Vietnam reportedly moves new rocket launchers into disputed South China Sea

We can all thank China for creating this situation /s

And genuinely thank the US for standing up to the bully in the region.

Whole area is a powder keg. China will just keep pushing and pushing and pushing until someone makes a mistake.

Excellent

Why aren't leaders sanctioning China? Simply because they've been bought.

Now the arms race is escalating

Would've been better if the old status quo of just small outposts was kept, before the whole turning reclaimed reefs into airfields

China took its first Spratlys possessions after a sea battle against Vietnam’s then weak navy in 1988.

A lot of people don't know this since it wasn't on the news

In recent years, Vietnam has significantly improved its naval capabilities as part of a broader military modernisation, including buying six advanced Kilo submarines from Russia.

Arms business has been good to Russia too

Another Cold War

@ lostrune@

"A lot of people don't know this since it wasn;t on the news"

In the 1950s. the then Sth Vietnam PM and later the current Regimes bot declared publicly that the Paracel and Spratlys Islands wren/are Chinas' territories since the Song Dynasty. After WWII these territories Japan returned these territories in a formal handover to China with the assistance of the USA in ferrying the Chinese soldiers and officers to the island in US naval vessels - A lot of people don't know this part of the history since it was not on the news.

Under the Treaty of Paris and also thought Philippines Congress had formally stated that all the islands . shoals and reefs are outside Philippines territory and does not belong to Philippines. Maps published in 1947 by Russia, Japan, France, Germany and Britain all showed the Paracel and the Spratly are Chinas' territories including the 11 dash lines. - A lot of people do not know this.

Did anyone not expect this to happen? China's unilateral military buildup in the area made such moves by other nations inevitable. China has made the chances of a war occurring, whether by design or inadvertently, a reality.

The world according to China believes that Vietnam is moving those systems into the area to assist Chinese sovereignty right? I bet that is the bull that the CCP is trying to promote.

New rocket launchers huh. Ohh!! That's right, Obama lifted the decades old Arms Embargo. Nothing wrong with the administration making a few $$ running guns into the south china sea. The Iran Deal was stupid though.

Excellent, now, for some "Test" firings.

The move is designed to counter China’s build-up on its seven reclaimed islands in the Spratlys archipelago. Vietnam’s military strategists fear the building runways, radars and other military installations on those holdings have left Vietnam’s southern and island defences increasingly vulnerable

A legitimate fear indeed.

Hmm. Kinda makes you think Viet Nam's friendly and open attitude towards the US is not just for access to our domestic market....

Announced a day after satellite images of the coral reef destroyed to becom an airstrip with aircraft hangers. That island need to be returned to a reef again otherwise China will claim it as China expanding legally its boundaries.

China's economy depends on export to the consuming nations and collectively we hold the better hand. I would hope together we consumer nations put China in its place and soon!

Oh things are getting bad. It's looking like a war is going to happen...So sad, people will die.

They need to reach a deal in the area, like half in fishing and oil, or war will breakout.

What do we do? Sanctions.

If we are going to even try prevent war, the west must put growth sanctions on China.

Putting "growth" Sanctions on China will mainly hurt them, as there outlook is set to a max %.

Let's say there growth is 6%. We will make it a max of 5%, not letting them import more stuff.

If we want to prevent war, then sanctions are a must.

"RedcliffAug. 10, 2016 - 08:38PM JST

@ lostrune@

"A lot of people don't know this since it wasn;t on the news"

In the 1950s. the then Sth Vietnam PM and later the current Regimes bot declared publicly that the Paracel and Spratlys Islands wren/are Chinas' territories since the Song Dynasty. After WWII these territories Japan returned these territories in a formal handover to China with the assistance of the USA in ferrying the Chinese soldiers and officers to the island in US naval vessels - A lot of people don't know this part of the history since it was not on the news."

You seem to have a very selective view of history and to be privy to information that no one else has any knowledge of.. Japan did not "return those territories in a formal handover to China;" it only renounced title to them. After its defeat in WWII Japan did not have any power to decide who those territories belonged to.

Japan did not "return those territories in a formal handover to China;" it only renounced title to them. After its defeat in WWII Japan did not have any power to decide who those territories belonged to.

And people don't know that the origin of the Nine Dash Line is somebody in China just drew the line after WW2.

That's it. No official basis. Just drew a line. No formal claims filed to the international bodies, not even now.

They're fighting over a line that didn't even exist until after WW2 lol

New rocket launchers huh. Ohh!! That's right, Obama lifted the decades old Arms Embargo. Nothing wrong with the administration making a few $$ running guns into the south china sea.

The article says right there that the EXTRA rocket artillery system is Israel's.