Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Vietnam’s Strategic Shifts and Rising Tensions in the South China Sea; China Reacts Sourly" video.

  1. Vietnam has a kong history with China.. of being invaded. Vietnam also has had a long history of resisting these invasions (except cultural, like Rome some things that came out of China were appreciated), to the great annoyance of the Chinese. But like the Romans, the Chinese emipres of old and the current CCP indicate that China is an expansionist land power, and continually pushes at it's borders into smaller bordering states like Vietnam. The French invasion of the nineteenth century, and the Americans of the twentieth of Vietnam were eggregious, but not of prime importance to the Vietnamese, because once the whites were gone they were unlikely to return as hostile invaders, and their homelands are far away. Unfortunately, to the Vietnamese, China is awlawys there and continually grabbing parcels of land off of it. The massacre of 80÷ Vietnamese at the Battle of the Spratley Islands probably is another untold chapter of enormities against Vietnam that the Vietnamese have not forgotten. It would not suprise me, that when the CCP collapses, the Vietnamese may re-occupy the Paracel Islands and some parts of it's Northern provinces that China grabbed off it in tbe 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war. There may also be temptation for the Vietnamese to take over Heinan island, if they are strong enough at sea.
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