“By spoiling relations with China, Vietnam will get nothing. Besides, the Americans have a habit of screwing up their allies as they did to the South Vietnamese authorities in the end of the Vietnam War,”

Via comment by Reborn on San Jose’s Vietnamese councilmen call out airline’..."I would think Ho Chi Minh City would be right at home in America based on the atmosphere in America today - COMMUNIST. By the way, they're back: I guess they haven't subjugated Vietnam enough. Use 'em and abuse 'em."

 

The arrival of an American aircraft carrier in Vietnam indicates Washington’s intention to make the country a part of its new anti-Chinese block, which also includes Japan, Australia and India, an expert on Asia told RT. 

 

USS Carl Vinson and two other US Navy vessels were greeted in the port of Danang on Monday, marking the largest American military presence in the country since the Vietnam War in 1955-1975.

The five-day visit of the 103,000-ton aircraft carrier is “a minor provocation against China...aimed at inciting or strengthening the anti-Chinese moods among the Vietnamese,” said Yury Tavrovsky, a professor at the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia.

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