Posted on 08/09/2019 2:26:33 AM PDT by cba123
A fleet of Chinese ships has left Vietnam's exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, Hanoi said Thursday, ending a tense month-long stand off in the resource-rich waterway claimed by both sides and others.
A Chinese survey vessel and several accompanying ships entered the waters around the Spratly Islands early last month, drawing ire from Hanoi, the US and the EU over Chinese increasing aggression in the resource-rich seas.
Hanoi on Thursday confirmed the vessels had left its exclusive economic zone, after weeks of repeated demands to vacate.
"On August 7, 2019, the group of Haiyang 8 vessels belonging to China ended its geological survey operation and left Vietnam's exclusive economic zone," foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang told reporters.
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Is your homeland safe now?
Survey vessels are a necessary prelude to invasion. I t is not time to celebrate, itsntime to prepare.
Survey vessels are a necessary prelude to invasion. I t is not time to celebrate, it is time to prepare.
No doubt, the Chinese will be back, as they consider much of the immediate territory, both land and sea, to be largely their own hegemony, and they only wait on the Trump Administration to be succeeded in office by a more “compliant” US regime.
Democrats do not have “administrations”, they have what is better described as “regimes”, or “interregnums” at best. Oliver Cromwell, who presided over the original draft of the Third Reich, would be so proud. But even he was finally subject to the fate of all men, and the royalty was restored after his death. In the spirit of vengeance, Cromwell’s body was exhumed and he was executed by the court of King Charles II.
IOW, they’re leaving because they’re done with whatever they were doing. Not because they give up.
Survey vessels are a necessary prelude to invasion. I t is not time to celebrate, it is time to prepare.
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Soory didn’t mean to appropriate the post. Just wanted to agree 100%. China plays the long game.
Bait and switch?
I just don’t trust the Chinese government at all. The people, yes, the government, no.
My homeland is, and always will be America. I was born there, raised there, grew up there, and worked there for a long time (except for three years I lived in China and Taiwan)
Now I live in Vietnam. I am married here and plan to live here now, for a number of years.
Yes I support Vietnam, but my home is and always will be America.
No, it isn't your home. If it was your home you would live here. You live permanently in another country.
Oh never mind.
Thank you.
The last time Vietnam and China had a military confrontation,the latter had the behinds handed to them. There was pain and suffering on both ends but China finally quit.
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