I didn't look into pre-provider details, just wanted to say it's not surprising to see Mainland China coordinates appearing weird, nor does it imply a critical Chinese advantage. I can say a bit about what likely happens with Google Maps though. iirc it does not directly operate in Mainland China, so it likely buys data from some Chinese map data provider. This is pretty standard. Gathering map data is not trivial, especially in Mainland China. Service providers that directly have a presence there buy data, too. And such a provider is legally required to only provide obfuscated data.
i dont think it can be transferred without people transferred unless China developed its own machines. It is like Civil turbo fan engines. easy to make few thousand hours Civil engines but extremely hard to make it to 100,000 hours with much more uptime on wings. it need decades of experience to make break down free product. and engine is mass produced product unlike these machines.
It's honestly pretty embarassing he got as far as he did. He was clearly untrained and thought that the Viets would be too mellow to stop him, with tech that was too poor to track him. He was right, unfortunately, on the first count. From the very beginning where he completely failed to knock out the guard with a barrage of head strikes using a weapon but moved on to the robbery anyway (and to be fair, the guard acted equally incompetently after getting up) it was clear that all it would take to stop this guy was one dude tackling or holding onto him, but it didn't happen. He got away until they tracked him by video.
Their equipment seems like worse than China's 1999 parade
Vietnam has nothing in terms of equipment and pretty much zero air power. None of the SEA countries have much in terms of equipment. The only real respectable forces near China are Japan, SK, India and Pakistan. Everyone else will be defeated like Desert Storm.