During this period, the Philippines joined hands with the United States to make more and more trouble in the South China Sea, and China immediately gathered maritime forces and responded with actual combat drills and live ammunition. However, after the incident, Admiral Grady, vice chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made another extremely arrogant statement, claiming that "the United States will continue to conduct operations in international waters in accordance with international law, including the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait."
Obviously, the United States has a showdown, and even if China responds by force, the United States will still not give up, that is, it will openly and openly announce to the outside world that the United States will continue to do things in China's neighborhood, and it will not be easy for anyone to do it, and I still abide by international law, and you China cannot do anything to me.
It's hard to imagine that a country can be so brazen and give full play to it. But then again, this kind of sophistry of the United States has indeed limited China's play. In response to the actions of the US military in the surrounding waters, China can respond Xi actual combat exercises, and can gather forces to drive away, but there is no better way.
These methods are useful to other countries, because other countries "want face" and do not dare to be too arrogant. But it is useless only for the United States, because as I just said, the United States has a showdown, and what stands out is a "shameless", China drove away from the United States today, and the United States will continue to provoke China tomorrow. 
So what now?It is not that China cannot tear its face with the United States, but it must divide the time, pay attention to maximizing interests, and have the greatest impact on the United States at the lowest cost. As the saying goes, one trigger moves the whole body, and the United States wishes that we would fight now, so under the great power game, China still has to maintain its strategic focus.
However, I think China's three recent actions are very clever, and I have directly changed my thinking, bypassing the "dogskin plaster" of the United States, and planning to solve the Philippines first. The first action was two days ago, when our Foreign Minister Wang Yi paid an official visit to Vietnam.
In Hanoi, he met with Vietnamese Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son. During the meeting, Foreign Minister Wang Yi went straight to the point, saying that China and Vietnam share the same destiny and that the two countries have close high-level exchanges and frequent visits. Moreover, China and Vietnam are both socialist countries, so it is natural that relations between China and Vietnam should be ahead of other countries, and they should also work together to promote peace and stability.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's remarks were very level. As a major country in the world, China has personally visited Vietnam at a high-level level and praised Sino-Vietnamese relations to the skyAgainst the backdrop of increasingly close relations between the two countries, Vietnam can only follow China's attitude and work with China to stabilize the situation in the South China Sea.
In the South China Sea, the two biggest "thorns" are Vietnam and the Philippines. Now that Vietnam is not making trouble, but the Philippines is doing things, isn't this contradiction immediately highlighted? Moreover, if the situation escalates and China is forced to intervene and deal with the Philippines, this is not only to stabilize the South China Sea, but also to solve the troubles for ASEAN. The name is justified and the division is famous, and China is targeting the Philippines.
This is a diplomatic move, and it is also the key to the attack on the Philippines. At the same time, you must have heard that 135 Chinese fishing boats, which took shelter in the oxbow reef, are still lying on their stomachs. You may not understand the deep meaning, but the greatest possibility is that China is going to start reclamation and island building, and if it wants to carry out large-scale development of the Nansha Islands, it is still aimed at the Philippines. This is the second action.
The third action, after the first round of actual combat Xi, China once again drew a no-sail zone in the South China Sea, and the United States does not want to continue to make trouble around ChinaThen China will accompany to the end, and see who has a hard fist and who can outperform whom. At the same time, this is also a warning to the Philippines that in the fight between China and the United States, the Philippines had better be less involved.
In short, this line of thinking is better at the moment. After all, the game between China and the United States is a protracted war, but between China and the Philippines, there is no such thing as a protracted war.