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That is very interesting.

Russia is in no position to subsidise the military buildup in Vietnam.

But still trying to block deals.
Nobody would be surprised. Russia just follows its own strategic interests. Ah I would wonder how much bribe the Chinese are ready to pay to stop iskander sale to Vietnam?

http://tass.com/defense/962806

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They don't need to pay a bribe, they have enough influence as it is.
Lay your trust on VN. We are a weaker party, however similar to the case of Donald Trump, I expect VN will put an attractive offer on the table, comrade Vladimir Putin can't resist.
 
Lay your trust on VN. We are a weaker party, however similar to the case of Donald Trump, I expect VN will put an attractive offer on the table, comrade Vladimir Putin can't resist.
I don't put my belief on Trump, from these things he did, surely he only cares his interests like his business, he lacks the point of view from a politician. See the wrestling between him and Kim. Like a joking. It is the reason why the Pinoy government changes the policy toward the enemy. Because Dueter understand their ability and the cost to confront Chinese and accept the truth they lost their territories. Philippines people maybe get peace at that time but I suppose they never have a chance to become a powerful nation based on this behaviour but It is the Pinoy problem and doesn't relate to ours. Has news said Chinese drill in Tonkin Gulf.
 
I don't put my belief on Trump, from these things he did, surely he only cares his interests like his business, he lacks the point of view from a politician. See the wrestling between him and Kim. Like a joking. It is the reason why the Pinoy government changes the policy toward the enemy. Because Dueter understand their ability and the cost to confront Chinese and accept the truth they lost their territories. Philippines people maybe get peace at that time but I suppose they never have a chance to become a powerful nation based on this behaviour but It is the Pinoy problem and doesn't relate to ours. Has news said Chinese drill in Tonkin Gulf.
Sis xiao I say lay your trust on VN, not on Donald Trump :tup:
 
Vietnam/Japan defence consultation

Sr Lt. General Nguyen Chi Vinh on a visit to the headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defense and the reciprocal visit of Japanese defence minister Manabe Ro to Vietnam. the government of Shinzo Abe increases military budget to a record height, once again adding $1.6 billion more to missile defense systems. maybe something we can learn one or two from the Japanese strategy how they deal with missile threat.

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9M14 guided armor piercing anti tank missile, range 3,000m. an effective means to stop battalions of enemy tanks.

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International Business Times UK
Politics

China urges Vietnam to remain 'calm' after Hanoi protests against Beijing's South China Sea drills

Hanoi said it was deeply concerned about the Chinese military exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin area

By Nandini Krishnamoorthy
September 1, 2017 14:29 BST

China has urged Vietnam to remain "calm" and take a "rational view" after Hanoi strongly opposed a military drill that Beijing was planning to conduct in the South China Sea.

Vietnam on Thursday (31 August) protested to the Chinese embassy about what it said was an announcement of military drills in the disputed waterway, amid tensions between the neighbours over territories that both the sides claim.

It is not clear what drills Vietnam was referring to or when such an announcement was made by Beijing. It also did not say when the training exercises might take place.

However, Hanoi said it was deeply concerned about the Chinese military drills in the Gulf of Tonkin area, which is situated in the northern region of the South China Sea.

"Vietnam proposes China to cease and refrain from repeating acts that complicate the situation in the East Sea," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said. Hanoi usually refers to the South China Sea as East Sea.

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She continued that all foreign countries must comply with Vietnamese and international laws for any activities conducted in the mineral-rich strategic waterway.

Reacting to Vietnam's opposition, the Chinese Foreign Ministry on Friday (1 September) said the drills were routine exercises that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy were carrying out.

Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying asserted that China had the rights to carry out such drills in the waters there as they were held in Chinese territories. "The relevant sea is under China's jurisdiction," Reuters cited Hua as saying.

"We hope the relevant side can calmly and rationally view it."

Vietnam has long been anxious of renewed Chinese military action targeting the country and driving it off its 21 holdings in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea.

Earlier in July, Hanoi came under Chinese pressure to suspend its oil and gas drilling in offshore waters within the "nine-dash line" that China claims.


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Vietnamese sailors patrol on Phan Vinh Island in the Spratly archipelago - File photoVietnam News Agency/Reuters

Talisman-Vietnam, a subsidiary of Spain's Repsol Oil, began its gas-drilling expedition on 21 June in an area about 400km (250 miles) off the Vietnamese coast. The drilling was seen by China as an apparent move by Hanoi to reinforce its claims against its bigger rival in the territorial dispute.

The company was ordered to leave the area after China reportedly threatened to attack Vietnamese military bases.

Tensions between Vietnam and China over drilling for oil in the mineral-rich sea date back to 2014 when coastguards from both sides confronted each other in the South China Sea.

