At noon on January 20, the mainland's southern theater announced to the outside world that the US guided-missile destroyer "Benford" broke into the mainland's territorial waters without knowing the Chinese side and without the approval of the Chinese side. The Southern Theater immediately organized warships and warplanes to monitor the US movements throughout the process and drove them away. Colonel Tian Junli, spokesman for the Southern Theater, pointed out in a righteous manner that this incident once again proved that the person who caused the security risk in the South China Sea was no one else, but the United States; the country that caused great damage to peace and stability in the South China Sea was no one else, it was the United States. The Southern Theater issued a solemn warning to the US side: immediately stop similar provocative activities, otherwise it will lead to "serious consequences of unexpected incidents." Colonel Tian Junli also said that the troops in the southern theater will always maintain a high degree of vigilance and resolutely defend national sovereignty and stability in the South China Sea.
Although the United States has repeatedly flaunted its might in the South China Sea, the vast majority of its activities have taken place in the international waters of the South China Sea. The US destroyer "Benford" directly entered the Chinese territorial waters located in the Paracel Islands, and the nature of this act is completely different from the previous dance of knives and guns in international waters, and in the strict sense, the behavior of the US military can already be regarded as aggression. The Paracel Islands have been the territory of the mainland since ancient times, and there has never been a territorial dispute. In 610 AD, the sixth year of the Sui Dynasty, the Sui Emperor Yang Guang established Linzhen Commandery to govern the islands in the South China Sea; in the first year of Zhenguan, that is, in 627 AD, Emperor Taizong of Tang li Shimin issued an edict to establish the Yazhou Governorate, which clearly included the Xisha Islands in China's territory. It can be seen from this that the Paracel Islands have been Chinese territory since ancient times, and there is no dispute. In the 1970s, Vietnam illegally occupied the Paracel Islands, but was driven away by the People's Liberation Army. The United States realized that the Sino-Vietnamese territorial dispute could be used for its own purposes, so it disregarded historical and legal facts, publicly denied China's sovereignty over the Paracel Islands, and claimed that the waters near the Paracel Islands were not China's territorial waters, but "international waters."
For a long time, US warships and planes have frequently intruded into the vicinity of the Paracel Islands, and even tried to enter China's territorial waters within 12 nautical miles several times. On July 2, 2017, the U.S. Navy dispatched the destroyer "Statham" to forcibly break into the Chinese territorial waters affiliated with Zhongjian Island in the Paracel Islands, which was resolutely expelled by the ships of our southern theater; on May 27, 2018, the U.S. Navy repeated the same trick, dispatching two warships, the "Higgins" and "Antittan" to form a fleet, and at the same time intruding into the Chinese territorial waters of the Paracel Islands, it was also driven away by the mainland's southern theater organized ships; on August 27, 2020, the US guided-missile destroyer "Mastin" On May 18 last year, the USS Alibberk-class destroyer Wilbur broke into China's territorial waters of the Paracel Islands without permission from the Chinese Government, and two days later, without the permission of the Chinese Government, the USS Wilbur. It can be said that almost every year the United States sends warships to provoke in the territorial waters of the Mainland Paracel Islands, and the behavior of the United States has even become a "tradition". In the face of the provocation of the US side, the Chinese the navy and air force of the People's Liberation Army gave a resolute resistance!
Although the United States has always boasted that it wants to "maintain the stability of the situation in the South China Sea," what it has done is to undermine the situation of stability and peace in the South China Sea. The US military's re-invasion of the Paracel Islands is likely to be a military effort to help it "save" Southeast Asian countries. We know that last year, the United States sent senior officials such as Secretary of Defense Austin, Vice President Harris, and Secretary of State Blinken to visit Southeast Asian countries, and President Biden also attended the ASEAN summit. The United States will not "give nothing to be attentive", and the Main Reason why the United States attaches so much importance to Southeast Asia is that it hopes to win over Southeast Asian countries to jointly encircle China. However, judging from the public news, a series of diplomatic actions taken by the United States in Southeast Asia last year have failed to achieve the desired results, and many Southeast Asian countries have assured China that they will not conclude treaties against China with other countries and will not join organizations that oppose China. And this kind of thinking naturally stimulated the US military to carry out military adventures in the South China Sea.
However, this childish provocative behavior of the United States is unlikely to have its ideal effect, and in 2016, the South American Navy fled in the military confrontation in the South China Sea, which means that the United States has recognized in disguise that China has absolute military superiority in the South China Sea, and the image maintained by the United States for a long time has also collapsed. In recent years, the Chinese Navy is developing at a "dumpling-like" speed, and in 2021, the Chinese Navy launched a total of 170,000 tons of ships, far faster than the US Navy. It can be said that now that any country knows that it is impossible for the US Navy to defeat the PLA in the South China Sea, it is completely impossible for the United States to hope to save its "reputation" through such a small military adventure.
In the face of frequent provocative acts by the United States, many enthusiastic netizens have put forward very radical suggestions. However, there is an old saying on the mainland: the big husband can bend and stretch, and at present, China's comprehensive national strength is still inferior to that of the United States, and there are some problems that need to be solved urgently at home, and the consequences of taking decisive measures against US warships are relatively uncontrollable. At this critical juncture, all Chinese people should trust the judgment of the party and the government, and believe that the PLA has the determination and ability to stop all foreign aggression.