Recently, everyone has maintained a high degree of attention on the South China Sea issue. On the one hand, it is because the Philippines acts as a thug of the United States and makes frequent moves in the South China Sea, not only sending official ships to rush into Ren'ai Jiao, but also the top general of the Philippine army sneaking aboard the beach**. On the other hand, as for the Ren'ai Jiao incident, especially the Philippine ship "Sierra Madre", which is about to disintegrate, there are a lot of moths, and everyone is angry, and we are anxious that our side will not take action enough.
However, if we want to talk about the South China Sea issue, there is actually another country that is worth bringing us in and talking about together, and that is Vietnam. As we all know, in recent times, China-Vietnam relations have reached a "new height", and in the words of foreign media, China-Vietnam relations have achieved a "qualitative leap". This kind of leap has made Western countries, especially the United States, blush.
In September this year, on the occasion of the anniversary of US-Vietnam relations, Biden made a special trip to Vietnam and successfully upgraded US-Vietnam relations to a "comprehensive strategic partnership". At that time, this news made foreign media seize the opportunity, not only hyping up the US-Vietnam relations by two levels in a row, and "at the same level" as China-Vietnam relations, but also calling this a "diplomatic victory" for the United States. However, it has only been three months of work, and the bad news has come, and Biden has worked in vain.
List of high-quality authors You must know that Vietnam can be said to be the second Philippines on their chessboard for the United States, and if it is used well, it can achieve greater results than the Philippines. It is even said that if Vietnam can be held back, it is equivalent to getting the "key" to enter the South China Sea, and the United States can get deeper into the South China Sea and suppress China. This is also the reason why the United States has gone to great lengths to establish good relations with Vietnam.
However, just when many people speculated whether Vietnam was going to be a grass on the wall and to fall to the United States, Biden, who was happily waiting for good things to be delivered to his door, probably did not expect that the news that was waiting for China and Vietnam was that Sino-Vietnamese relations had risen to a new level, and it was also a "China-Vietnam community with a shared future", which was an unattainable height. Compared with the United States, Marcos Jr. is a fidget.
Two recent articles published by the Philippines have exposed this uneasiness in their hearts. The first article is called "Compared with Vietnam, China is Quite Polite", and the second is "Vietnam, which is also a party to the South China Sea dispute, moves closer to China, but the Philippines demonizes China". I took a general look, from the title to the content of the article, in general, it is quite objective and neutral, which can be said to have said two fair words for the Chinese side, and also for themselves and Marcos Jr. **.
As for the specific content, in fact, it is very simple, that is, this kind of self-directed and self-staged farce of the Philippines will only make them a laughing stock of the world, especially when comparing the United States and the Philippines and China and Vietnam, the former listened to lies made by the United States and made the picture of the Philippine Coast Guard being driven out on the front page of the newspaper, and the latter was the first state visit to Vietnam by a Chinese leader in six years. This gap, I don't know what Marcos Jr.'s picture is?
I have to say that there are still a few people in the Philippines who understand. In fact, it is indeed reasonable for the Philippines to make such a comparison and raise such concerns. As they said, it is also a country in the South China Sea, a Yangguan Road and a single-plank bridge, and it is easy to see who is taking the right path.
In the early years, Vietnam, like the Philippines, had some disputes with us in the South China Sea, and even this year Vietnam has a dispute over the "nine-dash line" in the South China Sea. But after years of confrontation, Vietnam has clearly understood a truth, knows what should be prioritized, and also knows that it will not solve the problem by going head-to-head with China. Therefore, to date, Vietnam has made the right choice that is in line with its own interests and development trend, and has properly managed the friction in the South China Sea between China and Vietnam.
It can be said that Vietnam has not walked the road that the Philippines is taking, and it is precisely because it has gone through it that Vietnam can now clearly tell the Philippines that the road they want to take is destined to be unworkable. As we often say, "People teach people, but they can't."Teach people once." The Philippines really needs to listen to this lesson.