Just as the Philippines was hyping up China's "destruction of coral reefs in the South China Sea", there was good news: China had erected a floating barrier at the mouth of the lagoon on Scarborough Shoal. Filipino fishing boats simply did not have the opportunity to get close or sneak into the lagoon to fish.
In fact, since China actually controlled Huangyan Dao, the Chinese coast guard has often patrolled near Scarborough Shoal to protect mainland fishermen from fishing and resting here. However, Filipino fishermen sometimes sneak into the lagoon.
In order to further protect the rights and interests of Chinese fishermen and prevent the Philippines from stealing mainland fishery resources, the Chinese coast guard's rigid inflatable boat (RHIB), together with volunteers, installed a floating barrier near Scarborough Shoal.
Eleven years ago, the mainland used a variety of methods to achieve actual control for Huangyan Dao, and established Sansha City to govern the islands and reefs in the South China Sea and their waters.
Huangyan Dao is not only rich in fishery resources, but also rich in oil, gas, metals and other resources nearby, so effective control and control to avoid harassment by the Philippines in this sea area must be further measures.
In the past, during the Chinese fishing ban period, Philippine fishing boats often took advantage of the gap between regular patrols to enter the lagoon. Because Sino-Philippine cooperation then entered a warm period of time, China only drove away.
Now that China has installed a floating barrier, it is actually a wake-up call to the Philippine side: China's territorial waters will never allow others to steal resources.
For some time, the US-Philippines joint has also caused a lot of trouble in Ren'ai Jiao, and the Chinese side has resolutely prevented the Philippines from supplying building materials, and at the same time asked it to tow away the broken ship within a time limit, which the Philippines has ignored so far.
According to the supply cycle, the Philippines may also initiate the fourth replenishment within two months recently, and the first three times due to China's obstruction, the Philippines failed to carry building materials to supply. However, recently, the Philippine side has publicly stated that the broken ships of Ren'ai Jiao are not optimistic, seriously corroded and crumbling.
This is actually a windfall: in the fourth replenishment, strong replenishment of building materials will be strengthened. In response to the Philippines' hype that "China destroys corals in the South China Sea", China also said:
If the Philippines is really concerned about the ecological environment in the South China Sea, it should tow away the warships illegally beached at Ren'ai Jiao as soon as possible, stop discharging sewage into the sea, and prevent the continuous rusting warships from causing irreversible damage to the ocean.
In the near future, US coast guard ships will be permanently deployed in the South China Sea, and it is expected to further disrupt the situation in the South China Sea with the Philippine side. In this regard, we must be prepared for militarization.
The Philippine side has changed its previous practice of first breaking in and then hyping up, and has already carried out hype in advance, and it cannot be ruled out that it will adopt friction and conflict to sell out misery, so as to achieve the purpose of influencing international public opinion.
Recently Hikapu, president of the Philippine National Federation of Small Fishermen's Organizations, which has 100,000 members, accused Filipino fishermen of not allowing Filipino fishermen to fish in the waters of Scarborough Shoal and excessive felling of coral by Chinese fishing boats, which has reduced the number of Filipino fishermen's catch by 70%.
Therefore, I personally feel that Huangyan Island alone can not install a floating barrier, only by blowing and filling the island as soon as possible and improving the construction can we achieve long-term stability. Guo Zhengliang said in the latest issue of Taiwan's political talk program that the real voice of Huangyan Dao is in the hands of the United States, and Huangyan Dao will also become a key node in the future direction of Sino-US relations and contradictions and conflicts.
Then, only China's construction on Scarborough Shoal can ensure that the "bottom line of the United States" becomes a false one. The same is true of Ren'ai Reef. Otherwise, we will work hard and it will be difficult to cut off Meifei's delusions in the end.