[husky ed]

Vietnam is claiming the area and would rule it the same as China. Though Nam does not have the Navy that China does. Same with the Philippines.

None of them are happy that the U.S. considers it International waters and freely sails through it.

We need to put up a Naval Museum off the coast of Nam with old timey war ships and bombard the shite out of the place ;-)

Ed

[kabar]

None of them are happy that the U.S. considers it International waters and freely sails through it.

Any basis for that assertion, especially as it pertains to the Philippines,

[Oztrich Boy]

>Vietnam is claiming the area and would rule it the same as China

1. Vietnam has never built islands in the area and put air bases in them

2. Vietnamese claim over the area runs, pretty much undisputed, from the 17th century to quite recently

3. When France was the occupying power it also considered the area as part of its Indochina territory

4. At the end of World War 2, the Allied Powers, including China, did not include the region as "former Japanese occupied, to be returned to China "

You and the Chicom warlords don't have a de jure leg to stand on