The United States, Japan, the Philippines and Australia provoked in the South China Sea, Japan had the most arrogant attitude, and the People's Liberation Army attacked, patrolling the South China Sea in naval and air battles.
The four-nation coalition went to the South China Sea to conduct military exercises, but the statements of the defense ministers of various countries were completely different, among which Japan was the most arrogant, and the PLA was too lazy to guess what their intentions were.
It is reported that the navies of the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines held their first joint naval exercise in the South China Sea on 7 April.
The subjects of this joint military exercise include anti-submarine and patrol contents, but the scale is not as "grand" as the US media hyped before.
You must know that before the start of the four-nation joint military exercise, a number of Western media hyped it up, claiming that the scale of the military exercise would be extremely huge.
In particular, the US media has openly disclosed that the US military will dispatch an aircraft carrier fleet and at least 10,000 military personnel to participate.
However, after the military exercise began, people were surprised to find that only five warships participated in the four-nation joint military exercise. The Philippines, as the "host" of this military exercise, is naturally the hardest working party, and it is not large enough to make up the numbers, so it dispatched two offshore patrol ships.
The remaining three countries, the United States, Japan, and Australia, each sent a littoral combat ship, a destroyer, and a frigate, which can be regarded as a small platform for this military exercise.
However, don't look at the scale of the four-nation joint military exercise, but there are no fewer projects that should be there, and the hot spots that should be hyped have not fallen.
First of all, it is the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines that have given this military exercise a seemingly "noble" but ironic name, that is, the so-called "collective commitment to a free and open Indo-Pacific".
Second, the four defense ministers of the United States, Japan, Australia, and the Philippines stood up in a dignified manner and issued a joint statement with a preamble that did not match the afterword. They stressed that the joint military exercise was not targeted or directed, and seemed to be trying to erase the meaning of "provocation", but they were deliberately emphasizing the legal effect of the so-called "South China Sea arbitration".
To be honest, the performance of the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines is very incomprehensible, after so many years, there has been no growth at all, except for the nonsense full of nonsense, or that set of clichéd rhetoric, not even a little fresh vocabulary.
Isn't the so-called "South China Sea Arbitration Case" just a big international joke concocted by the United States and the Philippines against China? On the one hand, they say that they have no purpose or direction, and on the other hand, they emphasize erroneous propositions that are not recognized by China and the international community.
However, judging from the statements of the four defense ministers, we can also find an interesting point, don't look at the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to engage in such a joint military exercise, but each has a ghost in mind and is not on the same road.
Not to mention the United States and the Philippines, there is nothing new in the consistent clichés, and the key is that the statements made by the defense ministers of Japan and Australia are quite intriguing.
The Japanese defense minister said that the South China Sea issue is of great concern to the international community and is related to regional peace and stability, and resolutely opposes any attempt to unilaterally change the status quo and escalate the regional situation through force.
When these words came out of the mouth of Japan, I always felt very ironic, either the thief shouted to catch the thief or slapped his mouth, anyway, it was abnormal. On the other hand, Australia's defense minister was more cautious, saying that only by respecting sovereignty and international law can regional stability be maintained.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand Australia's attitude, because the Australian side has suffered a lot since China-Australia relations fell into a difficult situation, and some efforts were made to ease relations between the two countries some time ago.
Although the results may not be satisfactory, it is not difficult to see from the statement of the Australian defense minister that he still does not want to overstimulate China and make China-Australia relations worse.
In any case, it is absolutely intolerable for the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines to go to China's doorstep to provoke.
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) did not bother to guess what "ghost fetus" they had in their hearts, and in accordance with the principle that soldiers would block the water and cover the earth, on the day of the opening of the joint military exercise of the four countries, they also launched a "joint combat patrol" in the relevant sea areas, and everything was under control!
