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Vanguard Bank, because of this confrontation between China and Vietnam Sea, has once again become the focus of people's attention, Vanguard Bank is also one of the 29 islands and reefs in the South China Sea illegally occupied by Vietnam, and is also known as the "Malacca" of "Malacca" by the shipping industry
01 Vanguard Bank is one of the many islands and reefs dotted in the South China Sea on the mainland, and it is also one of the many islands and reefs in the South China Sea located at the southernmost tip of the South China Sea, this island and reef has more than 700 square kilometers, roughly 63 kilometers × 11 kilometers such a "crescent-shaped" area, the island and reef around the rich fishery resources, strategic location is obvious, Vietnam regards it as its strategic stronghold, and unprovoked Chinese fishermen operating here, seriously threatening the safety of Chinese migrants.
But Vietnam is an extremely untrustworthy country, this country backtracks, there is no way to keep its promises, an authentic country of little people, let's first understand the past history of Vietnam:
Prior to 1974, the Vietnamese government recognized the Paracels and Spratly Islands as sovereign territory of China, as evidenced by their official credentials and historical records
But nearly a year later, in January 1974, Saigon, then South Vietnam, invaded the Vinh Lok Islands and at the same time seized the islands of Ganquan and Kim and Silver by force.
Just half a year later, six islands and reefs were invaded and occupied: Hongxiu Island, Nanzi Island, Dunqien Sandbar, Jinghong Island, Nanwei Island and An Bo Sandbar, and worse, taking advantage of the time period of invasion and occupation of sandbars, taking advantage of the relatively close proximity of the Vietnamese mainland to these islands and reefs, sending troops to station for a long time, intending to form a de facto occupation.
02 Until April 1975, when Vietnam was reunified with the north and south, after reunification, Vietnam did not return the islands and reefs it had invaded to China, but directly handed over these islands and reefs occupied by South Vietnam to the unified Vietnam.
According to various data, from Vietnam's reunification in 1975 to the normalization of Sino-Vietnamese relations in 1991, Vietnam successively invaded and occupied about 20 islands and reefs in the past 16 years, so that by 1991, Vietnam had actually illegally occupied 26 islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
03 However, even though Sino-Vietnamese relations have been normalized, from 1993 to 1998, Vietnam used various time periods to invade and occupy three islands and reefs respectively, during this period, including the tense moment in the Taiwan Strait in 1996, Vietnam took advantage of this gap to seize and occupy the islands and reefs, and stepped up the stationing of troops and the construction of related auxiliary equipment on the illegally occupied islands and reefs, in an attempt to make these invaded islands form a substantial occupation, which also caused us too much trouble to recover these islands and reefs in the later period.
Vietnam has built Spratly Island, the largest of the 29 islands and reefs occupied in the South China Sea, into a command center for 29 islands and reefs in the South China Sea, in which Vietnam has stationed a total of more than 2,000 troops.
04 It is worth mentioning that Vietnam has found two huge oil fields around these islands and reefs: White Tiger Oilfield and Qinglong Oilfield, of which the Thanh Long oilfield is authorized by the Vietnamese government to the United States and Japanese companies to exploit, and the largest White Tiger oilfield he exploited himself, according to incomplete statistics, as of 2012, Vietnam has extracted a total of 100 million tons of oil and 1.5 trillion cubic meters of natural gas from the South China Sea, with direct and indirect profits of more than 30 billion US dollars (purchasing power in 2012).
In fact, Vietnam's white-eyed wolf has never had real feelings for such a neighbor of China, and from the 1979 self-defense counterattack war against Vietnam, can we see that the Vietnamese are sinister and cunning, unscrupulous, and capricious villains are exposed, whether it is the Battle of the Xisha Sea in 1974, the self-defense and counterattack against Vietnam in 1979, and the Battle of Chigua Reef in 1988, it fully shows that if there is a chance to cripple this "evil wolf" against Vietnam, he must not be allowed to have a chance to turn over , and must tear the country apart, split into so many small countries that he can no longer stir up trouble.
05 In May 2023, at the instigation of the United States and, of course, Vietnam's own insidious interests, Vietnam took the initiative to provoke an incident in Vanguard Bank, not only openly using coast guard law enforcement vessels to expel mainland fishermen in the exclusive economic zone belonging to the mainland, but also using law enforcement vessels to tow Chinese fishing boats in disregard of the safety of mainland fishermen, forcing mainland fishermen to cut off their fishing nets
Not only that, Vietnam also tried to fill in the four high-stilt platforms built on Vanguard Bank from 1989 to 1994: DK-1, DK-5, DK-11 and DK-12, and then further stationed troops on them, built navigation beacon lights, airports, and must beat him in our legal field to make him realize what to do and what not to do, and let him understand that colluding with foreign forces to stir up trouble in the South China Sea is not at all good for him. And let him spit out what he eats.
06 Finally, let's talk about the military value of Vanguard Bank, which is 1,000 kilometers from the Strait of Malacca, 1,500 kilometers from Hainan, 500 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, the capital of Vietnam, 468 kilometers from the mainland-controlled Fiery Cross Island, 900 kilometers from Singapore in the southwest and 500 kilometers from the western coastline of Malaysia in the southeast
It can be said that Vanguard Beach is stuck at the throat of the South China Sea channel, can be attacked, retreat can be defended, if there is a military base here, then all ships passing through here, whether military or non-military, are equivalent to coming and going under the nose, and it is precisely because of this that the idle Blinken of the United States will run to Vietnam, and it must be that the United States discovered the importance of the Vanguard Bank as a strategic stronghold, encouraged Vietnam to step up the construction of Vanguard Bank, secretly promised to give Vietnam support, this time Vietnam took the initiative to provoke the Vanguard Bank incident, It happened after U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Vietnam, and it cannot be said that there is no U.S. factor behind it
07 At this stage, Vietnam's construction in Vanguard Bank is not very large-scale, it is still only 4 high-footed platforms, if we can make full use of this opportunity to take Vanguard Bank, then it is equivalent to hitting a very solid nail in Malacca, our energy security lifeline, if we can further build Vanguard Bank into a large-scale military base, then its significance is no less than the US military base on Guam in the Pacific, and its military strategic value is no less than Guam
After all, Vanguard Bank is located in Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, and 80% of the world's cargo traffic passes through the Strait of Malacca, which shows that its strategic value status is extraordinary!