South china sea war 2012 02 29

This picture taken by Vietnam News Agency and released on June 14, 2011 shows Vietnamese sailors training with a 12.7 mm machine gun on Phan Vinh Island in the Spratly archipelago. Vietnam put on a show of military strength in the tense South China Sea that risked the ire of Beijing in the face of a deepening maritime rift with its powerful neighbour.