Introduction
The Philippines three arrows together, on the Yellow Rock Island, the railway reef, the Sandin Reef rely not to go!
After five days of struggle, the Philippine 3003 ship crashed into a Chinese ship, and the Chinese side finally exploded, performing a water cannon "tracking war" in the South China Sea, defending national sovereignty and maritime rights and interests with practical actions.
Tonnage and trajectory do not lie
When the first ringing metal friction sounded near the South China Sea railway reef, no one would have thought it was more than a collision.
Until the morning of October 12, the 21559 ships of the Chinese Maritime Police and the official ship 3003 of the Philippine Fisheries Administration had been entangled in the waters for five days.
The background of the incident is far more complicated than the waves on the sea, and just recently, the typhoon "Galaxy" just ravaged Lu Song Island, the northern region of the Philippines is busy with disaster relief. And in the non-distant sea, the artillery of the Mefi "Heroic Shield 2025" joint exercise was heard at the ear. At such a moment, a seemingly accidental friction, in fact, has long been repeatedly burned by various forces.
The question is, when the Philippines took the lead in sending pictures and texts through social media, shouting "We were hit", why did the initiative change hands dramatically in just a few hours? The answer lies in both sides' ability to understand and control the word "evidence".
At the first scene of the conflict, the laws of physics and untampered electronic data constituted the most primitive and hard-core evidence. Who is lying? The tonnage and sailing trajectory of the ship are clearly remembered.
The Philippine side obviously wanted to create a “evidence vacuum” with their ship 3003 quietly shutting off the ship’s automatic identification system and all the evacuation equipment before the collision. This “hidden” behavior, in itself, is a huge question.
And our response was to turn each other’s move into a proof.High-definition cameras from the air, boat side, bridge and other angles, faithfully recorded all of the opponent’s performances.The data showed that just three minutes before the collision, that only 35 meters long, less than 200 tons, the speed of the Philippine small boat, from eight to 14 sections.
Subsequently, it suddenly made an extremely unprofessional sudden turn from the left back of the Chinese naval guard boat to the right, crashing with its own head to the middle of the left corner of our 2159 boat. This crazy move, which was directed by the International Maritime Analysis Platform, was highly likely to "proactively make contact".
The traces left by the collision also became silent witnesses. Only the guardrails on our coast guard boat were deformed, while the side of the Philippine ship No. 3003 was significantly sunken, and the chimney was also deformed by the subsequent suppression of water cannons. Physics does not lie. It is clear at a glance who is the impactor and who is the victim.
Even more dramatic, after the collision, another Philippine official ship, the 3002, along with the ship 3003, had a bad appearance, and immediately dropped his head and escaped the scene with the fastest possible speed.
Rashomon under the camera
The Philippine Coast Guard Gen. Taryera acted extremely quickly, and shortly after the incident, he posted on social media pictures of the damaged Philippine ship, accompanied by carefully designed texts, referring directly to "Chinese marine police deliberately crashed into the ship and water cannon attack", trying to seize the moral highlands for the first time, shaping himself as a "victim" of protecting the rights and interests of Chinese fishermen in the day of the typhoon.
China's counterattack was three hours late, but the first was Wang. The Chinese Maritime Police Administration did not publish too much text rendering through official channels, but instead directly threw out a complete, high-definition, multidimensional video evidence. The global viewpoint of the air, the collision moment recorded on the side of the ship, the calm disposal of the bridge personnel, each camera was speaking.
In the video, you can clearly hear our side through international channels, broadcast radio warning in Chinese and English bilingual cycle 17 times, asking the other ship immediately leave China's jurisdictional waters. The Philippine vessels are not aware of this, I still go my way. This iron certificate like a mountain, instantly crushed the image of the "victim" fabricated by the Philippines.
The balance of public opinion quickly reversed. The Philippines '"sad card" not only failed to gain much international support, but also attracted doubts at home. Some lawmakers publicly criticized the government and questioned why they did not want to prioritize disaster relief when people in the north were suffering from typhoon disasters, but instead spent resources to provoke people in the South China Sea, suspecting that they were diverting domestic conflicts.
While most ASEAN countries have also chosen silence, Malaysia and Indonesia and other countries have made it clear that they hope to solve the problem through dialogue and not stand on the sidelines between the great powers.
Help you can't call
Any front-end impulse, behind it often has some expectation for the back-end owner. The Philippines this adventure in the iron reef, obviously also through a more geopolitical settlement, but unfortunately they seem to take the wrong script, overestimating the "allied" promise.
Their biggest strategic misjudgment may have been hoping that the ongoing “Heroic Shield 2025” joint military exercise could support themselves, and even fantasizing that it could trigger the Mefi Joint Defense Treaty.
However, reality poured a bucket of cold water on them. When the collision occurred, an American ship was in the sea about 100 nautical miles away, but it maintained a wait-and-see attitude throughout the process and showed no sign of intervention. Afterwards, although the U.S. State Department verbally condemned China's actions as "dangerous", it chose to avoid discussing the most critical issue of the US-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty.
This “over-the-wall” attitude clearly sets a bottom line: the United States is willing to support the Philippines, but will never drag itself into an unnecessary direct conflict for its reckless provocation.
Another deep-seated plot of the Philippines was completely shattered by China's quick and professional on-site disposal. Tiexian Reef is only 4.5 kilometers away from Zhongye Island, which was illegally occupied by the Philippines, and a large reef can be exposed at low tide.
The Philippines probably wants to replicate the "sitting on the beach" model used in Renai Reef, "damage" ships by creating collisions, and then rely on Tiexian Reef to form a new fait accompli, but they underestimate the determination and ability of the Chinese Coast Guard.
From the launch of the water cannon suppression, to the movement of the nearby fast boat to the surrounding, the entire site disposal process was announced in just 15 minutes. The Philippine vessels under strong pressure, there was no chance at all to stay, only to evacuate asleep.
Subsequently, Chinese personnel directly climbed the iron reef, cleaned the garbage on the reef and showed a bright five-star red flag.This series of actions not only declared the complete failure of the Philippine "touch ceramics" strategy, but also took the opportunity to raise China's normalized control of the iron reef to a new level.
conclusion
This clash of iron reefs, beginning with a sound of friction, ends with a silent upgrade of control. The whole process is reversed, seemingly dramatic, and every step of reality runs on the track of strength and wisdom.
It clearly reveals one fact: in today's era of frequent conflicts in the "grey area", speculation that relies solely on creating friction, hyping public opinion and fantasizing about external interference is becoming increasingly unworkable. The ability to control the entire chain and multi-dimensional "evidence"-whether physical, public opinion or strategic-has become a core element in safeguarding one's own rights and interests and winning the initiative in the game.
The event also awakened all stakeholders around the South China Sea that any attempt to change the status quo through small actions could eventually move the stone to knock their feet. Return to the track of dialogue and negotiation, and look directly at history and law, may be the only way to this ocean to lasting peace and stability.