PHOTOS: Vietnamese models get patriotic, Chinese netizens get conflicted (and creepy)

By Ryan Kilpatrick, July 16, 2014

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A recent photoshoot of Vietnamese models posing in patriotic outfits — such as traditional ao dai dresses emblazoned with the national flag and maritime maps staking the country's claims to the Spratlys and Paracels — is making China's netizens feel… well, conflicted.

The country's mostly young, male and rather frustrated (gender imbalance much?) web users have been simultaneously admiring the ladies while also maligning their country, in ways that'll make the reader feel conflicted as well: amused, indignant and deeply worried all at once...

 

She dears to wear China's territory on her body? Hehe, I'll take her down to the ground myself.

I wanna start drilling into her South Sea... like if you know what I mean!

Drill deep, drill wide, get lots of oil!

This is a signal to the men of China, open fire at me!

Five yellow stars on red, perfect. If you want to join China so bad you should just say so, we'll let you in under "one country, twp systems." Investment will increase by twentyfold within one year.

What are you talking about, two systems? They're socialists too, we can just set up Annam [name of northern Vietnam when it was a Chinese imperial subject] province and call them the Viet minority people.

You're both wrong. It should be "one country, two systems," but monkeys don't deserve socialism. Let's institute slavery in Vietnam.

Liberate Vietnam!

They're just enticing us to start drilling...

Looks like there aren't enough men over there, let's have at it.

The 57th nationality [of China]!

haaaa

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