Chinese vessels were reported to have intentionally rammed into Vietnamese boats in an area where Beijing had placed a massive oil rig, according to Hanoi.

China's deployment of the first rig sparked a diplomatic standoff with Vietnam in 2014 which also resulted in both countries' navies clashing and anti-China riots erupting across Vietnam.

Both sides have since met for several official talks. Although there has been little progress so far, the two sides have refrained from serious confrontations.
 
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9M14 guided armor piercing anti tank missile, range 3,000m. an effective means to stop battalions of enemy tanks.

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Those anti tank missiles are actually quite old, but are now being upgraded with a new tandem warhead that can penetrate 750-800 mm of armor and it also has faster speed with a range up to 3 km. After the upgrade, those missiles are still quite effective against modern armor particularly if hitting the right spots.

Here is a pic of the old and new warheads.
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What has Wolf Warrior 2 in common with Rambo 2? And what has it to do with VN, why I bring the topic here?

Both "heroes" in the movies are ex elite soldiers being patriots but feeling betrayed by their governments. While Rambo went to Vietnam to free the US prisoners of war, the Chinese hero went to Africa to free Chinese tourists and other individuals. Both kill enemies in mass with lots of effects. Rambo 2 was the third most successful blockbusters of all times back then, while the Chinese clone does great in domestic theaters. More about the PLA and Chinese government in the movie can be read in the following article.


http://m.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft...r-rambo-aus-dem-reich-der-mitte-15143149.html


WOLF WARRIORS 2
Der Rambo aus dem Reich der Mitte
VON HENDRIK ANKENBRAND, SCHANGHAI
AKTUALISIERT AM 09.08.2017


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Ein von Patriotismus durchsetzter Actionfilm bricht an Chinas Kinokassen alle Rekorde – neuer Nationalismus in der Volksrepublik? Die chinesische Filmindustrie zeigt nur, wie gut sie von Hollywood gelernt hat.

Es ist ein Filmskript ganz nach dem Geschmack des Massenpublikums: Ein Elitesoldat außer Dienst muss fern der Heimat in einem exotischen Land vom Tod bedrohte Landsleute retten. Die Aufgabe erledigt er mit reichlich Muskel- und noch mehr Feuerkraft sowie einer Prise trockenem Humors. Auf und jenseits des Schlachtfelds weht dabei stets ein eine gehörige Brise Nationalstolz durch die Luft.

„Die stärksten Gefühle, die ein Mann hat, sind sein Glaube, seine Liebe für seine Angehörigen und seine Liebe für sein Land“, sagt der Hauptdarsteller des Actionstreifens im Interview. „Wenn Du keine Männer hast, die bereit sind, für ihr Land zu sterben, dann hast Du kein Land.“

Das sagte Hollywood-Star Sylvester Stallone im Jahr 1985 der „New York Times“, als sein neuer Film „Rambo II“ in den ersten sechs Tagen an den Kinokassen in Amerika damals außergewöhnlich hohe Einnahmen von 32,5 Millionen Dollar eingespielt hatte. Das machte die Geschichte des Vietnam-Veterans John Rambo, der im zweiten Teil der Saga um den früheren Elitesoldaten mit den schier übermenschlichen Kräften zurück in den vietnamesischen Dschungel kehrte und alte Kameraden rettete, zum bis dahin dritterfolgreichsten Film überhaupt. Nur „Indiana Jones und der Tempel des Todes“ sowie der dritte „Star Wars“-Spielfilm „Die Rückkehr der Jedi-Ritter“ hatten bis zu diesem Zeitpunkt mehr Umsatz generiert.

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Gut dreißig Jahre später scheint der amerikanische Kriegsheld „Rambo“ wieder auferstanden – in Gestalt seines chinesischen Pendants namens Leng Feng. Der frühere Elitesoldat und späteres Mitglied einer chinesischen Spezialeinheit mit dem Titel „Kriegswölfe“ rettet durchtrainiert und mit allerlei Kampfkunst gesegnet im tiefsten Afrika chinesische Landsleute aus den Wirren eines Bürgerkrieges – und jede Menge unschuldiger Afrikaner gleich mit.

„Wolf Warriors 2“ heißt der Film aus chinesischer Eigenproduktion, der in den ersten 13 Tagen seit der Premiere so viele Chinesen ins Kino gelockt hat, dass er bis einschließlich Dienstag laut der Filmdatenbank Maoyan mehr als 3,5 Milliarden Yuan eingespielt hat (446 Millionen Euro) – und das bei Herstellungkosten von gerade mal 200 Millionen Yuan (26 Millionen Euro), einem Siebzehntel.

