US-Philippines Reach Deal on US Military Access

[sincity]

You are pushing us closer to that pact, let see the Phillipine act ... why you dont imagine the same happen to Vietnam.
Japan, USA is more than welcome to have the positive response in building an alliance against China ...

I think, that's too much problem created for China to handle those 2 countries ... more enemies really not good ...

Viet Nam either China enemy or friend, US dropped 2 nukes on Japan and later become allied. Friend or foe will change with time. Phillipine and Japan allies without US military support won't stand a chance in the future conflict with China. Fact US is the only power in Asia can balance China military assertion.

 

[BoQ77]

I guess Japan is another power in near future ...
Take care for yourself ///

 

[sincity]

I guess Japan is another power in near future ...
Take care for yourself ///

Japan can't call the shot, US call the shot on Japan foreign policy.

 

[BoQ77]

Japan can't call the shot, US call the shot on Japan foreign policy.

So you should claim USA not Japan ...

 

[Wholegrain]

Japan could claimed for the nowaday Republic of China territory, legally.
Even Christopher Columbus cannot claimed for America ...

The Cairo Declaration, drafted by the Allies and China towards the end of World War II, listed the territories that the Allies intended to strip from Japan and return to China. Despite China being among the authors of the declaration, this list did not include the Spratlys.[39] Vietnam's response to China's claim that the Cairo Declaration somehow recognized the latter's sovereignty over the Spratlys is that this claim has no basis in fact.

At the San Francisco Conference on the peace treaty with Japan, the Soviet Union proposed that the Paracels and Spratlys be recognized as belonging to China. This proposal was rejected by an overwhelming majority of the delegates. On July 7, 1951, Tran Van Huu, head of the Bảo Đại Government's (State of Vietnam) delegation to the conference declared that the Paracels and Spratlys were part of Vietnamese territory. This declaration met with no challenge from the 51 representatives at the conference.[38]

The text of the Treaty of San Francisco listed the Spratlys as not part of the list of territories to be returned to China

Vietnam Joins the World - Google Books

Vietnam Joins the World - Google Books

In fact during this period, when Hanoi was relying heavily on the Chinese for support, the Hanoi authorities seem to have recognized the Spratlys and the Paracels as Chinese territories. Three bits of evidence for this are often cited by China.33 The first is a statement by Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Ung Van Khien to Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Li Zhimin in which the former indicated that Vietnam had recognized the Paracels and the Spratlys as Chinese territory since the days of the Song dynasty. The second is Pham Van Dong's letter dated September 14, 1958. It supported China's statement, extending its territorial waters twelve nautical miles. The statement clearly mentioned the Paracels and Spratlys by name as belonging to China. Third, in May 1965, the (North) Vietnamese Foreign Ministry criticized the United States for defining "part of China's Paracels" as a "fighting operation area."34

When victory was finally attained over the South, however, Hanoi was anxious to pick up all the pieces and claims left by the fallen regime. It acknowledged later that it had indeed previously acquiesced in China's claims to the islands but argued that times since then had changed.

At that time, Vietnam had to struggle against American intervention and aggression. . . . During this period, China regarded American imperialism as its main enemy and firmly supported the anti-American war of the Vietnamese people and was the "Vietnamese people's great rear base." China was one of the biggest aid donors to Vietnam. In the anti-American struggle, China and Vietnam became real friends. Relations between the two were "as close as lips and teeth." . . . During this period of opposing a much stronger enemy, the more Vietnam could let China fight hand in hand with Vietnam, the more advantageous for Vietnam to prevent America from using these two archipelagoes, and avoid attacks from the South China Sea [the East Sea in Vietnamese]. We have to understand the above statements in this spirit.36

With this rationale, in 1975 Vietnam asserted its claims to both the Paracels and the Spratlys and physically took possession of the six Spratly islands that the former South Vietnamese regime had occupied. In later years other islands were added.