How is Vietnam ensuring their rights in the spratleys with China muscling their way in?
_ We are building artificial islands just like the Chinese are doing in Spratly archipelago. AFAIK, at least two artificial islands in Spratly archipelago will build airbase that can received aircraft such as Su-30MK2, C-130J, ..
https://amti.csis.org/how-many-runways-is-vietnam-building-in-the-spratly-islands/
We are building runways on
Barque Canada Reef (Vietnamese: đảo Thuyền Chài)
_ From the experience of Russian full-scale invaded Ukraine, our govt Increasing purchases of weapons and technology from various countries. You can see Vietnam bought Korean K-9 155mm, American C-130J, F-16 (will replace Mig-21/Sukhoi-22), Russian Yak-130, so we can produce small arms, EASA radar, UCAV, guided rocket , IFV ( XCB-01), Electronic warfare system, ...You can hardly defeat a country that can produce many advanced weapons so quickly.
_ We are building fleet of maritime militia ships . From the looks of it, you can just see that they are ordinary fishing boats. But all sailors on board are trained in the use of small arms such as RPG-7, SPG-9, 12.7mm machine guns, ...
