After hundreds of Philippine ships approached China's Scarborough Shoal, the Chinese side made two preparations this time to directly block the Philippine conspiracy.
Recently, the Philippines has planned another "big show"; in the past two days, the Philippine non-governmental organization "This is ours" has summoned a large number of fishermen to the waters around our Scarborough Shoal to make trouble, and the Philippine side claims that this move is to safeguard their "sovereignty" over Scarborough Shoal, and this time it will be three days.
The Philippine fleet consisted of five commercial fishing vessels and hundreds of fishing vessels, which carried not only members of the "This Is Ours" group, but also some foreign journalists and observers, and not only that, but the Philippine Coast Guard also sent three ships to escort the fleet.
It can also be seen from this that the "storming of Scarborough Shoal" was ostensibly initiated by the organization "This is ours", but in fact it was strongly supported by the Philippine government. Moreover, there is also the handiwork of the United States behind this. The so-called "civil society" in the Philippines has always been funded by American institutions.
Including the use of fishermen as "shields" to come to the South China Sea to touch porcelain and put on a show, the United States is making suggestions. In December, the group conducted a similar operation, transporting supplies to warships illegally "beached" at Second Thomas Shoal. Therefore, this operation is clearly a game jointly done by the United States and the Philippines. According to the Philippine side's plan, in addition to distributing a new round of supplies to the fishermen, they will also set up some buoys in the waters of Scarborough Shoal.
Of course, this is not the real purpose of their operation, these are just means to provoke and provoke China, force China to attack them, and then use public opinion to pour dirty water on China is their ultimate goal. But this time, China has already seen through the Philippines' mind, so it has made two preparations.
Before the Philippine operation, China had already carried out life-saving exercises in the waters off Scarborough Shoal, and not only that, but China also set up two floating barriers at the southeast entrance of the south entrance of the east coast. Seeing that China is waiting for China in the waters off Scarborough Shoal, the Philippines does not dare to directly break through this time.
Therefore, after the Philippine fleet arrived in the waters near Scarborough Shoal, they first sent an "advance team" consisting of four wooden-hulled fishing boats and a Philippine coast guard ship to approach Scarborough Shoal to test China. However, the Chinese side immediately dispatched two coast guard ships to drive away the Philippine "advance team".
According to the captain of one of the ships, the Chinese coast guard ship was only about 100 meters away from them recently, and the situation was already quite dangerous. Due to the strong interception of the Chinese coast guard vessel, they did not dare to move on, so they had to abandon the next step.
In the aftermath, the group also touted the "great success" of their mission. But China was also the first to announce the real situation at the scene. After approaching Scarborough Shoal to no avail, the Philippine "advance team" distributed supplies to Filipino fishermen 46-56 kilometers away from their destination.
Not only that, a large number of Filipino fishing boats put on a show 60 nautical miles away from Scarborough Shoal, and in addition to fishing operations, Philippine personnel also placed a number of orange buoys in the area, and some crew members waved Philippine flags and shouted "This is Philippine territory, China past."
But what the Philippines did not expect was that these were monitored and collected by the Chinese coast guard throughout the process. You must know that the Philippines has done a lot of things to put on a show, and this time I want to repeat the old tricks, release these carefully prepared "materials", and then declare that their mission is "successful", so that the public mistakenly thinks that the Philippine fleet has really arrived at Scarborough Shoal.
Therefore, this time, China also took the lead, not only filming the whole process of the Philippine show, but also taking the lead in making it public. In this way, there is no way for the Philippines to add fuel to the fire and make hype upside down. It can be seen that China has long been well aware of the current methods of the Philippines.
As a result, the Philippines will only have less and less room to maneuver in the South China Sea in the future.
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