>>3711103

Going to be very interdasting to see what Vietnam commies do if DJT goes into a shooting war with ChiComs in the Spratlys and Paracels.

Public sentiment in Vietnam is adamant that the islands (some of them anyway) come (back) under Vietnamese control. However most of their commie overlords in Hanoi are on the ChiCom payroll and have been for a long, long time.

If the Hanoi commies lend military support in a hypothetical US-China war in the islands, they will score big points with their own people, but will anger their overlords in Beijing.

If the Hanoi commies do nothing during a US-China war over the islands, they will lose face among their people and I'm not sure DJT would be inclined to turn any of the islands over to Vietnam to administrate.

TL;DR the whole scenario looks ripe to discredit the Hanoi commies and help the Vietnamese #MVGA.

>>3711103

In 1958, the Hanoi commies informed the ChiComs that Hanoi recognizes Chinese suzerainty over the Paracels and Spratlys… it was understood at the time that this was a non-cash, partial reimbursement to China for its military assistance at Dien Bien Phu and previous battles against the French in Indochina.

Now the Hanoi commies are trying to back-track and save face among their own people, but it's hard for them to deny what their own Foreign Ministsry did back in the 50s.

Most embarrassingly for them, it was actually South Vietnam that steadfastly defended Vietnamese control of the islands. After decades of painting the Saigon govt as 'lackeys of the American neo-imperialists', it's now hard for Hanoi to use anything Saigon did as justification for its current policies though.