“China has indisputable sovereignty over the South China Sea islands,”
No, it doesn’t.
I have no love for Viet Nam, but do you ever get the feeling that China thinks it’s entitled to everything in the Far East? Pretty soon they’ll be telling the Japanese to get off their islands because they belong to China, too. Which is funny because leftists always chide us for being imperialist, but when there’s actual imperialism going on, you don’t hear a damn thing from them.
/bitter
The Spratly Islands again.
Vietnam’s been dealing with Chinese demands for thousands of years; they’ll handle it fine, one way or the other.