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According to the Japanese media Kyodo News Agency on March 30, Japan's Self-Defense Forces will soon hold the first joint naval exercise in 2024. In this military exercise, Japan will cooperate with the Philippines and the United States to implement a strategy to contain China.
Although this news was reported by the Japanese media. However, the real driving force behind the so-called US-Japan-Philippine joint military exercises must be the United States. Without the United States as an "intermediary coordinator," Japan and the Philippines may not be able to come together.
Some reporters have noticed that when the United States conducts military exercises around China in the past, it generally emphasizes that the relevant exercises are not aimed at specific third-party countries.
However, this time, Japan's Kyodo News Agency made it very clear when reporting the news of the military exercise that the military exercise is aimed at allowing the three countries to practice their future strategy of containing China in the South China Sea.
However, in the face of repeated provocations by the United States and its allies, China has always maintained an attitude of standing still. This approach is really incomprehensible to many people, but there is another meaning behind it.
So, why does the United States spare no effort to provoke China, and why does China maintain an attitude of standing firm in the face of US provocations?
(U.S. ships on the sea)
Next, let's take it slowly.
America's "new adversary"
Since the end of the Cold War, China has lost its role in the global layout of the United States against the Soviet Union. It was also from that time that many American politicians regarded China as their potential adversary.
But compared with China in the 90s of the last century, the United States is still more afraid of Russia, which has just gained independence from the Soviet Union. It was only after the beginning of the new century that it dawned on the Americans that China was clearly a more competitive adversary than the Soviet Union.
This competitiveness is not limited to the military. Over the years, China has accumulated a lot of international prestige by adhering to the strategy of peaceful diplomacy, which is in stark contrast to the United States' practice of adding fuel to the fire and inciting wars everywhere in the world.
Although China has not shown any intention of going against the United States, American politicians believe that once China becomes stronger, it will inevitably compete with the United States for global hegemony like the Soviet Union.
(Streets after the collapse of the Soviet Union)
Therefore, in order to strangle China's "ambition" for hegemony in the cradle, the United States began to lay a lot of chess pieces around China to encircle the mainland since the beginning of this century.
Among these pieces, Japan, South Korea and the Philippines are the most useful. Because these countries all had or are in a relationship with the United States similar to that of colonies and overlords.
Even these countries ostensibly have their own presidents and governments. The United States still maintains military bases in these countries and maintains a sizable military presence.
(Philippine Coast Guard vessel)
It is no exaggeration to say that if these countries dare not listen to the United States, the United States can almost immediately shift the blame from China to these countries. And they don't have the strength of China, and the consequences of this situation can be imagined.
Therefore, in the anti-China strategy of the United States, these countries often play the role of pawns. And they are absolutely loyal to the United States, and they are absolutely useful.
As China's development is getting faster and faster, the United States' means of encircling the mainland in the Asia-Pacific region are also becoming stronger and stronger. Against this background, the contradictions between several allies of the United States and China have also risen sharply.
(U.S. military units stationed overseas)
Anti-Chinese means of the United States
From 2023 onwards, the areas around China are becoming particularly lively. Since last summer, the United States has been provoking the Philippines to make trouble for China near Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea.
In addition, in the name of commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Inchon landing, the United States has attempted to hold a series of military exercises around the Yellow Sea to intimidate China.
But in the face of these provocations by the United States and its allies, China has exercised a considerable degree of restraint. Even if they were wielding knives and guns on China's doorstep, China did not harm them.
Subsequently, the United States hoped to draw New Zealand into the so-called Aukus alliance, allowing New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States to form an anti-China alliance in the South Pacific. The current tactics of the United States cannot be described as insidious, and this is obviously aimed at opening up a posture of all-out military confrontation with China.
(The U.S.-South Korea Coalition is holding exercises)
However, some time ago, Foreign Minister Wang Yi's visit to Australia completely shattered the wishful thinking of the Americans. In front of Australian officials, Foreign Minister Wang Yi made no secret of the hope that the future Australian government will not go back.
In addition, according to a number of foreign media reports, military cooperation between the United States and India has also increased significantly recently. At this time, India again had the capital to launch provocations against the mainland in the Sino-Indian border area.
In addition to frequently launching containment offensives against China in the military field, the United States' anti-China methods in the economic, scientific, and technological fields can also be described as quite vicious and vicious.
The United States not only requires chip manufacturing companies in allied countries such as South Korea, Japan, and the Netherlands not to export manufactured chip products below seven nanometers to Chinese companies, but also blocks a large number of cutting-edge technologies related to lens manufacturing to Chinese companies.
