The Philippines really does not stop for a moment, either with the idea of attacking islands and reefs in the South China Sea, or by enlisting foreign forces to conduct military exercises in the South China Sea in a vain attempt to build up individual and collective self-defense capabilities.
Here, the Philippines gathered the United States, Japan, and Australia, and jointly sent a total of five warships and one military aircraft to conduct a joint military exercise off the northwest coast of Palawan, with the goal directly aimed at Scarborough Shoal.
In addition to these countries, Canada is also eyeing it, and India is also interested in intervening, not to mention the United Kingdom, is this to seize the interests of the South China Sea, to form a new eight-nation alliance?
During the confrontation in the South China Sea in 2016, China did not have a single 055 drive, and now there are 8 ships, and there is one more Shandong ship, and the Fujian ship is about to enter service.
The Philippines has been jumping up and down for more than a day or two, and there is a daily disturbance around Ren'ai Jiao and Scarborough Shoal, and recently it has added Iron Wire Reef and Horseshoe Crab Reef, and a few small wrecked boats are endlessly provoking in the South China Sea.
Of course, beating the Philippines is very simple, the problem is that it depends on the owner to beat the dog, the Philippines is actually behind the United States, the Philippines is unscrupulous because the United States gave him a promise, some time ago the U.S. Navy Indo-Pacific Command made it clear: If there are Philippine fishermen or sailors killed or injured in the conflict, the "U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty" signed in 1951 can be activated.
The United States does not have many actual interests in the South China Sea, but why does it support the Philippines so much? The root cause is to break the relationship between China and ASEAN, of which the Philippines is a member of ASEAN, which is equivalent to creating a thorn in the side of China within ASEAN and opposing us at every turn.
China's Code of Conduct in the South China Sea has already completed its second reading within ASEAN, and if it is adopted within ASEAN, the United States will be squeezed out of the South China Sea as an extra-regional country, which is why the Philippines is now instigating provocations.
If there is really a war in the South China Sea, the United States will not be able to make any gains, but now there is no need to lose a big deal because of a small one, China and ASEAN are inextricably linked, and Southeast Asia is China's basic territory.
Of course, in order to cope with the joint military exercises of the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines, the Southern Theater is also organizing joint naval and air combat patrols in the corresponding South China Sea waters, and has dispatched more than a dozen warships to teach the other side how to behave.
Since the United States continues to stir up trouble in the South China Sea, then it is pinching Israel in the Middle East, this is the little ancestor of the United States, and then Iran should do it, don't be cowardly, the big brother is behind you.
The whole world is looking forward to the end of the United States in the Middle East, but the strategic determination of the United States is still okay, even if it is humiliated by the Houthis in Yemen, the United States is now resolutely fighting a proxy war, and it will never end up in person, after all, if it loses, it will never have a chance.
Whenever the United States can solve you with its fists, it will never stand on the sidelines and point fingers, and now it is sending people to visit China constantly to express some positive intentions, and on the other hand, it is actively hyping up the South China Sea issue.
However, the South China Sea issue always needs to be resolved, and China is now capable of solving it.
It's time for China to intensify the Philippines!