Macoste Jr. in the Philippines recently accepted an exclusive interview with Japan, saying that Manila's diplomacy with Beijing is "going in a bad direction" and that "those countries facing the same situation as us should have a paradigm shift"!
This is also dragged into English, what is a "paradigm shift"?
Paradigm shift, also known as canonical shift, was first coined in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), one of the masterpieces of Thomas Samuel Kuhn, an American historian and philosopher of science.
The so-called "paradigm shift" originally refers to the emergence of new academic achievements in a field, breaking the original assumptions or laws, thus forcing people to make fundamental corrections to many basic theories of the discipline. For example, when it was discovered that the earth was round rather than flat, all previous understandings of the phenomena that occurred on the earth had to be reconsidered. In this way, the old paradigm (the horizon theory) is replaced by a new paradigm (the earth circle theory).
Actually, Marcos Jr. is a bit tricky about using this word, and the bull's head is not in the horse's mouth. To put it bluntly, Marcos Jr. is determined to abandon his predecessor Duterte's national policy of cooperation and reciprocity with China, and is willing to be a pawn in the strategy of the United States and Japan to contain China, forming gangs and factions to engage in confrontation with China, and is unwilling to consult, cooperate, and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results with China.
And this so-called "transfer" has been laid out since the day Marcos Jr. came to power.
Not only has it reopened five US military bases that had been recovered, but it has also intensified the cession of land and added four US military bases facing the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea, brazenly provoking China's core interests. On the one hand, it uses this to put pressure on China to bargain, and on the other hand, it actively colludes with anti-China forces outside the region, counting on the United States, Japan, Australia and other Western countries to escort their coveted South China Sea, so as to intimidate and deter China from defending its rights.
Second, it has gradually increased the density and intensity of encounters with China on the South China Sea, organized the dispatch of fishing boats to harass the Chinese side, and provided diesel fuel, fresh water, and food support to Philippine official ships. It can not only submit its name to the United States, but also transfer the people who are ineffective in the country to complain, or it can show the international community miserably: Look at China's bullying of our small country and widows!to influence and shake China's determination and will to defend its sovereignty and territorial waters, so as to achieve its strategic goal of surrendering the army without a fight.
Third, we need to lead ASEAN and China in confrontation from within. Vietnam has repeatedly taken the initiative to invite Vietnam to conduct separate consultations and cooperation on the South China Sea issue, in an attempt to set aside the discussion and consultation between China and ASEAN on the rules of the South China Sea, and to create a small circle and group to confront China within ASEAN. At the same time, the large-scale cooperation in the development of oil and gas around Scarborough Shoal and Ren'ai Jiao will not only decompose the risks of offending China and reap economic benefits, but also make its related sovereignty practical.
However, the exhaustion of the agency backfired.
China's will and actions to safeguard sovereignty over Ren'ai Jiao and Scarborough Shoal have become increasingly tough and resoluteComplaints in the Philippines have gradually risen, and the business community and the press have voiced doubtsAfter the United States, Japan, Australia and other ** flaunted their might, they quietly hid far behind;Vietnam, on the other hand, simply ignored and did not buy it, but reflexively opened a higher-level "community of shared future" with China.
Hasn't this slap woken up little Marcos, what are you still dreaming about?