Recently, China's Nansha Archipelago's Permafrost Reef near the coast has discovered an extremely endangered species of Confucius. Confucius is a national protection animal and is also a prototype of "beautiful fish" in fairy tales. It is that more than a month ago, Chinese inspectors in the Permafrost Reef discovered an abnormal, a "big fish" suddenly emerged from the sea surface and then disappeared.
Critically endangered species dugong
After tracking and monitoring for more than a month, Chinese personnel finally captured the image data of this "big fish" at close range. After expert identification, this is the dugong declared functionally extinct. This means that for the first time in nearly 30 years, dugongs have been confirmed to be active in Nansha Islands in China.
The sudden appearance of the "Mermaid" who declared "extinct" in the South China Sea is undoubtedly a direct "slap in the face" to the Philippines. For a long time, the Philippines has been one of the main culprits in destroying the ecological environment of the South China Sea. However, the Philippines has recently made a backlash, smearing China for "destroying the ecology of the South China Sea", and even making a big fuss to ask China to "compensate" 6.92 billion US dollars to "restore" the fragile marine ecosystem.
The story fabricated by the Philippines is quite different, claiming that a China fishing boat ran aground on Tiantian Reef and used a "parachute anchor" to destroy a large area of coral reefs. The "loss" this time alone reached US$192,000. However, the Philippines cannot produce any evidence at all, and the smear that fishing boats carry "parachute anchors" is untenable.
Philippine fishermen
Ironically, it is the Philippines that really damages the ecology of the South China Sea!First, the Chinese side is often caught by the Philippine fishermen in the South China Sea for destructive fishing, such as electric fish, explosive fish, etc. Second, the Philippine side not only illegally occupies our South China Sea island reefs, but also builds on them, even basic environmental protection facilities do not have, living sewage, garbage directly into the sea.
Earlier this year, the investigation report released by China exposed the illegal activities of the Philippines on our Zhongye Island, which caused serious damage to the coral reef ecosystem around Tiandi Reef. When China boarded Tiandi Reef to conduct investigation and evidence collection, it found residual plastic waste, wooden sticks and packaging paper with Philippine characters printed on it, and cleaned it up. It is clear at a glance who is destroying the marine ecology of the South China Sea.
Moreover, the Philippines' irresponsible remarks about the South China Sea are fundamentally untenable in legal terms. The South China Sea islands have been China's territory since ancient times, dating back to the Qin and Han Dynasties. After World War II, China officially recovered the Nansha Islands in accordance with the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Proclamation, and established sovereignty monuments in Fiery Cross Reef and other places.
Philippine warship illegally "sitting on the beach" kills coral
Regarding the history of the Philippines, according to the Treaty of Paris between the United States and Spain, the western boundary of the Philippine territory is the 118-degree east longitude line, and the Nansha Islands are all on the west side of the boundary, which has nothing to do with the Philippines. And after World War II, both Vietnam's official rhetoric and the Philippines' "Diplomatic White Paper" clearly recognized China's historic sovereignty over the South China Sea.
As a result, in 2013, in order to grab the island reef, the Aquino government turned its face and refused to admit its account, and made an illegal "South China Sea arbitration case". This kind of arbitration result, which was not even recognized by the United Nations, was used by the Philippine side as a "sword of Shangfang" every day. It really took chicken feathers as an arrow.
The discovery of dugongs on Fiery Cross Reef this time is not only a major discovery in the field of ecology, but also proved by facts: China has always taken the ecological protection of the South China Sea to heart, and China's island and reef construction and marine activities have always been carried out under the premise of protecting the ecology. On the other hand, in the Philippines, while shouting "protect the ecology", doing dirty things, and trying to control public opinion to turn black and white. This kind of little trick cannot deceive the international community at all.
Philippine President Marcos
Finally, it must be reiterated that the South China Sea Islands are an inalienable part of China's territory, which is a historical fact and clearly recognized by international law. No matter how the Philippines cooperates with external forces to hype up, no matter how they fabricate lies, they can only make fun of themselves.