Recently, the United States has taken the initiative to have frequent contacts with China and sent a number of heavyweight officials to visit China in an attempt to ease the current tensions, but the confrontation between China and the United States still exists. In order to seek re-election, US President Joe Biden will ease Sino-US tensions at least before the end of the US election, and at the same time, US President Joe Biden has expressed that he "does not support Taiwan independence", which has proved that Sino-US relations will not go worse.
The United States, Japan, and the Philippines have just held a summit of heads of state, and as part of the US strategy to contain China, even if Sino-US relations ease, the US strategy will not change. The United States and the Philippines are about to hold joint military exercises in the South China Sea, which are aimed at a third party, and the U.S.-Philippine military exercises are aimed at China.
On April 22, the United States and the Philippines officially launched the "shoulder to shoulder" annual military exercise, the military exercise area is located in the northern and western waters of the Philippines, the United States and the Philippines sent 16,000 troops and soldiers, France and Australia also participated in the military exercise, unlike in the past, the military exercise is far away from the Philippine coastline about 22 kilometers away in the open sea, and will also be held in Palawan, not far from China's Nansha Islands. According to the Philippines, similar exercises will also be held in the Bataan Islands, which are less than 300 kilometers away from China's Taiwan Province.
Just today, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit China from April 24 to 26, during which Chinese officials will meet. Before Blinken's visit to China landed, the US-Philippine military exercises had already begun, and on the 20th, the USS Roosevelt strike group appeared in the waters south of Scarborough Shoal, and it is likely to participate in the US-Philippine military exercises, but the Roosevelt strike group approached China's Scarborough Shoal at a delicate moment, thinking that the US-Philippine military exercise was close to the waters of Scarborough Shoal. Obviously, this move by the United States is to support the Philippines.
In the long-term game between China and the United States, the United States uses the first island chain to contain China, and the next Sino-US relations are likely to ease, but this way of encircling and resisting China is impossible to change, and Japan, the Philippines, Australia, and India are also on the list of the United States, and Japan and the Philippines are just the two horns that clamp China up and down the first island chain.
As the Roosevelt strike group approached Scarborough Shoal, the Chinese Navy took immediate action. In the vicinity of the US aircraft carrier, two Type 054A frigates and one Project 792 electronic reconnaissance ship are tracking and surveillance. It has been learned that Chinese warships are cruising in the vicinity of US aircraft carriers and can monitor electromagnetic signals and carrier-based aircraft at any time, which has made US Navy aircraft carriers dare not provoke easily, and carrier-based aircraft have not taken off or landed.
With the rapid growth of China's naval and air force combat capabilities, the South China Sea is no longer the territory of US aircraft carriers, and China has an absolute advantage in the South China Sea, coupled with the continuous narrowing of the gap in military strength. Seeing the appearance of Chinese warships, the US Navy aircraft carriers no longer dare to territorial our territorial waters, so they can only suffer in the South China Sea.
Before Blinken's visit to China, US officials revealed that Blinken will ask China in person not to carry out any "provocative" activities to affect peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait when Lai Qingde takes office in 520, but Blinken will not only talk about the Taiwan Strait issue, but also the South China Sea issue. At the instigation of the United States, Philippine National Security Adviser Arnold directly played a scoundrel, and any secret agreement reached between China and the previous Philippine government on the dispute over islands and reefs in the South China Sea is invalid, and the current government will not recognize such an agreement, and has no knowledge of any secret or gentleman's agreement, and the Marcos government will take direct measures to abolish the agreement.
The U.S.-Philippine military exercises are aimed at putting pressure on China, and the Marcos administration's repeated denial of the "gentlemen's agreement" is relying on the backing of the United States to confront China. Before the US-Philippine military exercise, China welcomed an important "guest", and the new Russian naval commander Moiseyev led a delegation to China, where he not only participated in the Western Pacific Naval Forum, but also met with the top level of the Chinese navy. The Russian Ministry of Defense said that the visit will deepen cooperation between the Chinese and Russian navies.
As the Chinese and Russian navies deepen cooperation, they will work together to maintain regional stability in the western Pacific, and the Chinese and Russian navies will also hold various military exercises. The approach of the Chinese and Russian navies is a countermeasure to the joint military exercises between the United States and the Philippines, and Blinken's visit to China warned the Chinese side not to get too close to the Russian side.