United States Navy to lift the restrictions to help Vietnam strengthen US media: Dissatisfied Chines.

United States Navy media said the United States will legalize the sales to maritime security in order to protect their decisions, or balanced regional powers and the United States industry will have a significant impact.

United States Navy and Vietnam Defense Minister

U.S. "Defense News" magazine website on October 4, entitled "For the new ruling or further open the exit door," the report said, when the move comes as China's increasingly aggressive actions in the South China Sea, and is also the first time since the Vietnam War the United States lifting the restrictions on arms sales to Vietnam.

Vietnam arms sales will be limited to coastal areas. However, this is a vague word, what the United States the discretion to consider selling the equipment to the Vietnamese army.

U.S. State Department officials at a briefing on October 2, said the move aims to safeguard maritime security in Vietnam, while avoiding giving its equipment can be used for human rights violations.

A United States official said: "The lifting of the ban on arms sales does not mean that the more we will provide all assistance to Vietnam weapons kind of gate wide open, I do not want people feeling."

United States State Department said that the decision to improve the US-Vietnam bilateral relations based is not to fight against China. "This is not anti-China initiatives," another official said, "is not what is necessary to warn China thing, this is in fact what we have been talking, to help countries build the capacity of maritime initiatives it."

Reported that the US-Vietnam relationship over the years is indeed getting warmer, warming relations between the two countries at the time Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton after the 2010 trip to Hanoi is particularly evident. State Department officials also mentioned in particular the improvement of human rights in Vietnam's internal affairs.

Reported that, however undeniable that China increasingly aggressive in the region, such as the summer aggressive waters China claims sovereignty over oil drilling platform setup in Vietnam and intense.

With the Beijing final thing to remove the drilling platform and gave up. However, deputy director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the issue of research projects in Southeast Asia Sumi Castro Murray Hibbert said the incident reminded the north of Vietnam need to beware of this neighborhood.

Hibbert said: "Many countries in the region and, like Vietnam, trying to balance relations with China and the United States, China is Vietnam's largest trading partner which provides electricity to northern Vietnam, providing parts for Vietnamese exports, so the Vietnamese only. can stop there. way to be very cautious in Vietnam. "

Shanghai Jiaotong University's Zhuang Jianzhong (sound) warned that China is likely to see it as its southern neighbors armed deeply unhappy. "This is for the Chinese military conducted a pre-deployment, we decided on this rather unpleasant," Zhuang said, "We will not overreact, because there is no direct conflict between China and Vietnam, but we might Obama in November this year in Beijing Discussion on the matter at the APEC meeting. "

Hibbert also thinks that this may make Beijing unhappy, but is unlikely to cause outrage. Other countries in the region this decision will not make a fuss.

"I think most countries, especially in countries other claims sovereignty over the South China Sea, a move seen as merely will increase the strength of the Vietnamese Navy weakness," Hibbert said.

State Department officials said the definition of maritime security may include the aircraft. Teal Group's Richard Aboulafia said the desire for increased profits through export industry for the United States, Vietnam is a gold mine.

"In the future, Vietnam will become a major market seems American defense equipment, they have been moving in this direction for several years," Aboulafia said, "Once again, Beijing served as a United States diplomatic, military cooperation and arms sales to top stimulating factor. "

United States Navy to lift the restrictions to help Vietnam strengthen US media: Dissatisfied Chines
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