At the U.S.-Philippines summit, U.S. President Joe Biden and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos reached a new agreement. The U.S. plans to send a coast guard to conduct joint patrols and training with the Philippines in the Indo-Pacific region, while the U.S. will include the Philippines in the so-called Global Infrastructure Partnership, which will invest in ports, railways and submarine cables, logistics, clean energy, telecommunications and semiconductor supply chains.
This makes the naïve Marcos imagine that the United States and Japan will invest $100 billion in the next five to 10 years to help the Philippines improve the quality of its economy, but the military cooperation between the United States and the Philippines is becoming more and more obvious against China. Before the US-Philippines summit, the Marcos administration deliberately hyped up the Ren'ai Jiao issue to pave the way for the US-Japan-Philippines alliance. secondly, confronting his predecessor's pro-China President Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines; Finally, Marcos maintained his domestic approval rating.
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos said during the summit between the United States, Japan and the Philippines that the trilateral agreement between the United States, Japan and the Philippines is extremely important, saying that this agreement will change the development trend of the Indo-Pacific region, including the South China Sea, and that US Secretary of Defense Austin will continue to support Marcos' provocative moves in the South China Sea.
Recently, the Philippine military's provocations in the South China Sea have become increasingly frenzied, and in the face of the Philippine intensification, the Chinese coast guard has had to use water cannons to attack Philippine ships, and even use carrier-based helicopters to expel Philippine landers. During the military activities of the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines in the South China Sea, the Southern Theater of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) dispatched naval and air force patrols in relevant waters.
Unexpectedly, it was the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines military exercise, which ended on the first day of the military exercise and ended in embarrassment, which is closely related to the PLA patrol in the South China Sea, when China sent 052D and 815A electronic reconnaissance ships to carry out maritime reconnaissance missions, and the air is a joint cruise of high-tech 8 electronic reconnaissance aircraft. The Type 052D destroyer is the more powerful warship of the Chinese Navy, which can suppress the warships of the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines.
The southern combat patrol formation arrived in the waters near the four-nation military exercise, which directly made the four-nation military exercise no longer able to perform, among which the 815A electronic reconnaissance ship has strong reconnaissance performance and can obtain the electromagnetic signals and communication frequencies of the four-nation military exercise. Seeing that the 815A electronic reconnaissance ship was nearby, the Shikoku formation could no longer behave, so as not to expose more formation information.
In addition to the 815A electronic reconnaissance ship, the Gaoxin-8 electronic reconnaissance aircraft directly patrolled the airspace near the four-nation military exercise. In view of the four-nation military exercise, the southern theater is quite well prepared, and all warships, electronic reconnaissance ships, and electronic reconnaissance planes have been dispatched, and the four-nation military exercise is equivalent to the southern theater under the nose, like the warships of the four countries stuck in the throat, like a thorn in the back, can only slip out of the South China Sea.
Now that the US, Japan, and Australia have withdrawn their military exercises, the Philippines, which is in an embarrassing situation, can only seek more blessings for itself. After all, seeing that the big trees have been withdrawn, the Philippines, which is unable to support itself, can only admit cowardice again, Marcos changed his tough attitude in the past, and said that he would strengthen communication with China, Western media said that this was Marcos's disguised overture to China, coupled with the withdrawal of all the warships of the United States, Japan and Australia, and the hasty end of the military exercise.
The four-nation military exercise ended in a farce, which forced the Marcos administration to re-examine. With the loss of foreign aid, it urgently bowed to China and surrendered. Just as former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte bitterly criticized the Marcos government, he bluntly said that he did not think that the United States would die for the Philippines. Rogge, the former spokesman for President Duterte, even broke the news that the Philippines had previously reached a "gentlemen's agreement" with China on Ren'ai Jiao, allowing the delivery of food and water to ships stranded on Ren'ai Jiao, but not the transportation of construction materials.
As for the Philippines to concede defeat, China has put forward three demands. The first point is to demand that the Philippines set a deadline to dock the Philippine warship at Ren'ai Jiao for a long time, tow it away as soon as possible, and restore Ren'ai Jiao to its original state of being deserted and without facilities. The second point is that if the Philippine side transports a large amount of building materials to the ship and tries to build fixed facilities and permanent outposts, it will never accept it. The third point is that based on humanitarianism, the Philippines will provide daily necessities to the ship's occupants, and after informing the Chinese side in advance and conducting on-site inspections, the Philippine side will be allowed to transport and replenish the ship, and the Chinese side will monitor the whole process.
Ren'ai Jiao is originally China's inherent territory, and if China-Philippines relations want to improve, the Philippines must withdraw its illegally beached warships within a time limit. If the Philippines really tows away the stranded ships at Ren'ai Jiao as required by China, the tense atmosphere in the South China Sea will ease, but the Philippines insists on love, and former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte stressed that the current Marcos administration regards the South China Sea, the Taiwan issue, and the US military base as the basis of its foreign policy toward China, and allows itself to depend on the United States, which is tantamount to putting itself at risk of war and conflict.