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Recently, the Chinese Coast Guard announced that it would conduct regular training at Scarborough Shoal, which is what the Philippines fears the most, which means that China will replicate the "Diaoyu Dao model" in the South China Sea and cut the Philippines with a knife.
The so-called "Diaoyu Dao model" is that China's coast guard conducts regular patrols on the Diaoyu Islands throughout the year, from 159 days in 2018 to 333 days in 2020. In 2023, China Coast Guard ships will reach 352 days of annual cruise.
The reason for the regular patrols is to defend China's territorial sovereignty, and the sovereignty of the waters of the Diaoyu Islands belongs to China. However, Japan has always wanted to seize the Diaoyu Islands.
Diaoyu Dao is located in the East China Sea of the mainland, the main island is Diaoyu Dao, Diaoyu Dao and its affiliated islands have been China's territory since ancient times, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty, Taiwan's Penghu and Diaoyu Dao have long been under the jurisdiction of the Southern Song Dynasty government, and then for nearly 1,000 years, it has been under the jurisdiction of China.
The 174,000 square kilometers of sea around the Diaoyu Islands contain 80 billion barrels of oil and gas resources under the sea, as well as rich fishing resources, which is why Japan has always coveted the Diaoyu Islands. In the 70s, the United States privately assigned the Ryukyu Islands and Diaoyu Islands to Japan, which aroused strong protests from the Chinese side and also caused patriotic people in Taiwan to defend the fishing procession.
However, because of Japan's strong economy and maritime power at that time, it has been "de facto controlling the Diaoyu Islands" since then, and in 2012, Japan directed and staged a farce of "buying the islands", which led to tensions between China and Japan.
Since then, the Chinese Coast Guard has begun regular patrols in the waters near the Diaoyu Islands. From the original regular cruise, to today's almost year-round cruise. Japan's Kyodo News Agency reported that China's coast guard will reach year-round patrols in 2024, ensuring that coast guard ships patrol the waters around the Diaoyu Islands every day, and if necessary, board Japanese fishing boats for inspection.
This kind of year-round normalized patrol naturally makes Japan a headache, because my coast guard ships are more than the Japanese Coast Guard in terms of tonnage and patrol strength, and the law enforcement efforts are more than those of the Japan Coast Guard, and the iterative update of China's coast guard ships is too fast, and now the main force is 3,000 tons, 5,000 tons, and 6,000 tons of large coast guard ships, and even 12,000 tons of top coast guard ships, in addition to more than 100 thousand-ton coast guard ships, and the Chinese coast guard alone has more than 100,000 people.
Although the overall tonnage of Japan's coast guard ships is not as good as China's, there are many large coast guard ships, such as 7,000-ton and 9,000-ton coast guard ships are also equipped with 20 to 40 mm small guns, and most of the coast guard ships on the mainland are equipped with 76 mm guns, and large coast guard ships also have large-caliber main guns, so in terms of firepower, we crush the Japanese coast guard ships, and in terms of duty, the Chinese coast guard also crushes the Japan Coast Guard.
In the face of the regular patrols of China's maritime surveillance vessels, Japan is powerless, and it can be said that China has complete control over the Diaoyu Islands and the waters around them, and Japanese law enforcement vessels can only force their way into the waters, and are often driven away by our coast guard ships. Japan also does not dare to allow naval warships to come here, otherwise China will inevitably send warships, which will escalate the situation.
Chinese coast guard vessels expelled Japanese fishing boats
In terms of the current economic and military strength of China and Japan, although Japan continues to instigate the United States to suppress China, it does not dare to challenge China's red line. For example, in 2023, 28 Japanese fishing boats that wanted to break into the waters of the Diaoyu Islands were driven away by our coast guard, and at the end of April, five Japanese parliamentarians broke into the waters of the Diaoyu Islands in the name of inspection, and were also driven away by our coast guard ships.
In recent years, the reason why the Diaoyu Islands are no longer a hot issue is that Japan has been completely suppressed by the mainland, and the Chinese coast guard has gradually gained control of the Diaoyu Islands and its waters with regular patrols and "cutting the flesh with a knife".
China's 10,000-ton coast guard ship
Compared with Japan's coast guard, the Philippine coast guard is far inferior to Japan in terms of ship tonnage and law enforcement, let alone compared with Chinese coast guard ships. Based on the Philippines' continuous provocation in the South China Sea, which used to be Scarborough Shoal and Ren'ai Jiao, and now even Tiexian Reef and Xianbin Reef, where Philippine ships have forcibly intruded, the Chinese coast guard has mainly focused on driving away and water cannon impact.
Recently, however, the Philippines has attempted to mobilize more than 100 civilian ships to forcibly enter Scarborough Shoal in response to such constant provocations. Recently, the China Coast Guard announced that it will conduct regular patrols in the waters near Scarborough Shoal. This kind of "cutting meat with a knife" is what the Philippines is most afraid of, the Diaoyu Islands, and in this way we have taken back sovereignty and control, and also avoided friction.
The Chinese Coast Guard drove away other countries' vessels
With China's strong national strength and shipbuilding industry, as well as the continuous expansion of coast guard vessels, I believe that whether it is Scarborough Shoal or the disputed islands and reefs in the South China Sea, we will use this method to take back the sovereignty and maritime rights and interests of our islands and reefs that are not likely to cause conflict.
Sources of information:
May 14, 2024, China.com: The China Coast Guard successfully carried out a life-saving training at sea in the waters off Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea
https://www.toutiao.com/article/7368743713650033163/?channel=&source=search_tab
On May 14, 2024, Qilu One Point: The details are coming! The Chinese Coast Guard conducts life-saving training in the waters off Scarborough Shoal
On May 14, 2024, Huanqiu.com: Doxxing the Philippines' infringing "non-governmental organizations" in the South China Sea: instigating people to go to Scarborough Shoal to "touch porcelain" and cooperate with the United States to "sell miserably" in the field of public opinion
https://www.toutiao.com/article/7368614145996128822/?channel=&source=search_tab