After returning from the "US-Japan-Philippines Summit" in the United States, Marcos Jr. was like picking up a treasure, not only speaking outrageously, but also aggressively. After receiving a promise from the Philippines to trigger the "Mutual Defense Treaty" in the event of a death in the South China Sea, the Philippines announced that it had deployed US intermediate-range missiles on Luzon.
A few days ago, before Marcos Jr.'s visit to the United States, the United States, Australia, Japan, and the Philippines conducted naval military exercises, and the People's Liberation Army (PLA) also conducted exercises at the same time.
The annual U.S.-Philippine "Shoulder to Shoulder" exercise, which will be held from April 22 to May 10, will involve 16,000 troops and 14 countries as observers, making it the world's largest and the first maritime exercise to be conducted outside Philippine territorial waters. The subjects of the exercise include: maritime security, air and missile defense, dynamic missile strike, network defense, and information operations.
Philippine Army Colonel Logeco said that the US and Philippine forces will simulate the recovery of an island near Taiwan and occupied by hostile forces in the northernmost part of the Philippines.
Obviously, this is a dangerous act by the Philippines to enlist foreign countries to show off force in the South China Sea and seriously provoke China. Earlier, the Chinese side expressed its sincerity on the Ren'ai Jiao issue, demanded that the Philippine side tow away the broken ship, and before that, it would allow the Philippine side to carry out the supply of daily necessities with the consent of the Chinese side. However, the Philippine side did not appreciate it.
Instead, they continued to jump up and down. On April 15, the Defense Visualization Information Service website of the U.S. Department of Defense said that the U.S. Army's First Multidomain Task Force recently deployed a land-based medium-range capability system for the first time in northern Luzon Island in the Philippines. Luzon Island faces the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait, and the placement of SM6 and Tomahawk cruise missiles here is obviously to show that the Philippines wants to be a pawn of the United States and become a springboard for its intervention in the situation in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait.
The purpose of the U.S. deployment of the "Strategic Intermediate-Range Firepower System" on Luzon Island in the Philippines is as follows:
Control of the Bass Strait has always been an important move for the United States in the western Pacific. In the event of a battle in the Taiwan Strait in the future, the US military will use distributed kill chain tactics, island-hopping tactics with littoral combat groups, and firepower to block the Bass Strait to prevent the PLA Navy fleet from passing through the Bass Strait and heading to the western Pacific. and threatening China's nuclear submarine base on Hainan Island and weakening China's strategic nuclear deterrence capability against the United States in the South China Sea fortress zone. This includes strikes against military targets in the Southern Theater and China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
The author believes that the Philippines is determined to be the third proxy country of the US war! That is, "Ukraine second", and Marcos Jr. also wants to become "Zelensky second". A few days ago, at a "Foreign Correspondents' Talk" event in Manila, Marcos Jr. publicly admitted that the four new US military bases in the Philippines last year were for China's actions in the South China Sea. It is a change from the pledge he made last year to dispel China's misgivings.
Since Marcos Jr. is not pretending, we don't have to be polite. The Philippines has cooperated with the United States in its war to contain China and has repeatedly provoked China's bottom line, so it is time to give him some color.
Previously, for the sake of regional peace and stability in the South China Sea, China actively promoted the implementation of the Declaration on Action in the South China Sea and vigorously promoted the consultation of the Code of Action in the South China Sea.
As for how to make the Philippines remember it for a long time, I think the PLA has been prepared for a long time, and it must be something that the Philippine side and the US side will never forget, so let's wait and see. #媒体: The Philippines sold itself for two pieces of bread##