Since the title of the article: Confrontation in the South China Sea: The United States plays word games, and the Philippines suffers a heavy setback On December 10, the Philippines forcibly intruded into the territorial waters of China's Ren'ai Jiao.
This time, China has taken tough measures, especially the collision and water cannon spraying of Philippine ships by coast guard ships, resulting in the damage of 75% of Philippine ships. This is an unprecedented event.
Today's headlines are original and exclusively released on the whole network. The Philippine side was devastated, apparently not expecting our country to treat them so hard.
Subsequently, the Philippines immediately complained to our country that our methods were too crude and interfered with their so-called normal supply activities.
At the same time, the United States has also come forward to endorse the Philippines, accusing our actions of exacerbating tensions in the South China Sea.
However, our spokesman refuted the accusations of the United States on the 11th. He clearly pointed out that the reason why the Philippines dares to make frequent provocations is mainly due to the instigation and support of the United States behind the scenes.
However, the contradictions between China and the Philippines are issues between the two countries and have nothing to do with any third party. He made it clear that it is actually the United States that is driving the tensions in the South China Sea.
Although the United States has shown solidarity with the Philippines this time, it has played with words more shrewdly. They emphasized their hardcore alliance with the Philippines and said the U.S.-Philippines mutual defense treaty remained in force.
This statement has a reassuring effect on the Philippines, at least to show that the United States still supports the Philippines and does not worry too much. However, the United States used one word when describing the events -"Encounters", watering down our country's ramming of the Philippine ship and water cannon spraying into one"Encounters", thus changing the nature of the event.
In this way, the United States perfectly bypassed the mutual defense treaty with the Philippines. Although it was only a word changed, it was realized"Mouths but hands", no substantial support was provided.
This move by the Americans may have come as a surprise to the Philippines, because didn't it say that the United States would intervene as long as the Philippines was attacked?
What do you do now? In fact, for the United States, the handling of the incident in the South China Sea is very sensible. The reason why they have strengthened their relations with the Philippines is that they have taken a fancy to the role of the Philippines in restricting China's development in the South China Sea.
The United States needs to strengthen its military presence in the Philippines and surrounding areas to monitor and suppress our country's development and rise. By inciting contradictions between the Philippines and China over the South China Sea, the United States has exploited regional tensions, which are only part of their strategic layout.
In the eyes of the United States, the Philippines is just a pawn on a chessboard. The game between major powers involves a wide range of issues, and the United States will not change its entire strategic layout because of an unimportant chess piece, still less will it overturn the entire chessboard for this chess piece.
Therefore, it is not as important for the Philippines to recognize its position in the US strategy as it thinks. It is quite naïve to try to use the South China Sea issue to contain the United States from taking action and confronting China.
The so-called mutual defense treaty was established only on the premise that the United States had an absolute superiority in strength, and when the two sides were evenly matched, or even when the other side surpassed itself in some areas, such a treaty was nothing more than a psychological comfort. The United States played with words, perfectly circumvented the conditions for the activation of the mutual defense treaty, and skillfully safeguarded its own interests.
In short, the incident in the South China Sea once again highlights the United States' calculating efforts on the South China Sea issue.