Article source: Rongma Vision Studio
Author: Jiang Tao (Academic Committee Member, Ward Institute)
The United States is the initiator of the South China Sea issue. The United States has three major attempts to provoke tensions in the South China Sea:
One is to distract China's efforts to liberate Taiwan and prepare for China's military reunification of Taiwan.
The other is to divide China's relationship with ASEAN and disrupt China's layout.
The other is to create tension around China and allow international capital to flee from China, which is an important part of the US financial war against China.
The United States is intensively stepping up the deployment of military bases in the Philippines, sparing no effort to strengthen relations with Vietnam, and doing everything possible to win over Japan, Australia, and other countries to get deeply involved in the South China Sea affairs. The four new US military bases in the Philippines are a concrete response by the United States to China's armed settlement of the Taiwan issue.
In order to undermine China's relations with ASEAN and undermine the smooth promulgation of the South China Sea Declaration, the possibility of the United States instigating the Philippines to use the Ren'ai Jiao and Scarborough Shoal issues to provoke a small- and medium-scale conflict between China and the Philippines cannot be ruled out. With the connivance of the United States, the Philippines has been very patient with China. The Philippines claims that it plans to develop islands and coral reefs in the South China Sea in an attempt to expand its military base in the South China Sea. These include Second Thomas Shoal and Thitu Island, the largest and most strategically important island in the South China Sea.
The United States will further instigate contradictions with disputed countries with China in the South China Sea, further draw ASEAN closer to the United States, replace China's manufacturing industry with ASEAN, and form a de-Chinese supply chain, so as to strike at China's manufacturing industry. In particular, the United States wants to prevent ASEAN from becoming a major rear base for China when it liberates Taiwan.
The situation in the South China Sea is closely linked to the Taiwan Strait issue, and China has two options for countermeasures:
The first response is that if China is prepared to resolve the Taiwan issue in the short term, it will adopt a forbearance attitude in the South China Sea.
The second countermeasure: If we are not prepared to resolve the Taiwan issue in the short term, we are very likely to test the Philippines by killing chickens and monkeys and beating dogs to shock their owners. Recently, CCTV News released a video titled "Five Questions on Ren'ai Jiao", which mentioned for the first time the issue of "towing away the 'beached' warship", which sent an extremely strong signal.
In short, the United States is in charge of creating tensions in the South China Sea, and the initiative to resolve the issue once and for all lies in our response.
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