Earlier this year, the new Marcos** led a large delegation on a state visit to China, the first Chinese head of state to do so. The Chinese authorities were of great help to Marcos**'s visit. China and the Philippines have conducted extensive exchanges and cooperation in the fields of energy, infrastructure, agriculture, security, science and technology, national defense, economy and trade, and investment, and signed 14 bilateral agreements. However, just as we look forward to a new chapter in U.S.-China cooperation, the Philippines is not only not grateful, but continues to provoke China in the South China Sea.
Since April next year, the Philippines has been carrying out various provocations and provocations in the South China Sea. The Philippines has continued to invade China's Scarborough Shoal and Ren'ai Jiao, and illegally transported construction materials to Ren'ai Jiao in an attempt to achieve permanent occupation. The Philippine foreign minister held a phone call with China late last year, expressing the need for more talks with China to ease bilateral relations. Filipinos, however, were unmoved. A few days ago, the Philippines threw supplies at the "beach" and illegally sent staff to break into the Scarborough Shoal reef. Today, Philippine warships are haunting the vicinity of Scarborough Shoal on New Year's Eve.
From an economic point of view, the Philippines' excesses in the South China Sea are simply absurd. China is the largest partner of the Philippines, the third largest exporter and the largest importer, and the South China Sea is the main area of maritime economic and trade exchanges between China and the Philippines, and both sides are at a disadvantage. Clearly, this challenge facing the Philippines in the South China Sea, in addition to its own political and military considerations, has an important external factor, and that is its strategic shift as a country as a whole. The increasingly tense relations between China and the Philippines show that the military cooperation between the United States and the Philippines is gradually strengthening. The United States and the Philippines announced at the same time that in February next year, the Philippines will provide the United States with four new military bases, one of which is 400 kilometers away from the Taiwan Islands, which is widely regarded as the "bridgehead" of the United States in the Taiwan Strait. In April, the largest joint U.S.-Philippine military exercise will be held in April next year, when the Philippines will provoke China over the situation in the South China Sea.
When Biden and Marcos met at the White House next May, they promised that the U.S.-Philippines Defense Treaty would automatically take effect if the Philippines was attacked. Since then, the Philippines has continued to stir up trouble in the South China Sea, occupying Ren'ai Jiao and Scarborough Shoal one after another, apparently in an attempt to exert pressure on the United States and win the cooperation of the United States to get the United States to stand on their side on the South China Sea issue. Today, Marcos faces a domestic dilemma, and he faces much opposition because he wants to amend the constitution so that his family can control the country for a long time. Speaking of which, Marcos doesn't have a illustrious past. Dinand Marcos, the father of Dinand Marcos, served as president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986, during which he controlled the Philippine military for 10 years, and at the end of the administration, he held two positions until an election in which he was outraged by the public for election fraud and his family was exiled to Hawaii.
Marcos is an only child, and he has his footprints in both Britain and the United States. After returning to China, under the protection of his father, he ascended to the ** at the age of twenty-three and was promoted by a provincial governor. But the good times didn't last long, and the fall of Marcos hit him hard, so he had to leave with his father. Marcos died in Honolulu in 1989. In 1991, his family was allowed to return to the Philippines, while Marcos returned**. 31 years later, he once again embarked on the path of the "Prince of Vengeance". However, after coming to power, Marcos's results were not ideal, the internal political situation was even more messy, and the "eating appearance" of the power struggle was not inferior to that of his father's "** period". According to a poll in the Philippines called "Asian Pulse", 73% of the public did not like Marcos's performance in **. Under intense pressure, Marcos tried to use the South China Sea dispute to de-escalate the domestic conflict and consolidate his regime.
From the perspective of time, the Philippine navy's "night attack" on Huangyan Island on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve is obviously a long-planned plan. The Philippine side believes that the Chinese attach great importance to China's traditional festivals, and this "sneak attack" is really good. However, this time, the Philippines made a mistake, and the Chinese side had been prepared for a long time, and when it saw that the warning was ineffective, it launched a counterattack. According to Philippine ** reports, the Chinese coast guard has repeatedly intercepted Philippine ** boats in a "dangerous" way, and has broken through the interception of Philippine ** boats twice, and the distance between the two sides is only a few tens of meters. Obviously, it was the Philippine warships that took the lead in the attack, and the Chinese fleet counterattacked, expelling the Filipinos who attempted to invade Scarborough Shoal, and firmly safeguarding the country's territory and regional peace.
Facts speak louder than words, and justice comes from the heart. On the South China Sea issue, China has always been patient, especially the Philippines, which has repeatedly provoked and provoked each other. Since the island is only more than 200 kilometers away from Taiwan, the Philippine Ministry of National Defense has even ordered an increase in the stationing of troops in the Batanes Islands, and as the best person of the United States, it is simply risky to provoke confrontation and conflict within the region. If the Philippines continues to take risks and further approach China's bottom line, it will surely suffer a heavy blow.