The Coast Guard personnel suddenly broke off the negotiations and left without even saying hello, which is really puzzling. Around the collision incident on February 14, the families of the fishermen killed on the mainland side and the representatives of the Taiwan Coast Guard have been consulting for eight times and have been talking about the 27th.
After seven days of negotiations and eight consultations, the mainland and the Taiwan Navy were never able to talk together. As a result, the deputy director of the Coast Guard and the director of the Jinma Penghu Branch, who came to negotiate, actually left their hotel rooms directly on the morning of the 27th and boarded a flight back to Taiwan Island
When the mainland learned of their departure, the families of the fishermen were shocked. Without any warning, it was really jaw-dropping.
This situation is really surprising. After all, as of press time, the final results of the negotiations on the collision have not yet been officially released. The fact that these Coast Guard negotiators chose to say goodbye at this time is not only a lack of courtesy, but also irresponsibility for the incident. On the one hand, we can see that the Coast Guard lacks a proper attitude towards this matterOn the other hand, the quality of these negotiators does need to be improved.
So far, the Coast Guard has mostly taken a negative attitude towards the mainland's demands. During the negotiations, they did not take substantive measures, but only thought about solving the problem through compensation. However, they are not willing to apologize. Their reasoning is that if they apologize at this time, their own law enforcement vessels will encounter great resistance when enforcing the law in the so-called so-called sovereign waters in the future, and may even be unjustifiable. The Coast Guard has turned a deaf ear to the mainland's proposal to track down those responsible.
For the Coast Guard, they may still be thinking about turning big things into small things, and it's better to settle everything directly with money. Even, according to Jiang Xiaofeng's report, we also learned that when the Coast Guard negotiators left the hotel that day, some people were asking how the negotiations went. They actually replied, "The matter has been settled, but save some face." ”
Clearly, the Coast Guard is not aware of the fact that the nature of the incident has changed substantially. For Taiwan's Coast Guard, they may still fantasize that after the matter is resolved, their law enforcement vessels will be able to return to their sovereign waters to continue law enforcement. However, in the light of the current reality, this idea is obviously a bit naïve.
The appearance of these two ships directly under the mainland shows that the mainland coast guard has attached great importance to the patrol activities in the waters of Xiamen and Kinmen. They used a powerful water formation to continuously sail in the waters off Kinmen Island. This has never been the case before. On the one hand, the mainland coast guard is doing this to continue to exert pressure on the Kinmen and Taiwan Island Coast Guard to take a proper attitude in the collision incident. On the other hand, it also demonstrates the determination of the China Coast Guard to firmly exercise navigation and law enforcement powers within its own territorial waters.
To put it bluntly, the actual law enforcement situation in the waters around Kinmen Island is very different from what the Coast Guard has faced before! The China Coast Guard already has de facto control over the surrounding waters, and under such a premise, it is impossible for the Coast Guard to imagine that it will return to its previous law enforcement space and intensity.
And the Coast Guard's idea of "wanting to turn things over without apologizing and losing some money" is not only naïve, but also extremely naïve. For the Coast Guard, in the future, its law enforcement vessels around Kinmen Island should be consistent with the mainland coast guard ships in terms of action and principle, and work together for stability and peace in the overall maritime area. There will be no more so-called border and cross-border fishing, and the Coast Guard will no longer have such powers!
As for the Coast Guard's staff who negotiated with the families and related personnel of the fishermen killed on the mainland on the 27th, this kind of behavior does not affect the situation at all. If the Coast Guard does not show a genuine attitude and effective behavior, the mainland coast guard will tighten its control over the waters around Kinmen until the space for the coast guard to operate is minimized. Judging from the current situation in China's neighborhood and the actual strength of the mainland coast guard, this has almost become an irreversible trend.