Vietnamese Land Reclamation in SCS

[BoQ77]

The birth of this girl in Spratly island was a telemedicine.
For your information, Lockheed Martin launched Vinasat-1 , Vinasat-2 GSO satellites and transfered to Vietnam

Cellular services are available in Spratly island on 2006.
Now TV and internet services all available

This light house was built in 1993 and one of nine light houses of Vietnam in Spratly islands.

 

[BoQ77]

Vietnam’s lighthouse on Spratly Islands before 1945.

 

[S10]

doesn't look like they are meant for military use in contrast to China reclamation

Sorry I can't hear you over the sound of double standards.

 

[Daniel808]

I start to feel pity for these children who will have to look up to the Chinese day and night. Do they watch the Chinese TV programs?

LOL
Those Viets must be very ENVY with China

 

[Zhang Fan]

you gotta admit vietnamese army looks so daaaaaarn like the PLA in 80s,identical!

 

[Penguin]

With all the effort focused on China's island building, it's easy to overlook Vietnam's own reclamation program. They have been enlarging the reefs and islands they control for years, with quiet approval from the West. There is absolutely no reason to pay attention to Americans' selective concerns.

As of now, almost everyone involved in the SCS dispute is doing the same thing to increase control.

BS: the same applies to their land reclamation as to the chinese land reclamation. Plus, there still it the difference between turning a reef into an artificial island and enlarging a real island. In the case of the former, the creation of an artificial island does not mean sovereignty is expanded.

Question: when comparing the time lapsed between the pictures, is land reclamation proceeding at a pace similar to that of chinese land reclamation?
Question: when comparing the land area created, is land reclamation proceeding on a similar scale as the of the chinese land reclamation?
Question: when comparing the methods used, is land reclamation more or less environmentally destructive than that of chinese land reclamatino?

acres reclaimed / time lapsed / damage to the ecosystem

China has sought to deflect criticism of its island building in the South China Sea by accusing other claimants, especially Vietnam, of doing the same. AMTI has examined each of the islets and reefs Vietnam occupies in the Spratly Islands and found evidence of reclamation at 10 of them. The images below suggest Vietnam has created just over 120 acres of new land in the South China Sea, mostly at Spratly Island, Southwest Cay, Sin Cowe Island, and West Reef. The majority of this work has occurred in the last two years. By comparison, China has created almost 3,000 acres of new land at the seven features it occupies in the Spratly Islands. Vietnam’s work has not only been much smaller, but far less environmentally destructive, as it has not involved large-scale dredging of the reefs on which Hanoi’s outposts sit. It has also mostly (but not always) involved expanding pre-existing islets rather than creating new land at submerged features. Nonetheless, Vietnam has ignored calls, including by U.S. officials, to halt its island-building in order to support a consensus against the practice.

http://amti.csis.org/vietnams-island-building/

http://amti.csis.org/island-tracker/

ps: is this a cn circle jerk session? if so, sorry for interrupting.

 

[BoQ77]

China has none of real island in Spratly, Vietnam has SIX, and all land reclamation proceeded in them.
Means they're quite big areas above water even at any tide levels before land reclamation,
This in contrary with making artificial islands.

BS: the same applies to their land reclamation as to the chinese land reclamation. Plus, there still it the difference between turning a reef into an artificial island and enlarging a real island. In the case of the former, the creation of an artificial island does not mean sovereignty is expanded.

Question: when comparing the time lapsed between the pictures, is land reclamation proceeding at a pace similar to that of chinese land reclamation?
Question: when comparing the land area created, is land reclamation proceeding on a similar scale as the of the chinese land reclamation?
Question: when comparing the methods used, is land reclamation more or less environmentally destructive than that of chinese land reclamatino?

acres reclaimed / time lapsed / damage to the ecosystem



http://amti.csis.org/vietnams-island-building/

http://amti.csis.org/island-tracker/

ps: is this a cn circle jerk session? if so, sorry for interrupting.

 

[yugocrosrb95]

Keep vasting money on artificial islands China.