Today's China is unprecedentedly powerful, not every country is qualified to provoke, especially on issues involving sovereignty and territorial integrity, the mainland does not allow anyone to provoke, otherwise what awaits them will inevitably be a strong counterattack from the mainland.
For a long time, China was in a critical stage of development, in the face of outsiders invading the mainland's territory and territorial waters, it could only choose to be patient, of course, this does not mean that China will not fight back, but under the gap in weapons and equipment, in the process of confrontation between the two sides, the mainland always falls into the inferior position.
In 2001, a matter of great indignation and anguish occurred over the South China Sea; a US military plane broke into the airspace over the South China Sea on the mainland; after discovering the target, the Chinese air defense command repeatedly warned the US EP-3 reconnaissance plane to leave immediately and not to continue to enter the airspace under the jurisdiction of the mainland.
The two sides carried out a chase battle in the air, which lasted for a long time, during the chase between the two sides, the US military plane suddenly killed a rifle, turned its head and crashed into the J-8II fighter piloted by Wang Wei, and as a result, Wang Wei failed to reflect in time to dodge, which eventually led to the tail position of the fighter being damaged by the propeller of the US military aircraft and falling, and in the process of the plane falling, Wang Wei chose to jump out of the plane to escape, although he successfully escaped from the plane, but finally failed to find his tracks and was confirmed as a sacrifice.
When Wang Wei crashed, his comrade-in-arms Zhao Yu saw the whole process, why didn't he help shoot down the US military plane at that time? Military orders are like mountains, every soldier can not act without authorization when performing the task, must obey the orders of the superiors, if you want to take further action, you must get the consent of the ground command center, at that time Zhao Yu issued a request to the command whether to counterattack, but considering the problem of preventing Sino-US relations, the mainland did not issue a counterattack order, so Zhao Yu did not choose to help counterattack.
At that time, the situation was more complicated, everything happened in an instant, Zhao Yu did not have so much reaction time at all, Zhao Yu had already crashed, Zhao Yu put all his energy on finding Wang Wei's body, so he did not care about the US military plane. Later, when the US military plane lost power, in order to keep its own life, it chose to land at Lingshui Airport in Hainan, the mainland, and was controlled by the mainland personnel just after the landing order was successful, and the US side contacted and asked for a reasonable explanation for the matter.