Recently, the Philippines has illegally intruded into Scarborough Shoal and Ren'ai Jiao, and China's coast guard law enforcement forces have also taken strong countermeasures against the Philippines' approach, which has always failed the Philippines, but the Philippines is trying to get involved in other Chinese islands and reefs, which is Xianbin Jiao.
The Philippine Coast Guard quietly dispatched the patrol ship "Teresa Magbanua" to the waters of Senbin Reef in the South China Sea, and the patrol ship has been staying at Senbin Reef for more than 20 days while monitoring Chinese ships in the waters of Senbin Reef. In the face of the Philippines' dispatch of patrol ships, China has increased its coast guard force to enforce the law to prevent the Philippine side from jumping over the wall.
According to Philippine spokesman Tariera, China has carried out "small-scale land reclamation" at Sembin Reef. The Philippine Coast Guard has sent one to monitor what China calls the construction of "artificial islands," and two other ships are providing support in the area. According to the Philippines, it is to comprehensively monitor China's construction of "artificial islands" and sabotage of "destruction of marine ecology".
Tariella stressed that China's recent build-up of dozens of ships, including Chinese frigates and coast guard vessels, in the waters off Sembin Reef, combined with a large number of "maritime militia vessels," is "shocking." Regarding the Chinese vessel at Xianbin Reef, the Philippine Coast Guard threatened to send an oceanographic research team to Xianbin Reef for investigation.
Obviously, the Philippines has very sinister motives, on the one hand, claiming that China has reclaimed land on Xianbin Reef, and on the other hand, it is sending a Philippine marine research team to Xianbin Reef in order to steal and occupy China's Xianbin Reef. In 1999, the Philippine Navy's dilapidated landing ship went to Ren'ai Jiao, claiming that "the bottom of the ship was leaking, and it had to sit on the reef flat on the northwest side of Ren'ai Jiao, and finally reached the illegal beaching at Ren'ai Jiao, and sent soldiers to station in shifts."
The Philippines also wants to repeat its old tricks and stage illegal beaching at Xianbin Reef in an attempt to "take actual control." Xianbin Reef is part of China's Spratly Islands, over which China has indisputable sovereignty. In response to Philippine accusations that China is "reclaiming land" at Xianbin Reef, the Philippine Coast Guard stressed that it is committed to maintaining its presence at Xianbin Reef.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin bitterly criticized the Philippine approach, saying that the Philippine accusations against China are groundless and pure rumors, but from another perspective, China's "land reclamation" at Xianbin Jiao is also in its own territory, and the Philippines' accusation of land reclamation by China is to put it bluntly, the Philippines just wants to occupy China's Xianbin Jiao and wants to hype, but China will never accept the unreasonable accusations of the Philippines.
At present, China occupies an absolute dominant position in the South China Sea, and the Philippines is obviously at a disadvantage, which is the most direct manifestation of the United States' extraterritorial forces drawn into the South China Sea to support it. In the face of the Philippines' actions, China has warned the Philippines and asked the Philippines to recognize the reality.
If the Philippines continues to be tough, China does not rule out resuming land reclamation in the South China Sea. China has long been familiar with land reclamation in seven islands and reefs in the South China Sea, including Mischief Island, Subi Island, Fiery Cross Island, Huayang Island, Chigua Island, Nanxun Island and Dongmen Island. Mischief Island has been reclaimed from the sea and covers an area of a staggering 6 square kilometers, and is equipped with airfields and shore-based missiles, as well as the deployment of Air Police-500 AWACS aircraft and heavy fighter jets.
The island is equipped with a wharf that can dock 10,000-ton destroyers, and the Type 055 destroyer Zunyi was docked here during the US-Philippine military exercises. The construction of these military facilities will safeguard China's territorial integrity in the South China Sea and deter the Philippines' provocations in the South China Sea.
Since Marcos Jr. came to power, China-Philippines relations have become increasingly tense, and the Philippines has frequently caused trouble in the South China Sea, but China will never repeat the Ren'ai Jiao farce. Therefore, the Chinese side has reclaimed land on Xianbin Reef and relied on the cutter suction dredger "Sky Whale", which is an island-building artifact, to turn Xianbin Reef into an island at any time, and once China decides to build islands and reefs, it will send a warning to the Philippines not to vainly attempt to occupy China's islands and reefs.
If China really reclaims land at Sembin Reef, the Philippines will have nothing to do. On the contrary, the Philippines is most worried that the dilapidated warship illegally sat on Ren'ai Jiao and never dragged it away, but could only watch as it sank and was eroded by the sea. At the same time, China is really reclaiming land at Xianbin Reef, which is to let the Philippines understand that it still wants to steal China's islands and reefs, which can only be a fool's dream.