Der Film trägt den Untertitel „Wer immer China angreift, wird getötet, egal wie weit das Ziel entfernt ist“. Das und die Tatsache, dass im Film die chinesische Marine eine Nebenrolle spielt und reichlich chinesische Nationalflaggen über die Leinwand wehen, hat in manchen Medien bereits Sorge vor dem Wiederaufkeimen des Nationalismus in China hervorgerufen.

„Patriotisch“ sei der Plot, argwöhnte die „Financial Times“ in der Überschrift. Die Hongkonger „South China Morning Post“ machte einen „nationalistischen Ton“ in dem Kassenschlager aus und schlussfolgerte, dass der Film aus diesem Grund im Ausland niemals Erfolg haben werde.

Tatsächlich präsentiert sich Produzent, Regisseur und Hauptdarsteller Wu Jing, vor 43 Jahren in Peking geboren und in China als Martial Arts-Star bekannt, bei der Vorstellung des Film neben überdimensionalen Ausgaben chinesischer Reisepässe, während im Hintergrund Hunderte Fans chinesische Nationalflaggen schwangen.

Selbstironie
Nationalismus allerdings dürfte zumindest den Erfolg dieses Films kaum erklären. Kurz vor dem Start von „Wolf Warrior 2“ brachte Pekings Propagandamaschinerie den Spielfilm „Die Gründung einer Armee“ ins Kino, die tatsächlich von Nationalismus getränkte Geschichte der Volksbefreiungsarmee, deren 90-jähriges Bestehen Chinas Präsident Xi Jinping jüngst in einer markigen Ansprache und mit dem Besuch einer voller noch nie gezeigtem Kriegsgerät starrenden Militärparade gewürdigt hat. An den Kinokassen ist der Film jedoch gefloppt.

Nachdem sich die F.A.Z. in Schanghai den Kassenschlager „Wolf Warrior 2“ am gestrigen Dienstagabend angesehen hat, muss konstatiert werden: von nationalistischem Überschwang im Kinopublikum kann nicht berichtet werden. Dafür ist der Film stellenweise auch zu selbstironisch und spielt zuweilen in vergleichsweise überraschender Deutlichkeit mit anti-chinesischen Klischees.

Freundschaft mit Afrika
Der Erfolg des Streifens, das wird auch aus den Kommentaren der Kinogänger in den Sozialen Medien in China deutlich, ist eher in seiner Machart begründet, die sich klar am Vorbild der „Rambo“-Saga aus Hollywood orientiert. Bei Chinas neuem Kassenschlager handelt es sich um ein zwei Stunden dauerndes Actionspektakel von beachtlicher Qualität, das auch für Ausländer vergnüglich anzusehen ist. Die Kommunistische Partei wird überhaupt nicht thematisiert; die chinesische Regierung kommt nur in Gestalt eines Botschafters vor. Die Marine feuert zum Schluss ein paar Lenkraketen ab, das war es auch schon.

Im Hintergrundrauschen berichtet „Wolf Warriors“ dabei von einer größeren Rolle Chinas auf der Weltbühne und feiert die Freundschaft des Landes mit Afrika, in dem chinesische Unternehmen in den vergangenen Jahren groß investiert haben.

Der Wolf kommt wieder
„Wir müssen von anderen Ländern lernen“, hat Chinas Modernisierer Deng Xiaoping einst gesagt, als er die Wirtschaft des Landes öffnete. Die chinesische Filmindustrie hat die Worte nun in die Tat umgesetzt. Auch im Hinblick auf das schier endlose Strecken des Vermarktungszyklus, den Hollywood schon lange vor „Rambo“ mustergültig vorgemacht hatte.

In der Endsequenz von „Wolf Warriors 2“ erreicht den Helden Leng Feng inmitten des Ausruhens vom anstrengenden Rettungseinsatz in Afrika schon wieder der Anruf eines Vorgesetzten – mit dem Auftrag für eine neue Mission. Wie einst John Rambo wird wohl auch seine chinesische Entsprechung noch oft auf die Kinoleinwände zurückkehren – schließlich übersteigt kaum etwas die „Liebe für Dein Land“.




Quelle: FAZ.NET
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Hendrik Ankenbrand
Wirtschaftskorrespondent für China mit Sitz in Schanghai.
 
Has India Secretly Supplied Vietnam with Brahmos Supersonic Missiles?
ASIA & PACIFIC
updated 04:02 02.09.2017

Vietnamese state media claim Hanoi and New Delhi not only agreed on a deal to send BrahMos supersonic projectiles to Hanoi, but also say the weapons have been delivered. India’s Ministry of External Relations, though, denies such a deal exists.

When asked specifically about the acquisition of the BrahMos, Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Thi Thu Hang said on August 18 “the procurement of defense equipment by Vietnam is consistent with the policy of peace and self-defense and is the normal practice in self-defense.”

India’s External Relations Ministry said reports of BrahMos cruise missiles reaching Hanoi were “incorrect” August 22.

