This is a

This is CBS In The World. I'm John Battle with Gordon Chang at Gordon G Chang and we're very pleased to welcome James Finel

our colleague who helps us in matters of intelligence in the Western Pacific, East Asia.

James is author of, co-author of Embracing Communist China America's greatest strategic failure. He's also a government fellow. in looking at the threat matrix represented by the People's Liberation Army Navy.

We move now to an item that is extremely promising about the world you never thought you'd see.

This is Vietnam, the communist state of Vietnam,

working with the Philippines in a way that would have been unimaginable in my youth.

1969 if you wrote this story would have regarded you as useless.

You don't understand how the world works. The headline in Reuters, Vietnam Philippines

sealed deals on South China Sea security. The President of the Philippines, Mr. Marcos, and the prime minister of Vietnam, meeting

to talk about cooperating at their Coast Guard level in order to provide security in the South China

Sea that they both border.

The Prime Minister of Vietnam, I now learn for the first time, fam Min Chin.

Jim, a very good day to you.

Your time in the Navy, did anybody come up with this scenario?

Vietnam and the Philippines working together to help the US and Japan fend off the aggression of the PLA Navy.

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John and Gordon and no.

This is a new territory. John and Gordon know.

This is a, we're in new territory,

but it is territory that demonstrates something

that I think people haven't seen before

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