behavior.
Its time for VN to rethink the concept of no alliances.
Its time for some people in Hanoi to stop thinking about Beijing as their "comrades".
Indonesia better take note of this. The Malaka Strait will be their next objective after they consolidate their control of SCS. Not now, but later........
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