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US to balance China in South China Sea through its neighbors


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Possible arms sales to Vietnam


In the past, domestic American political concerns have impeded U.S. arms sales to Vietnam. These have included painful memories of the Vietnam War, the Vietnamese government’s mistreatment of Hmong and Degar minorities and suppression of political dissent, and the Vietnamese-American community’s strong hostility towards the ruling Vietnamese Communist Party.

Foreign policy considerations have added additional obstacles. These have included concerns about harming U.S. relations with more traditional U.S. Southeast Asian allies, especially Singapore and Thailand. Both countries have been designated non-NATO major allies and Thailand fought extensive border skirmishes on the Cambodian border with Vietnam in the 1980s. Chinese officials would also presumably object to the U.S. transfer of many lethal weapons systems to Vietnam, and might retaliate by sending more weapons to regimes hostile to the United States.


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Vietnam possesses sizeable quantities of U.S.-origin weapons captured during the civil war. These include F-5 Tiger fighters, OV-10 Bronco attack planes, C-130 Hercules Transports, UH-1 Huey helicopters, M113 APCs and M-48 tanks. Most of these platforms have been retired due to age and lack of maintenance and spare parts, but U.S.-made transport planes, helicopters and armored personnel carriers still serve in the VPA and could be upgraded by Americans to enhance their safety, range, payload, avionics, and engines for fuel efficiency.

The VPN has established re-supplying its island garrisons as a high priority, which suggests that Vietnam might be interested in decommissioned American amphibious warships stripped of offensive armament. The United States has sold Newport class Tank Landing Ships to Australia, Chile, Mexico, Morocco, Spain and Taiwan. The ships have ramps for offloading cargo in shallow waters, such as those in the Spratly Islands littoral. Ex-USN Anchorage Landing Ship Dock and Austin class Landing Platform Docks have been sold respectively to Taiwan and India. Compared to the Tank Landing Ships, these have increased capacities for supporting helicopter operations and would enhance Vietnam’s marine search and rescue capabilities.

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Vietnam might also want to acquire U.S. transport helicopters. American S-70 Seahawks and UH-60 Blackhawks are attractive in that, in addition to carrying loads in excess of four tons, they can be optimized for marine environments, high altitudes, and night-time operations. Of additional interest are CH-47 Chinook heavy helicopters, which could be used both for airmobile operations and to re-supply distant mountain outposts near the Chinese border. The C-130J Super Hercules and C-27A Spartan transport planes would be ideal for Vietnam’s air transport needs. The two planes can carry 20 and 11 ton payloads, respectively, and provide short take off capabilities from rugged airstrips, thus having useful humanitarian applications for delivering relief in the aftermath of typhoons and other natural disasters.

Previous Vietnamese attempts to produce domestically made unmanned aerial vehicles with Israeli help have been unsuccessful. The MQ-1 Predator and tactical level RQ-7 Shadow would provide long endurance, low observable, and cost effective surveillance capabilities of Vietnam’s extensive land and marine boundaries.

UAVs would also help coordinate land and naval maneuvers. Vietnam could also profitably acquire AEW&C aircraft such as the E-2T Hawkeye, which would improve battlefield data processing, radar coverage, and communications. Such a move to acquire AEW&C capabilities would help Vietnam match the Chinese KJ-2000 and KJ-200 aircraft, Singapore’s Phalcon Gulfstream, and Thailand’s Erieye Saab 340.

Modernization of the VPA also requires the renovation of the VPA’s communications and control systems.

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Disputed Sea Waters

If American-Vietnamese ties were to improve significantly, Vietnam could have opportunities to purchase Link 11 and 16 equivalent radios and communication datalinks like MIDS/LVT-1 for increasing information flow and security at both the strategic and tactical level . The increasing situational awareness and real-time decision-making capabilities from digitalized command systems would allow Vietnam to integrate air, land, and sea operations better.


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Philippines to file protest to U.N. against Chinese "incursions"


Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said Thursday the Philippines is set to file a protest to the United Nations against China for “a series of incursions into its territory.”

Aquino said China intruded into the Philippine territorial waters in the South China Sea at least six
or seven times since Feb. 25, including the placement of steel posts and a buoy near the Amy Douglas Bank last month.

"We are completing all the necessary data and then we will present it to them (China) and then file it with the appropriate body which is the U.N.," Aquino said after returning from an overnight visit to Brunei.

Aquino also said he will take up the “incursions” when he visits China, expected later this year.

"At the end of the day, I am going there (Beijing)." Aquino said. "I will talk to them. (Ask them) how do we find a solution to this position?"

Aquino stressed the need to be "very judicious in how we deal with them" since if either parties insist at the outset that "we are the ones in the right" there will be no dialogue that could resolve the issue.



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He said the Philippines framework for territory is the U.N. Convention of the Law of the Sea while China is observing the so-called 9-dash line, which does not comply with the law of the sea.

"But if we keep saying, you're illegal, there should be some background. If they lose face, how will we compromise? There will be no more interest. There is no point in having a standoff...we have resources, we will exploit it for the benefit of the people," he said.

The Philippine defense department summoned the charge d'affaires of the Chinese Embassy in Manila on Tuesday to explain the presence of a Chinese marine surveillance ship and two missile boats near the Amy Douglas Bank on May 21 and 24.

The Philippine military said the boats brought in steel posts and a buoy in an apparent bid to erect a structure on the Bank that Manila says is well within Philippine territory.

The alleged incursion took place while China's Defense Minister Liang Guanglie was in Manila to meet Aquino and defense and military officials.
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