They had already gotten into “confrontations” over fuel exploration near Vanguard Bank in the 1990s, said Carl Thayer, Southeast Asia-specialized emeritus professor with the University of New South Wales. government has been massing allies in Asia over the past two years to help contain China’s maritime expansion.Ĭhina and Vietnam are used to conflicts over maritime sovereignty, and new ones come up despite diplomatic moves to solve previous ones. Washington may eventually push to send its aircraft carriers to Vietnam once a year, Thayer said. It normally taps Russia for weaponry, such as missile stealth frigates, Hiebert said. The Southeast Asian country acquired six U.S. It “must effectively coordinate with other military forces and civilian forces to build a whole-nation defense and people-based defense, while at the same time, maintaining diplomatic efforts, especially in terms of exchanges with naval forces from other countries,” he said. The Vietnamese navy should work with foreign governments, the commissar was quoted saying. “Vietnam realized that they had to modernize their navy to cope with the harassment from the Chinese coast guard,” said Trung Nguyen, international relations dean at Ho Chi Minh University of Social Sciences and Humanities.
These two upsets are just the latest between the territorial rivals dating back centuries.įILE - A ship (top) of Chinese Coast Guard is seen near a ship of Vietnam Marine Guard in the South China Sea, about 210 km (130 miles) off shore of Vietnam, May 14, 2014. China and Vietnam vie for sovereignty over tracts of the sea where these two incidents have occurred. More recently, Chinese coast guard boats have approached a Vietnamese undersea energy exploration site near Vanguard Bank in the South China Sea. The commissar’s words follow the sinking of a Vietnamese fishing vessel in March - Vietnam says at the hands of China. “In this complicated situation that poses many threats to the country’s defense and security, given the Navy’s role as the key defender of the country’s sovereignty, the Viet Nam People’s Navy must do more to build a strong, developed, skilled and modern naval force that can fulfill all assigned missions,” said the commissar, Phạm Văn Vững. Thanks for Reading.A Vietnamese military official advocates developing a more modern, better skilled navy that can hold off complex threats, mainly what experts believe to be increasing pressure from China.Ī rear admiral and political commissar in Hanoi told the official Viet Nam News August 6 that the navy could not be “taken by surprise at any development.
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