During the May Day holiday, a Philippine coast guard vessel forcibly entered the waters off Scarborough Shoal on the mainland and was driven away by water cannons from two Chinese coast guard ships.
The Philippine ship suffered some damage under the water cannons of the Chinese Coast Guard, but the Philippines' reckless intrusion into the waters of Scarborough Shoal on the mainland this time makes people feel very strange no matter how you look at it!
After all, during the US-Philippine joint military exercise, most of the attention of the confrontation between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea was focused on this military exercise, and the Philippines suspended its intrusion into mainland waters.
To say that they relied on the momentum of the US-Philippine joint military exercise to show off their might, but in this military exercise, the United States and the Philippines did not take any advantage in the confrontation with China, but they were forced to be very embarrassed, which makes the Philippines' move this time very strange!
Sure enough, the Philippines soon showed its fox tail, and the Philippine ship No. 4410, which had intruded into the waters off Scarborough Shoal, immediately called the media to take on-the-spot filming to show the media the damage suffered by the Philippine ship in the confrontation with the Chinese Coast Guard! Judging from the various signs displayed by the Philippines, it seems that the Philippine ship that intruded into China's waters had been prepared for a long time!
What is the reason for the Philippine side's abrupt move?
In the standoff at Scarborough Shoal on April 30, whether it was in the video released by the Chinese side or in the news captured by the Western media, we can see that the Chinese water cannon mainly attacked the radar antenna and antenna shield of the Philippine ship.
We admit that the mast of the awning of the Philippine ship was damaged by our water cannon, but when the two sides confronted each other in the waters off Scarborough Shoal, there was no fierce collision, and the overall structure of the Philippine ship was not damaged much!
But when the Philippine official showed it to the media, it showed that the ship had suffered structural damage in the collision with the Chinese coast guard, and the glass of the wheelhouse was also broken, and the Philippine side also said that their personnel were injured to a certain extent!
This approach undoubtedly reminds us of the previous Philippine ship being attacked by the Chinese coast guard water cannon, and after returning to China, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. went to visit these injured people in the hospital and awarded them so-called medals, which contained a strong exaggeration and showmanship!
Combined with the Philippines' abrupt invasion of the waters of Scarborough Shoal, we have to suspect that the Philippines' behavior was premeditated, just when everyone was still confused about this matter, a picture of the Philippine Coast Guard ship No. 4410 made everyone suddenly enlightened!
From this photo, it is not difficult to see that the Philippines seems to have reinforced the ship before sending the ship 4410 to invade mainland waters.
The perimeter of the ship's cockpit is reinforced with covers, which can effectively resist the bombardment of water cannons when subjected to the impact of high-pressure water cannons, so that the water cannot enter the cockpit, at least to ensure the safety of the wheelhouse!
Moreover, it is not difficult to see from the video released by both parties at the scene that when the Chinese coast guard used water cannons to attack the glass of the cab, although it caused a certain impact on the glass, there was no glass breakage.
Through this, it is not difficult to guess that No. 4410 is very likely to replace all the wheelhouse glass with bulletproof ones, so as to at least ensure the safety of Western reporters in the wheelhouse, and our coast guard ship is very likely to find that the wheelhouse glass jet water cannon can not cause damage, so it chooses to retreat and attack the ship's radar!
What's next for China?
The Philippine side's practice of exaggerating the damage to the ship's hull and asking the media to take pictures is undoubtedly using this method to smear China and seek sympathy from the West, and it is also a relatively compromise method that the Philippines has found when it has been unable to get benefits from a head-to-head confrontation with China.
But is such a method useful for China? In fact, such a move by the Philippines has no effect at all except to provide the Western media with some material to smear China!
With the gradual popularization of Internet media, the trust of these so-called authoritative media in the West among the people has become lower and lower, and now there is a wave of anti-Israel frenzy in the West, which is exactly the crazy counterattack of the Western people after seeing the truth of the matter!
Therefore, no matter how much the Western media slander and smear China, it is difficult to have much impact now, because their media has lost basic trust among the people, let alone any authority!
After all, if the Philippines realizes that its ships are no longer afraid of Chinese water cannons and the cost of their provocations becomes lower, according to the Philippine side's character of taking inches, they will intrude into mainland waters more frequently in the future!
Since the Philippines tore up the South China Sea Gentlemen's Agreement, China's attitude towards the Philippines has become tougher. Then we might as well take some more radical measures, just like our netizens proposed, mix some sand or stones in the water cannon, and use high pressure to spray these sand and gravel when the simple water cannon cannot cause more damage, and strive to cause more damage to the Philippine ships!
Or even more simply increase the power of the water cannon, so that it can directly hit the Philippine ships to the extent that they can cause fatal damage, and let the Philippine coast guard ships sink one by one, and see if the Philippines dares to provoke in the South China Sea!