Recently, at the fourteenth "Chinese-Philippine-Manilla Forum" held in Manila, the Philippines, Gao Zhiqiqi, deputy director of the Global Thinking Center, delivered several high-energy speeches, and he said directly that China's surrounding neighbors can not compete with China, only the United States is a strategic opponent.
The first thing to say about the scale of the person, he is not an arbitrary gunman. Yale University Law Doctor, also took the status of a registered lawyer in the state of New York, in the early years as a translator of Deng Xiaoping's English, now is also the vice director of the global think tank, the director of the China Energy Security Institute. The Philippines would have respected this with American higher education background and understand the law experts, the chairman introduced his identity to report these backgrounds once again, is equal to not open the mouth, the next word of course more proportionate.
The most striking in the speech is two hard words: one is power, one is history, soft and hard are in the hand, the Philippines want to refute and can't find any foul. First to say power, he mentioned the nine-third parade of the East Wind - 61 intercontinental missiles, although the mouth says "there is a fuzzy component", but the deterrence in the word is not hidden. The missile is not blindly compiled, on September 3, 2025 on Amman Square, the 8 axis super-heavy transport vehicle was dragged away, the ammunition than the East Wind - 41 is still a thick circle. Military experts speculate it can reach 1.8 million kilometers, the end speed of more than 27 Mach, the existing anti-missile system can't stop at all, can carry 6 to 10 miss
His words are very true: It's useless to tell warmongers "peace-loving", they will only think you are soft, but if you show off the strength of the missile, the effect will be immediately different. This statement hit the nail on the head. The Philippines confronted China with water cannons in the South China Sea all day. Do you really think there is no more ruthless guy in China? Gao Zhikai directly pointed out that "we have something more deadly than water cannons." No one in the audience dared to answer the conversation. To put it bluntly, he was exposed to that little thought-he wanted to rub the situation of the United States to provoke trouble, but he was afraid that it would really make China anxious and not be able to close the show.
The hard-power deterrence is not enough, Gao Zhiqi also took the historical documents to the Philippines to write "dumb" and move directly out of the 1898 Treaty of the United States, and the subsequent Treaty of Washington, the Treaty of the United States, these three treaties clearly delineated the "Eastern Currency 118 degree line", said the western border of the Philippines. More seriously, he also pointed out that the maps published by the Philippines before 1990 recognized this line, but now ran to the line to the west to rob Yellow Island and occupy Yellow Island, is it not clearly illegal occupation?
The most important question was the question he asked: "If you don't recognize this line, then the Philippines will have no western border. We can go west, but why can't China go east?" As soon as these words came out, the audience was completely silent. Everyone understands that if the Philippines dares to deny the century-old agreed borders, it will first shake the legitimacy of its own territory. In the future, other countries will not have the confidence to speak up on border issues with it. This move is much more effective than simply cursing in the street. It uses the basis that the other party once admitted to hit the other party in the face, so that the Philippines has no place to talk if it wants to be a scoundrel.
This is not the first time that this method is used, before Gaozhi Kai in the Indian media interview mentioned "Hang Rong Line", and this "118 Degree Line" strange collaboration, are all dig each other's recognized historical basis, dismantle their sovereign narrative. before China always waited for others to contempt and react, such as the Philippines shouted "Hang Rong Island is theirs", we take historical evidence to reject, now actively hit, the other party's trousers scratched out, so that they can not stand from the root.
And this is not a single “single fight” for Cao Zhi Kay, since this year, a series of actions have been through this initiative. The Ministry of Defense recently revealed that China and China have engaged in the “2+2” strategic dialogue mechanism of the Foreign Minister of Defense, also held the “Beijing Shandong Forum Pioneer”, drawing more than 30 national defense officials to talk about security governance. The Egyptian Air Force first joint training sent fighters, early warning crews to practice air combat, and peacekeeping forces are still performing tasks in more than 20 countries, these are actively building their own security cooperation circle, not just guarding their own doors.
Some people say that Gao Zhikai is a "war terror bureau", but in fact, which is simple intimidation? It is to explain the truth in the most straightforward way: peace is not sought, but protected by strength. You tell countries that can't understand the truth, and they won't listen, but when you throw the missile range and historical treaties in front of you, they will understand what a "red line that can't be touched" is. Just as the United States clearly needs China's rare earths and medicines, and it has to insist on increasing tariffs, China is the same now. It's not that it has no temper, but it used to be too lazy to argue with small players. Now it takes the initiative to show the bottom line, that is, it tells those countries that jump around: Don't take China's restraint as weakness.
The Philippine officials were sitting and not talking, and confident that the door was clear in their hearts.The United States itself was defeated by the East Wind - 61 such weapons formed strategic deterrence, how could it be for the Philippine Reef, Yellow Island and Chinese real knife?Gokushka provoked this, is to break their fantasies.
To put it clearly, this high-ranking game is “using power to tell the rules”, neither proactively challenging nor afraid of things. You want to talk well, China has a historical basis to tell you the facts; you want to engage in provocation, China has strategic weapons for you to draw the bottom line. From Gao Jiang Kai’s speech to the country’s series of actions, they are passing a signal: China’s role in global security is becoming more and more critical, not the soft tomatoes that anyone wants to pinch. Those countries that still want to jump in the middle, do not wake up, sooner or later have to touch a nose ashes.