Recently, information from Russian media shows that the Indian Navy is preparing to conduct joint military exercises with the Philippine Navy in the South China Sea. The Indian Navy dispatched a stealth frigate this time, which has already arrived in Madeira. On the surface, the news released by India and the Philippines is that the two sides are ready to strengthen the level of training through Xi, but in fact, everyone knows that India's intention to drink alcohol is not to drink, but obviously wants to give China eye medicine in the South China Sea.
As we all know, the South China Sea has not been peaceful in the past year, and China has engaged in a fierce game with the surrounding jackals around Ren'ai Jiao and many other islands in the South China Sea. In the South China Sea, the Philippines is undoubtedly a very important player. Although Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos had intended to reconcile with China, he also went to China in person. However, the Philippine military is already a hardliner on China, and most of these people graduated from the United States and are influenced by US foreign policy, so naturally they will not sit idly by and watch the reconciliation between China and the Philippines.
Therefore, everyone can notice that after Musk arrived in China, the frequency of collisions between China and the Philippines has become higher and higher. In addition to the Philippines, which is in the chess game, extraterritorial intervention countries are also factors that cannot be ignored, first of all, the United States, the former suzerainty of the Philippines, has taken the Philippines as the next strategic fulcrum of the main battle to stir up the situation around China after encountering a nose in the Taiwan Strait and the peninsula. At the same time, not only the United States, but also Japan is also very attentive to using the Philippines to consume the mainland's energy, from conducting joint military exercises to selling maritime patrol ships, the purpose of which can be said to be obvious.
However, when it comes to the most important thing, it has to be India. India's decision to sell the BrahMos anti-ship missile battery to the Philippines should be clear to those who know about the Falklands War that anti-ship missiles are very important asymmetric combat weapons in modern warfare, especially supersonic anti-ship missiles like BrahMos, which will greatly increase the pressure on the Navy's regional air defense system, and although its influence is certainly not as good as that of a strategic weapon like THAAD, it cannot be underestimated.
And in the confrontation at sea, the role of long-range anti-ship missiles is obvious and has a certain deterrent effect. The BrahMos anti-ship missile is an anti-ship missile jointly developed by India and Russia, weighing 3,000 kilograms, with a maximum flight speed of Mach 2.8 and a range of up to 280-300 kilometers.
Moreover, India's sale of high-threat tactical weapons to the Philippines is likely to get off to a bad start. In the future, the United States and its NATO allies, as well as South Korea, which has been thriving in the international arms market in recent years, may join the arms sales to the Philippines and then arm the Philippines into a hedgehog in the South China Sea, which is not a good sign. The Philippines has once again opened its military bases to the United States, and as the number of U.S. military bases increases, the U.S. military's military presence in the Asia-Pacific region will increase.
The U.S. military will also deploy an extended-range version of the Seahorse rocket launcher in the Philippines, using ballistic missiles with a maximum range of up to 600 kilometers, and the U.S. military will also provide an improved version of the "Harpoon" anti-ship missile, which is deployed on the islands and can be regarded as a guerrilla weapon. In the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Ukraine used anti-ship missiles that sank several Russian ships, including the Moskva missile cruiser.
However, the Philippines wants to take the lead in the South China Sea, and sooner or later it will be retributed. The PLA's southern theater has powerful land, sea and air forces, and for China, which is at a critical juncture in its rise, it is only a matter of time before a 21 st century self-defense counterattack is used to deter those jackals who attempt to blockade the mainland through economic, scientific, technological, and political affairs. The Philippines is undoubtedly a very suitable country to set an example for the monkeys.
And the United States, Japan, India, and other countries that are waving their flags behind their backs should not think that they can sit back and relax; one of the major characteristics of modern warfare is that it is global, and the distance is not enough to limit the spread of war, and if the small circle of the United States continues to be obsessed with it, it will not be as simple as killing chickens and setting an example to monkeys. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty blitzed the Turks, and from a longer period of time, sooner or later the "world order" maintained by the United States will be completely ended, so please wait and see.