Title:

 SLOW AND STEADY: VIETNAM’S SPRATLY UPGRADES

Author:

AMTI

Source:

AMTI

Date:

 April 8, 2019

Description:

Vietnam continues to quietly upgrade its facilities in the Spratly Islands, though apparently without facing the same reaction from China’s maritime militia forces as the Philippines recently has. Vietnam occupies 49 outposts spread across 27 features in the vicinity of the Spratly Islands. Of those 27 features, only 10 can be called islets while the rest are mostly underwater reefs and banks.