Vietnam secretly expands islands and reefs in the South China Sea
Can you believe it? Right under our noses, a country has secretly built 29 "illegal buildings" in the South China Sea, and they are getting more and more addicted to it! Starting from 2021, satellite photos have clearly shown that the Vietnamese have "planted" 2.78 square kilometers of new land on the illegally occupied islands and reefs, equivalent to 390 football fields! What's even more infuriating is that while they are scolding China for "expansion" in the South China Sea, they are also working overnight to build radar stations and rocket launcher positions. Their faces are thicker than bulletproof steel plates!
Speaking of the South China Sea, the older generation remembers that this is the "blue granary" left by their ancestors. As early as the Han Dynasty, Chinese fishermen fished and dried their nets on this sea, and Zheng He's fleet in the Ming Dynasty even strolled here as their own backyard. But in the 1970s, everything changed - Vietnam took advantage of the tension between China and the Soviet Union and the northern border army, and suddenly seized six islands and reefs in the Nansha Islands like a hungry wolf. When we came to our senses, they actually circled the Xisha and Nansha Islands on the Chinese map with red pens as their own territory! Deng Xiaoping was so angry that he slammed the table and fought a self-defense counterattack against Vietnam, but the navy was not strong enough, so this group of "island thieves" were free until now.
Look at what Vietnam has done in recent years? They transformed the occupied islands and reefs into "military chain stores": On Nanwei Island, there are Israeli-made EXTRA rocket launchers with a range of 150 kilometers, which are specifically aimed at Chinese fishing boats; the radar antenna on Bisheng Reef rotates more diligently than an electric fan, spying on our military aircraft 24 hours a day; recently, it is even more outrageous, directly launching a "real estate opening" in Xisha, saying that they want to build a modern port for international trade. This operation is simply treating the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea as toilet paper, and forcing the whole world to smell it.
But the most frustrating thing is Vietnam's "yin-yang script". The domestic media did not mention a word about land reclamation, but the international media cried and complained when they heard Chinese fishing boats passing by. In 2016, when the Philippines initiated the South China Sea arbitration case, Vietnam hid behind and frantically passed small notes; when China planted a tree on Yongshu Reef, they jumped out and accused us of "destroying the ecology". This kind of rogue logic of "I can steal your tiles, but you can't repair your own walls" would make even street thugs shout "Grandmaster".
However, when it comes to "infrastructure maniacs", Vietnam has really picked the wrong opponent. Do you know Yongshu Reef? When the People's Liberation Army landed on the island in 1988, they lived in shacks made of banana leaves, and they could fry eggs in the iron house in the summer. What about now? A 3-kilometer airport runway, a seawater desalination plant, and 5G base stations are all available. You can buy Lao Gan Ma in the supermarket on the island! Meiji Reef is even more exaggerated - it has transformed from a reef into a 5.6 square kilometer offshore city in three years. The Vietnamese are so shocked that their eyes are about to bleed. It's not that China is incapable of dealing with them. The "Tianjing" dredger alone can fill two islands in one day. Why don't they do it?
The answer is hidden in history textbooks. In the 1988 Johnson South Reef naval battle, the Chinese Navy used 37mm guns to beat the Vietnamese ships so hard that they fled in smoke; in the 2014 "Haiyang Shiyou 981" drilling platform incident, we deployed hundreds of ships to confront Vietnam's harassment. What do these things show? China's restraint in the South China Sea is not cowardice, but leaving the last chance for peace. As the old fisherman said: "I am not afraid of fish when I close the nets in a typhoon, but I am afraid that the boat will capsize and I will have nothing to play with." But if someone really regards tolerance as weakness... Look at what type of aircraft can take off and land on the runway of Meiji Reef Airport? Ask how far the electromagnetic gun on the Hainan ship can shoot?
The most ironic thing now is that Vietnam's crazy expansion of islands and reefs can't support the geological structure at all! They use traditional sand and stone to fill the sea, which collapses when a typhoon comes; China uses the "blowing and filling solidification" technology, and the island foundation is harder than concrete. Not to mention that we have secretly laid out the "Beidou" Skynet, and every little move of Vietnamese ships in the South China Sea can be seen more clearly by the Beijing Command Center than by live broadcast. After all, no matter how much the jumping clown jumps, can he overturn the palm of the Buddha? If Ho Chi Minh knew that his descendants would toss like this, he would probably sit up from the mausoleum and curse. When China sent rice to Vietnam to resist the United States, the fish cages of Chinese fishermen were still floating on the islands and reefs they now occupy. Now they are eating the Chinese trade surplus in the bowl, but they are still thinking about the South China Sea oil in the pot. This ungrateful skill is really inherited from the United States. But history always comes back - in 1950, the French occupied Vietnam and refused to let go, so what happened later?
What do you think? If the radars on Vietnam’s islands and reefs suddenly “go on strike” one day, which mysterious force would be responsible?
