In 1999, the Philippines took advantage of the chaos to illegally park an old ** on China's Renaiqiao, which was more than 20 years, during which it repeatedly resupplied it despite China's opposition.
On March 5, the Philippines acted again, deliberately sending two supply ships and two coast guard ships to trespass into the waters adjacent to Ren'ai Jiao to deliver supplies to the "beach"** in order to continue its illegal occupation of Ren'ai Jiao.
In the face of such provocative acts, the China Coast Guard will not sit idly by and take control measures in accordance with the law, making temporary special arrangements for one of the vessels.
This is a lawful and compliant law enforcement action, and the China Coast Guard has demonstrated a humanitarian and great power pattern in the process of law enforcement.
Ren'ai Jiao is China's territory, and if it were not for factors such as relations with neighboring countries and the stability of the situation in the South China Sea, China has the right to directly tow the "beach"**
Regrettably, however, the Philippines has not respected the rationality and goodwill shown by China.
Knowingly, the Philippines not only ignored China's repeated warnings, but also violated international rules by deliberately ramming China's coast guard vessels on normal law enforcement routes, causing minor scratches but egregious accidents.
At present, our side has made solemn representations to the Philippines, and the China Coast Guard also pointed out that the Philippines has escalated the situation to the level of almost "paramilitary action", condemning the Philippines as "deliberately touching porcelain to cause trouble".
The Philippines has indeed regarded "touching porcelain" as a habitual method, and in 2023 alone, it has organized at least 14 operations to "sit on the beach"**, and this year it has carefully planned a large number of maritime militia ships to deliberately provoke and rush to provoke.
The Philippines distorted the facts and slandered China for "bullying the small with the big" by editing and piecing together the facts.
This time is no exception, the relevant Philippine departments claimed that the Chinese coast guard "water cannon" attack" on the Philippine vessel, injuring four members of its team, in order to use ** to hype up the "China threat theory" and deceive the international community to sympathy and support.
And we immediately announced the original ** to restore the truth.
Speaking of which, Philippine Ambassador to the United States Romualdez has also recently made a lot of nonsense to further hype up the conflict in the South China Sea.
He claimed that the South China Sea was a real "flashpoint", created a sense of tension, and labeled China as "invading other countries" and "economic coercion", thus drawing the "necessity" of the Philippines to woo the United States, Australia and other countries to contain China.
This is to portray itself as a "victim", smear China's "threat", and find a rational excuse for its move to win over allies and engage in bloc confrontation.
However, in the face of the fact that China is the largest partner of the Philippines, Romualdez's remarks are more like "being paranoid".
On March 3, the spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines issued six questions in a row to refute it, directly poking at the sore spot where the Philippines is the actual responsible party.
The spokesman also pointed out that if the Philippine side indulges in "luring wolves into the house", it will only inflate the situation in the region.
This "wolf" clearly has the presence of the United States.
In recent years, the United States has strengthened military cooperation by expanding the use of military bases in the Philippines through continuous operations. In addition to the military, there is also economic aid, and the United States has recently pledged to invest in it17 trillion pesos to counter the so-called "economic coercion" from China.
One of the important reasons for the United States' support for the Philippines is the regional strategy of the South China Sea.
Militarily described as the "throat of Asia," the South China Sea is extremely sensitive and delicate in the event of war, and China's vital interests are directly at stake.
The United States has stirred up the situation in the South China Sea and stirred up geopolitical conflicts through the Philippines' interference in China's Taiwan Strait and other issues, so as to suppress China.
It is worth mentioning that the Philippines seems to be cooperating with the United States to escalate tensions in the South China Sea, while holding high the banner of "peace" and sending a signal of détente.
On March 4, Marcos Marcos of the Philippines said at an event in Melbourne, Australia, that despite frequent frictions with China over the South China Sea, the Philippines still hopes to work with China to address the challenges facing the region through formal channels.
At the same time, he also clarified his position that establishing close relations with any country, including the United States, will not go beyond the Philippines' own national interests.
However, considering that Marcos ignored historical facts in his activities, he still insisted on so-called "maritime sovereignty" over the South China Sea.
and various actions since he took office, such as the increasingly frequent and aggressive adventurous behavior of the Philippines in the South China Sea, but quite aggressively tilted towards the United States, trying to reverse the promise to drag the "beach"** away ......
Marcos is not so much trying to substantively resolve the South China Sea issue as it is a political show, treating the bilateral consultation mechanism that should be valued as a "stopgap measure".
But the key point is that if the Philippines one-sidedly idealizes the US commitment and mistakenly believes that it can only "choose one of the two" between China and the United States, it will only exacerbate the instability in the Philippines' neighborhood and do itself no harm.