LOL nobody was on Taiping Island when China (ROC) occupied it after WW2. Vietnam was still a French colony after the Japanese was defeated by the Allies (including China)
We cut your cable because Vietnam refuses to accept China's EEZ in the Spratly Islands, especially around Taiping Island. If you accept our ownership of the Spratlys, we won't obstruct drilling so close to your shores.
Taiping Island is controlled by Taiwan, and Vietnam agrees Taiwan is a part of China: the "one China principle"!
Everything else is reefs, not a real island, so those reefs Vietnam holds have no EEZ! It's just a waste of money.
No fresh water, not a real island. No EEZ. It's just a waste of Vietnam's money.