In recent years, Western countries led by the United States have been harassing the mainland near the South China Sea under the guise of so-called "freedom of navigation" and want to provoke disputes in the South China Sea by vigorously pursuing "maritime hegemony" and thus exerting pressure on China. Nowadays, the United States has opened a number of aircraft carrier battle groups of the US Navy to the waters around the South China Sea on the mainland with great fanfare, which has directly aroused widespread concern from all walks of life.
Just on January 20, the South China Sea once again welcomed uninvited guests. According to the Global Network, Plaster Tian Junli, spokesman for the Southern Theater of the People's Liberation Army, took the lead in disclosing that on January 20, the US guided-missile destroyer "Benford" illegally broke into China's Xisha territorial waters and internal waters without the approval of the Chinese government. Chinese the Southern Theater of the People's Liberation Army organized naval and air forces to track and monitor the US warships and warn them to drive them away.
Tian Junli said that the US act of seriously violating China's sovereignty and security is another ironclad proof that it has vigorously pursued navigation hegemony and created militarization in the South China Sea. We solemnly demand that the US side immediately stop such provocative acts, otherwise it will bear the serious consequences of the unexpected incidents caused by them. Theater troops have always maintained a high state of alert and taken resolute action to safeguard national sovereignty and peace and stability in the South China Sea.
On the evening of the same day, Wu Qian, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, also made relevant remarks on the us warship's unauthorized intrusion into China's Xisha territorial waters. According to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone, the Chinese government promulgated the baseline of the territorial sea of the Paracel Islands in 1996 and made clear provisions on matters related to the entry of foreign warships into China's territorial waters.
Wu Qian stressed that such an act by the US side is not at all the "freedom of navigation" it claims, but a serious provocation that violates China's sovereignty and endangers peace and stability in the South China Sea. China demands that the US side have a clear understanding of the situation and stop provocations. China's territorial waters do not allow US warships to run amok. The Chinese armed forces will take all necessary measures to deal with all threats and provocations, resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and security, and firmly safeguard regional peace and stability.
The Southern Theater and the Ministry of National Defense successively issued information in the form of "talks," that is, while stating the position of the PLA, they also severely condemned the provocative acts of the US military. The two major departments of the People's Liberation Army simultaneously condemned the US military's actions, and the harshness of the wording was rare in recent years.
In fact, this is not the first time that a US warship has invaded the waters of the Mainland's Paracel Islands. As early as May and July last year, U.S. warships broke into the south China Sea. On the one hand, the US military has sent destroyers this time because the US military has long liked to stir up trouble in the waters of the South China Sea and engage in this so-called "freedom of navigation" to show its sense of existence. In addition, it is also hoped that in this way, we will test the deployment and response capabilities of our army in the waters of the South China Sea.
Especially on the day that the US warship entered the territorial waters of the mainland, it was also the first anniversary of Biden's becoming the president of the United States, and Biden also held a press conference for the first anniversary of the white house. After all, in this year, the United States has not less than to pursue and intercept China in all aspects, this time on the occasion of biden's first anniversary, while showing the world his "great achievements" in governing the country, it also wants to recreate its own depleting support.
On the other hand, China is about to usher in the annual Lunar New Year and the Beijing Winter Olympics, which is also a happy event and grand event that the Chinese government and people have been looking forward to, and naturally does not want someone to suddenly run out and stir up trouble when their own family is "doing a happy event".
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However, the United States prefers to pick such a major Chinese festival day, and stage a "surprise appearance" self-directed self-directed performance around China, not only carrying out special provocative acts against China, but also being complacent about its so-called "maritime hegemony.". Especially now that it is the beginning of the new year, the US military also wants to borrow warships to break into the territorial waters again, to give China a "dismount", it seems that only by letting the Chinese side add blockage, the United States can spend the new year.
Li Haidong, a professor at the China Foreign Affairs University, said in an interview with the Global Times that since Biden came to power, the United States has repeatedly dispatched military aircraft, warships, and submarines, often running to the South China Sea to provoke, aggravating the escalation of the situation in the region. In its next term, it will not weaken the US military presence in the South China Sea. At the same time, the United States will also take the opportunity to draw together neighboring countries that have disputes in the South China Sea to confront China. "This shows that the construction of the US security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region is based on creating crises and separatist turmoil in the region, so the United States will certainly brush up its presence in the South China Sea through frequent military operations."
At present, the gathering of three aircraft carriers and two amphibious assault ships of the US Navy in the waters near the South China Sea, as well as the dispatch of guided missile destroyers to break into the mainland's Paracel territorial waters, on the surface, it seems that the US military is relying on its strong military strength to deter China in the Asia-Pacific region, so that other countries mistakenly believe that the United States is going to take action against China.
This is not the case. After all, China and the United States are both nuclear powers, and whether the two sides "go to war" or not will have a serious impact on each other, and no one will be able to gain benefits. The US side only took advantage of the handover of the surface battle group to create a powerful illusion, and in fact could not support such a large-scale maritime operation in the short term. In doing so, China is not afraid of the United States, but is preventing the two sides from fighting each other, leading to the further expansion of the situation and causing military conflicts. Therefore, they will adopt the method of warning and expulsion to safeguard their own sovereignty.
Zhang Xuefeng, a Chinese military expert, said that the US military will not maintain this state for too long, and the current temporary assembly is only in the process of changing the defense of the US warships, and such a temporary scene will appear, not to carry out military operations against China. After the "handover" of these warships is over, they will naturally return to their own places. Although it is not an act of war, this action also shows that the United States has not relaxed its conventional forces in the Asia-Pacific region, after all, this is also a long-term military oppression policy of the US military against China.
In fact, this futile provocative act of the US military is purely an action of consuming its own military resources, which not only cannot prevent China's rapid rise, but also will not affect China's national defense construction, but will only consume the United States' own national strength and resources.
In today's United States, under the leadership of Biden, there are many crises, and the problem of domestic social division is becoming increasingly serious, in order to transfer the domestic contradictions and the crisis of governance, Biden has once again set his sights on the South China Sea and tried to do things around China.
However, Biden's little abacus is useless no matter how it "crackles", but should focus on domestic issues in the United States, see how to control the new crown epidemic that has plagued Americans for many years, and then think about what to do with the midterm elections that he is about to face!