The joint patrol of the United States and the Philippines in the South China Sea has ended, but the real contest has just begun, the People's Liberation Army continues to draw a Xi area in the South China Sea, and the South China Sea issue will definitely not give the United States and the Philippines any respite, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has also issued a "death order" to the United States.
The US-Philippine joint cruise came to an end in the eyes of all sides, and the US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier "Carl Vinson" and the cruiser that the Philippines was expecting did not come at all, and even only one destroyer appeared. At the end of the story, the Philippine destroyer had no choice but to retreat from the South China Sea after a few laps with the American destroyer under the watchful eyes of the Chinese destroyer Hefei and the frigate Huangshan. After the US-Philippine tour was completed, our military immediately began to exercise, and the contest in the South China Sea had just begun. On the 5th of this month, the Southern Theater of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) drew up restricted areas in some waters of the South China Sea and organized routine joint naval and air exercises. Our army does not intend to give the United States and the Philippines any respite, and strictly prevent them from making a comeback.
Last year, with the instigation and support of the United States, the maritime disputes between China and the Philippines escalated one after another, and the two sides once quarreled to the point of diplomatic protests against each other, and the Philippine side even threatened to expel Huang Xilian, the Chinese ambassador to the Philippines. Moreover, the Philippine side has also issued a "pass" to the US military at the Philippine military base closest to the Taiwan region, which is not only a serious provocation to the South China Sea, but also to the Taiwan Strait.
On 21 November, the United States and the Philippines restarted joint maritime patrols that had been interrupted for seven years, on 25 December, the USS Hopper guided missile destroyer trespassed into the Xisha waters, and on 4 December, the USS Giffords, a littoral combat ship, sailed into the waters adjacent to Ren'ai Jiao. The US has repeatedly threatened China, claiming that the so-called "US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty" applies to the entire South China Sea, including Second Thomas Shoal.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos frequently bargained with China on the South China Sea issue, relying on the attention and interference of the United States and Japan in the South China Sea affairs, so China also chose to break through the South China Sea issue one by one. As for the Philippines, the Chinese side has bluntly stated that the Philippines is now at a "crossroads" and must make the right choice.
The interests of the Philippines and the United States in the South China Sea are different, the United States is just paving the way for its "Indo-Pacific strategy", and the Philippines is just trying to use the situation to suppress others, but the United States and the Philippines have both violated China's core interests and stepped on China's red line. At the beginning of the new year, the PLA's Southern Theater has repeatedly taken action, including routine patrols, follow-up and vigilance, and has also issued notices and videos to show naval aviation training in the South China Sea with live ammunition, which is a serious warning to the United States and the Philippines.
On the 5th, Wang Yi delivered a speech at a reception commemorating the 45th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, in which he reiterated that the United States should respect China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and pointed out that "China-US cooperation is not an optional question, but a must that must be seriously resolved." Sino-US relations are the most important relations between the two countries in the world today, and Sino-Philippine relations, Sino-Japanese relations, Sino-ROK relations, Sino-European relations, and so on are all affected by the US policy toward China.