Posted on 04/13/2020 3:12:24 AM PDT by Helicondelta
The Vietnamese ship was sunk near the disputed Paracel Islands, an island chain which has been one of the hot points of tension in the area.
(Excerpt) Read more at express.co.uk ...
China and Vietnam do not like each other. In fact the enmity goes back centuries.
CC
Did China reall send 4 different Coast Guard cutters to do the deed, or did the paper just pull any stock photos they could find?
90 million Vietnamese, including 7.5 million in Hanoi will not be bullied by China.
I visited Hanoi in February and there was a lot of anti China sentiment. They were very proud that they kept China out, unlike Laos and Cambodia.
4 different boats.....and why would they have China Coast Guard written in English?
I see a wonderful business opportunity to sell parts of our mothball fleet to countries in the area. We could make it a financed purchase. Then, let China play bumpies with a Fletcher class.
China and Viet Nam, for example, have fought a resent war. Viet Nam used their second line troops and handed China a bloody nose. But, China has built infrastructure to overcome their inability to supply an army on Viet Nam’s border region as well as forward logistics bases.
Because they know Britannia rules the waves?
Because English is the language of international relations and communication. Chances are good that at least one person on any vessel will be able to read or at least decipher English. Not so much with written Chinese, even in that part of the world.
Because all the foreigners in merchant ships at sea read English, not Chinese.
They are sailors of all lands and climes, but mostly Indians and Filipinos these days.
Because Brittania and the USN used to rule the waves.
Fletchers are gone, even the OHP frigates are fragile as heck and are being scrapped. The mothball fleet’s getting a bit thin these days.
Which is all the more a wonder why we thought it was a good idea to honor France’s post war demands that Vietnam be returned to them, and told Ho Chih Minh to go bugger off. We could have avoided a lot of dead Americans and a lot of heartache if we’d told the French to go screw themselves and left the Vietnamese to organize their own country as a vague ally of the US.
Anyone who looked at Vietnamese history would have known this was a bad idea and that France’s colonization of the country was a fluke.
“The mothball fleet’s getting a bit thin these days.”
Damn! We don’t have a couple of flush deck four stackers lying around?
A US Carrier Group needs to be in the South China Sea to help Vietnam. The VN government may be commie, but the population is firmly entrenched in capitalism and loves Americans.
We sold/traded/leased the majority of the Clemson swarm and the surviving Wickes class to the British in the last world war, remember? :P
The last Wickes was scrapped in 1952, none survive today. The last intact Clemson was scrapped in 1955, though there are a couple of beached wrecks still around.
At that time it could be argued that Vietnam had the best light infantry in the world.
Here is the list of mothball ship ports, each of which contains a list of the ships mothballed there. The list of ships is pretty small these days... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_reserve_fleets#List_of_current_USN_reserve_fleets
“We sold/traded/leased the majority of the Clemson swarm and the surviving Wickes class to the British in the last world war, remember? :P”
I realized I was writing to someone who knew his ships. It was intended to give you a chuckle. However, you did provoke me to look for this. Very interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy_reserve_fleets#Pacific_Reserve_Fleet
And here’s what’s currently in the NISMFs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Inactive_Ship_Maintenance_Facility
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