BREAKING: Vietnam ready for combat in South China Sea as naval ships swarm region

China’s muscling in with missile boats. The Philippines is sending over aircraft. Now another play has laid a stake in the South China Sea.

China’s muscling in with missile boats. The Philippines is sending over aircraft. But another player is deploying its military to stake a claim on the South China Sea – Vietnam.

As Beijing’s fishing “militia” moved in on the Spratly Islands and Manila sent reconnaissance aircraft to observe, Hanoi had one of its warships conduct “combat drills” nearby.

The modern anti-submarine frigate Quang Trung and its on-board helicopter exercised its capabilities in plain view of heavily militarised Chinese installations.

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