(Indian Army in the border area between the two countries)
Fortunately, the technological blockade of the United States has not completely interrupted the pace of China's scientific and technological development. Just after Gina Raimondo, who led the work of the technology blockade, visited China, the mainland's Huawei company immediately announced the latest series of products, giving the US Department of Commerce a fierce response.
In the economic field, the U.S. Department of Commerce has also indiscriminately launched a series of sanctions against Chinese companies. The reason given by the U.S. side is that there are cooperative relations between these Chinese companies and Russia and Iran.
A spokesman for the Department of Commerce also responded to this shameless move by the United States. It is our own business to do business with which countries Chinese companies do business with. The United States has no right to interfere in the internal affairs of Chinese companies. The U.S. Department of Commerce has used this as a reason to impose sanctions on Chinese companies, which is even more vexatious.
(China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi)
Throughout, no matter how hostile the United States is to China, China does not seem to have shown any signs of wanting to completely break with the United States. On the whole, the mainland's response to the United States has been relatively restrained.
This has puzzled many netizens: why does the United States repeatedly target China, but China has always maintained a relatively moderate attitude and is unwilling to start a frontal confrontation with the United States?
In fact, behind China's current moves lies the mainland's unique diplomatic wisdom. Only by seeing the impact and effect of this strategy can we understand China's brilliance.
(Chinese Navy Fleet)
China's brilliance
First of all, I have always held the view in the field of diplomacy that conflicts do not resolve international disputes, but only exacerbate and intensify various contradictions between countries and countries. We will never use force to settle international disputes until the last resort.
For a long time, most of the pawn countries used by the United States to provoke China were some of China's neighbors. These countries already have a broad base of cooperation with China, and China can exert economic influence over them without having to use military means against them.
After all, once the machine of war is set in motion, the two sides lose the space and room for negotiation. If the two sides do not reach the point of life and death, neither will give up easily. This does not do anything good in resolving the contradictions and problems between them.
Everything is just as the ancestors of the mainland Sun Tzu said: "The major affairs of the country of soldiers, the place of death and life, and the way of survival must not be ignored." "As one of the great powers in the world today, China must be particularly cautious in using troops to go to war.
Therefore, for a long time, the Chinese army and coast guard have only been on alert in the face of provocations. Unless someone is attacking us and threatening our security, we won't take action against them lightly.
But China is not immune to the provocations of the United States and its allies. At least in the fields of economy, trade, and science and technology, our goals are quite clear.
Although the United States has repeatedly provoked Australia, South Korea, Japan, and other allies to create trade frictions against China, since the mainland has realized that the United States is the mastermind behind the scenes, it will not be at odds with these ostensibly pawn countries.
No matter what kind of disputes and frictions erupt with China in the fields of trade and technology, China will always target only one thing: the United States behind them. Such an approach is somewhat overwhelming for today's American officials.
As for the direct contradictions and disputes between us and the United States, we will only settle accounts with the United States face to face and face to face. This is also not in conflict with the overall trend of maintaining friendship between the Chinese and American peoples.
It is the so-called "beating the snake and hitting the seven inches". The more the U.S. cultivates proxies around China to launch provocative actions against China, the more China will directly target the U.S. and make it uncomfortable to play the role of the mastermind behind the scenes.
Although American politicians have behaved extraordinarily arrogantly and domineering in the face of China every time, they still know very well in their hearts that neither they nor the United States as a whole can afford the price of a direct military conflict with China, let alone achieve a comprehensive economic decoupling with China.
So, while the United States and its allies seem to be very rampant at the moment, China is tightly grasping their lifeblood and pain points. From the beginning to the end, the United States and its allies have only won face, while China has won the most practical thing.
China has stressed more than once that competition is not the whole story of the U.S.-China relationship. We are willing to engage in healthy competition with the United States and are also willing to engage in friendly exchanges with the broad masses of the American people.
In the future, China will inevitably encounter more risks and challenges, but as a major country, we will certainly be able to maintain due determination and slowly overcome obstacles and move forward towards the set goals.
International competition is a discipline full of complex factors. How to carry out international competition and how to carry out competition has always been a topic that every country needs to think about in depth.
In the final analysis, war is only a means of competition in the international community today, and it is by no means the end of competition between countries. Only when we accurately control the delicate relationship between war and peace can we always be invincible in international diplomacy.
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