As we all know, aircraft carriers are a weapon for the United States to expand abroad, and in most hot spots in the world, American aircraft carriers can be seen running amok. From World War II, to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, to the Gulf War, aircraft carriers became symbols of America's military might. In 1996, the United States also sent aircraft carriers into the Taiwan Strait illegally to grossly interfere in China's internal affairs. In recent years, the United States has been constantly hyping up the so-called issue of free navigation in the South China Sea, and aircraft carriers are naturally indispensable to cause trouble in the South China Sea.
According to the "South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness" news, the US Navy's CARL Vinson aircraft carrier strike group entered the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca on October 24, which is the ninth time that a US aircraft carrier has entered the South China Sea since 2021, posing a huge challenge to regional peace and becoming the biggest destabilizing factor in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
The frequent entry of US aircraft carriers into the South China Sea has nothing to do with the so-called "freedom of navigation" they preach. Since the topic has been hyped up, so far, no news has been heard that any ships have been blocked from navigating freely here. The South China Sea is one of the busiest seas for international shipping, with countless ships coming and going every day, and there has never been a problem of being unable to sail for any reason.
What's more, even in order to show the so-called freedom of navigation, the United States does not need to make such a big fuss, and the first move is an aircraft carrier battle group, which obviously has a ulterior motive. First of all, the purpose of the United States is to "support" some countries around the South China Sea. There are island disputes between China and Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and other countries around the South China Sea, and there are also many contradictions in fishery resources and submarine oil and gas resources.
There has always been a strong anti-China force within these countries, and once they have the explicit support of external forces, they will appear in vain, influence their own China policy, and eventually lead to the deterioration of the situation in the South China Sea. The frequent appearance of US aircraft carriers in the South China Sea has made these people more confident.
Judging from the current situation, the situation in the South China Sea is generally stable. Even if the neighboring countries in the South China Sea have disputes over the ownership of islands and reefs with China, they have not participated in the so-called free navigation operations in the South China Sea provoked by the United States, and have maintained a considerable degree of restraint. Because they have very close economic and trade relations with China, there has been a phenomenon in the South China Sea in which countries in the region have no interest and countries outside the region are shouting hard.
But after all, the United States is the world's number one power, and it has been waving its sword for several years, and it is impossible without a little effect. According to the news of the South China Sea Strategic Situational Awareness Platform on the 25th, Vietnam recently began reclamation and land reclamation projects again on the illegally occupied Nansha LifeLong Reef, and a large number of excavators, transport ships, engineering ships and barge docks appeared in its nearby waters.
Large-scale land reclamation will make Vietnam's presence on islands and reefs in the South China Sea more stable, and will increase his ability to harass Chinese fishermen in the South China Sea. Creating incidents around China is itself one of the long-term U.S. strategies toward China, and Vietnam is one of his partners. In the dispute over islands and reefs in the South China Sea, Vietnam occupies the most Chinese islands and reefs, and its military strength is also the strongest.
In 2014, China began to reclaim land on the Nansha islands and reefs on a large scale, and Vietnam also carried out similar actions on the Chinese islands and reefs it illegally occupied, although it could not be compared with China in scale and speed, and some of the land he created was even blown away by the typhoon, but it also showed his determination to occupy Chinese islands and reefs for a long time.
In the two years when the confrontation with China was most intense, the outside world even spread the news that the US military was stationed in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam, which made the situation in the South China Sea tense up in an instant. After a few years of silence, Vietnam suddenly began to fight the idea of the South China Sea, which must be fueled by the United States.
In addition, the movements in the Philippines are also worth paying attention to. During Duterte's five years in power, the island and reef disputes between China and the Philippines have basically disappeared, the economic and trade relations between the two countries have continued to develop healthily, and the country that once concocted the "South China Sea Arbitration Case" has become one of the southeast Asian countries with the friendliest relations with China.
But now that Duterte is leaving office, his favorite successor is not sure of winning the Philippine presidency, and the new leader's attitude toward China policy is still unknown. If it is a figure like Aquino III, then Sino-Philippine relations will encounter twists and turns, and there will be another incident in the South China Sea, and all this is exactly what the United States hopes to see.
It can be said that China is the only heavyweight opponent that the United States can find in the world at present, so no matter what China does and what attitude it adopts, the United States will not abandon its policy of containment of China, which is the instinctive reaction of the current world boss when facing a strong challenger.
In the next period of time, as China's national strength continues to increase and the united States' strength declines relatively, he will make more small moves around China and create more obstacles. At this time, there are still illusions about the United States, which is to make a historic mistake. Chinese sages once said that Sino-US relations are not good enough, nor bad are bad.
All China has to do is keep accumulating its own strength. The 2014 wave of vigorous land reclamation operations allowed China to establish a solid sea and air base and fishery production center in the South China Sea, firmly guarding the throat of the South China Sea. Now the provocations of the United States and Vietnam are also an opportunity, as long as the power is properly used, in the future, the United States will come back to the South China Sea, it will be deployed by China on the islands and reefs of the South China Sea, and the South China Sea fleet cruising nearby.