Whether the deal has been completed could have major strategic implications. First, the short-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile has a 600-kilometer range that puts some Chinese-owned features in the South China Sea in range. The level of tension between Hanoi and Beijing peaked recently when the People’s Liberation Army threatened to attack Vietnamese posts in the South China Sea if a joint venture between Hanoi and Madrid to explore oil fields there wasn’t called off.



Secondly, Beijing and New Dehli have only just ended a chilling military standoff at the Doklam Plateau that began in mid-June. With bilateral relations between China and India already sensitive, the shipment of the fastest missiles on Earth to Vietnam could spark unwanted rifts.

The BrahMos is made jointly by India’s Defence Research and Development Organization and NPO Mashinostroyenia, which was formed by New Dehli and Moscow in 1998.

Vietnam remains a central aspect of India’s Act East foreign policy initiative to build influence in Southeast Asia. In the same way Beijing has cultivated ties with Pakistan, a country perennially at odds with India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has sought deeper relations with Hanoi, the Diplomat reports. In 2016, Modi made the first trip by an Indian prime minister to Vietnam in 15 years as the countries’ leaders toasted to 10 years of strategic partnership.


On August 10, US Defense Secretary James Mattis announced that a US aircraft carrier would drop anchor off Vietnam’s coast in 2018 as Vietnam becomes a more important counterweight to Beijing. And just on Friday, the Wall Street Journal broke news that the Pentagon had finalized a schedule for the US Navy to conduct freedom of navigation operations (FONOPs) in the South China Sea “to create a more consistent posture to counter China’s maritime claims there.”

Beijing has routinely bashed FONOPs, though Washington views them as a way to highlight its excessive claims in the South China Sea. US Pacific Command has completed the finishing touches on a plan to conduct two or three FONOPs over the next few months, unnamed US officials told the WSJ.

https://sputniknews.com/asia/201709021057016649-india-secretly-supplied-vietnam-missiles/
 
More infrastructure for Vietnam remote islands. More for the SC sea. Southeast Asia longest sea crossing bridge: 5.4 km Tân Vũ bridge in the northern part of Vietnam, part of a highway, built with a cost of more than half billion dollar.

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VN oil rigs. More to come.

Maybe sea mines should be laid out to protect our territories and assets against unwanted guests and other individuals.


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Chinese cyber spies broaden attacks in Vietnam, security firm says
Cyber spies working for or on behalf of China’s government have broadened attacks against official and corporate targets in Vietnam at a time of raised tension over the South China Sea, cyber security company FireEye said.

FireEye told Reuters the attacks happened in recent weeks and it had traced them back to suspected Chinese cyber spies based partly on the fact that a Chinese group it had identified previously had used the same infrastructure before.

“Where China has often focused on the government before, this shows they are really hitting the full commercial sector potentially in Vietnam and trying to gather a broad base of information there,” said Ben Read, who heads FireEye’s cyber espionage team.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China opposed all forms of illegal internet activities or stealing of secrets and also opposed any accusations from any side against any country on the issue without cast-iron proof.

Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said cyber attacks should be severely punished in accordance with the law and that it was important for countries to secure their networks.

Vietnam denies allowing cyber espionage although it has also been accused by FireEye of carrying out attacks.

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Tension between China and neighboring Vietnam is at its highest in three years over the disputed South China Sea, where Vietnam has emerged as the most vocal opponents of Beijing’s extensive claims.

Vietnam suspended oil drilling in offshore waters that are also claimed by China in July under pressure from Beijing.

China has appeared uneasy at Vietnam’s efforts to rally Southeast Asian countries over the South China Sea as well as at its growing defense relationships with the United States, Japan and India.

China claims nearly all the South China Sea, through which an estimated $3 trillion in international trade passes each year. Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Taiwan also have claims.

FireEye said the attacks in Vietnam involved sending users documents in Vietnamese which appeared to be requests for financial information. A broad range of companies appeared to have been targeted, including financial institutions, it said without giving specific details.

When the user opened them, they delivered malware which could infect a computer and send back information to the cyber spies, potentially letting them into the computer network too.

FireEye linked the attacks to a team it calls Conimes because in the past it used the conimes.com domain. The team focuses on Southeast Asia, but its main target is Vietnam and even more so since tensions rose over the South China Sea, Read said.

He was unable to say exactly what information had been gathered.

Vietnamese President Tran Dai Quang called earlier this month for tighter Internet controls to provide better protection against cyber threats as well as to prevent websites and social media publishing material damaging to the communist party.

Read said the attacks it had discovered on Vietnam were relatively unsophisticated and relied on users having pre-2012 versions of Microsoft Word.

“They are using comparatively simple techniques because apparently they work,” he said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...s-in-vietnam-security-firm-says-idUSKCN1BB0I5
 
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