Scarborough Shoal has been China's inherent territory since ancient times, and it is indisputable!
On May 15, 2024, more than 100 small Philippine fishing boats sprung up near Scarborough Shoal on the mainland, attempting to "touch" China's sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal.
As for the Philippines' "porcelain touching" methods, they are still the same: 1) instigating local fishermen to break into the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal, 2) waving flags and shouting slogans, and 3) accompanying a group of foreign "observers".
Knowing that the territorial sovereignty of Scarborough Shoal belongs to China, the Philippines still staged such inferior "porcelain touching" tactics one after another, but in fact, its intention is very obvious.
Eggs hit stones
Since Marcos Jr. became president of the Philippines, the South China Sea, which had been discontinued, began to become "lively" again, and it became more and more intense, and the smell of gunpowder gradually rose.
However, the Philippines is like a clown jumping off a beam in front of China, and the Philippines is very different from China in terms of military strength and comprehensive national strength.
Because of the gap in national strength between the two sides, coupled with the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the United States, the Philippines can only "disgust" China through despicable means.
Meanness is the passport of the despicable, and this sentence is not too much for the Philippines.
In order to achieve its own political goals, the Philippines has always used the method of pretending to be a "victim" in the international community, and this is the case with the Scarborough Shoal incident.
Badly dressed fishermen, decayed and dilapidated wooden boats, and "foreign observers" who are always ready to photograph these fishermen being chased away by the Chinese coast guard are the Philippine performances.
Fake yourself as "bullied by China" in order to gain international public opinion support.
However, the Philippines thought it was the perfect script, but it was a joke.
In order to drive and use its own fishermen to infringe on China's territorial sovereignty, the Philippines directly came up with a killer weapon - diesel.
Diesel, the most commonly used fuel for fishing vessels, has become a tool in the hands of Philippine politicians, who promise to give diesel fuel to Filipino fishermen and use them as "cannon fodder" to challenge China's sovereignty.
Although Filipino fishermen who have been blinded by "petty profits" are willing to be driven by the Philippine government, it does not mean that they do not have brains.
In order to cater to the "show" of the Philippine government, although the Filipino fishermen got diesel fuel from the government, these diesel fuel are the guys that the fishermen eat, and they are not willing to risk their fishing boats at all, but choose the most common "crab boats" in Southeast Asia.
The "crab boats" are shaped like crabs, and only two or three people can fit in one boat, and these "crab boats" are like mayflies shaking trees in front of the 1,000-ton police ships of the China Coast Guard.
Interestingly, the Chinese Coast Guard reported that the Chinese Coast Guard launched a life-saving training near Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, and perhaps the Chinese Coast Guard's "life-saving training at sea" will come in handy after these Filipino fishermen have violated China's sovereignty by invading Scarborough Shoal.
Peace in the South China Sea has long been China's claim, and now Southeast Asian countries, with the exception of the Philippines, have largely echoed the idea of peace in the South China Sea.
As for why the Philippines has repeatedly provoked China's sovereignty, it is nothing more than trying to firmly cling to the thigh of the United States.
Skinning with tigers
It must be profitable for the Philippines to use its own fishermen to repeatedly violate China's territorial sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal, and the Philippines' petty calculations can be described as conspiring with the tiger.
As a key part of the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy and an important part of the U.S. first island chain, the relationship between the Philippines and the United States is delicate.
Although it seems that the Philippines is standing in front of the stage to stir up troubles in the various disputes in the South China Sea, anyone with a discerning eye knows that there must be the United States behind the scenes.
As early as the last century, in order to contain the Asian continent, the United States had already noticed the geographical importance of the Philippines, and in 1951 the two countries signed the "US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty".
However, there is an old Chinese saying that "everyone runs when the mountain falls", and the Philippines sees the backer as a pawn in the great power game.
Being too close to the United States has led to the fact that the Philippines seems to be an independent sovereign country, but in fact it has long been a "colony" of the United States.
As the core of the U.S. "Indo-Pacific strategy", the Philippines has always thought that hugging the thigh of the United States can reap rich rewards, so it has always spared no effort to act as a pawn of the United States.
The ideal is full, the reality is cruel.
The Philippines also wants to become a developed country like Japan, so it is eager for American investment, and as the president of the Philippines, Musk Jr. has been actively visiting the United States, hoping to get $100 billion in financial investment from the United States, but the result is that the annual investment of the United States in the Philippines is only about $1 billion.
Take a comparison of data, the United States has invested more than $2 billion in Thailand all year round, while the Philippines, as a staunch "ally" of the United States, can only get $1 billion in investment, but it can still make the Philippines hug the thighs of the United States.
There is an interesting question, what is there that the Philippines has and China does not? The answer is obvious: U.S. forces in the Philippines.
You must know that the Philippines has a total of 9 US military bases, but the military strength of the Philippines itself is a joke.
How strong is the army in the Philippines? CCTV gave the latest answer: 10 tanks, 12 heavy artillery, and more than 500 armored vehicles.
In March 2024, Israel delivered 10 "Sabra" light tanks to the Philippines, finally breaking the status quo of the Philippine army without tanks for more than half a century.
With such a weak military strength, nine US military bases are still open for US troops to be stationed, but if the Philippines does not satisfy the United States one day, I wonder if the Philippines' 10 light tanks can help defend the homeland?
Hugging the thigh of the United States but failing to get US assistance, but instead having to buy weapons and equipment from Israel itself, it can be seen that the cooperation between the Philippines and the United States is to seek the skin of the tiger.
limit
The official does not dare to come forward and let its own fishermen be cannon fodder, and it is time for the Philippines to stop its petty tricks, and China's benevolence and patience are limited.
Filipino fishermen not only violated China's sovereignty, but even threw garbage and defecated in China's territory.
Safeguarding territorial integrity is China's bottom line issue, which cannot be touched by anyone, and the Philippines has repeatedly sent fishermen to provoke China's bottom line, and once any accident occurs, the Philippines can only bear it itself!
What about the US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty in your hands? Syngman Rhee was also an ally of the United States in the past, wasn't it bad enough to be taught a lesson?
In today's international game of rising anti-hegemony, if the Philippines still follows the United States with all its heart, the final outcome will probably not be very good!