South China Sea: What Will US, China Confrontation Lead to?

SputnikNews.com
28.10.2015

The US deployed the USS Lassen warship close to the artificial islands in the Spratly archipelago and it apparently plans to send more despite a clear warning from Beijing, which claims sovereignty over the area.

We are witnessing a new phase of US-China confrontation in the region, Vietnamese historian Nguyen Manh Ha told Sputnik Vietnam.

“The US sent the destroyer to the Tomahawk to see the reaction of Beijing. The US considers these international waters but China announced its own territorial claim around the artificial islands. China’s first reaction was controlled. But let’s see what happens next, maybe a week later, when the United States will continue to patrol the area. I think there will be a change in the resolution of the territorial disputes in the South China Sea complicating the situation in the region and it is connected with the manifestation of the return of the United States to Asia.”

Another Vietnamese expert Colonel Le Tkhe Mau believes that the territorial disputes in the South China Sea are one of the most complicated international problems of our time which can be solved only by political means.

>“Vietnam will support the actions of the United States and any other country, such as Japan, which will focus on the maintenance of peace and cooperation of the countries in the region. It should be noted that when talking about the freedom of navigation, Americans are protecting their own strategic interests in the Southeast Asia region. An example is the recently signed agreement on the TTP. Japan and Vietnam are two countries in East and Southeast Asia, which have territorial disputes with China. Thus, the US is trying to consolidate its power and influence in the countries of the region.”

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