Danger signals, the Vietnamese are wildly reclaiming islands in the South China Sea, expanding and building over 8.5 square kilometers of land area on 11 reefs and islands. This means that the difficulty of using force to recover these occupied islands in the South China Sea will greatly increase in the future. Moreover, the Vietnamese have no intention of stopping, and they continue to expand the occupied islands.
This mainly blames the Dutch. A Dutch company sold five cutter suction dredgers to Vietnam and transferred the construction technology. This greatly accelerated the Vietnamese ability and speed to reclaim islands.
After obtaining dredgers from Western companies, the Vietnamese changed their strategy, and started to expand the islands recklessly. They have built runways on at least five occupied islands. The illegally reclaimed islands by the Vietnamese have increased significantly in size, which may increase the population on the islands, leading to a more consolidated occupation. This is a warning for us.
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