South Vietnam in 1974 participated in a naval battle against China in the Paracel Islands. A year after the U.S. withdrawal in 1973 and a year after the fall of Saigon in 1975, South Vietnam asked for help naval and air the U.S. Navy fleet in the area but was denied. China were defeated and took the archipelago and still claims the unified Vietnam.
China Air Base in the Paracel Islands
little further south are the Spratly Islands. In this case the different islands were occupied by all countries that claim sovereignty all: Vietnam, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines.
Both Paracelsus as the Spratlys are a group of small islands which are isolated garrisons in the middle of the South China Sea. The Government of Vietnam encourages your gifts and donations of the Vietnamese people for the Tet holiday to these garrisons soldiers. They manage to, in these rocky islands, to grow their vegetables:
Vietnamese naval base in Spratly Islands
"do not wave"
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