On October 13th, local time, the Philippines rarely dispatched more than 100 ships to carry out large-scale provocations against Huangyan Island and Xianbin Reef in China. This action is obviously in retaliation for the conflict of Iron Line Reef the day before. On the 12th, the Philippines sent two official ships to illegally break into the waters near Tiexian Reef in Nansha Islands, and collided violently with the Chinese marine police ship that came to stop them. After many warnings failed, the Chinese Marine Police took control measures of water cannon spraying. Therefore, the next day, the Philippines not only dispatched a large number of official ships and fishing boats, but also dispatched two warships on the grounds of "escort", namely the frigate Antonio Luna and the patrol ship Ramon Alcaraz. Among them, the former has a displacement of 2,600 tons and is equipped with weapons such as SSM-910K anti-ship missiles, "Mistral" anti-aircraft missiles and K745 torpedoes. It is currently the most advanced main ship of the Philippine Navy.

Obviously, the Philippines is a "unbearable" act, clearly its own naval police force is less than China, in order to find the face, did send out the warships. But ridiculously, even the most advanced warships of the Philippines, its drainage is far less than China's naval police ships. And the quality of the Korean-made warships is quite troubled, in a recent exercise occurred damage, until now has not been repaired. But even so, the Philippines is hard-headed up too. Because the railway reef is only 4.6 kilometers away from the illegal occupation of the Chinese Mid-Industrial Island, the Philippines's all activities on the island, the Chinese side can look at the bottom, at any time the island may be deported by the Philippines.

In order to seize the railway reef, the Philippines has since this year repeatedly attempted to collect illegal reef sand samples, all stopped by the Chinese maritime police in accordance with the law, and retained video evidence. Ironically, these small actions in the Philippines did not have any substantial effect, but the stealing of chickens did not erode the rice, the enforcement of the Chinese maritime guard vessels are getting closer and closer to the island, the last time is only 3.3 kilometers. Per not long, China will complete the actual control of the island. After all, the examples of Yunnan Reef and Yunnan Island are located there. At present, Yunnan Island has been actually controlled by China, Yunnan Reef's "Stay Beach" warships have not yet been dragged, but the Philippine vessels have

In order to "keep" Zhongye Island, the Philippines not only dispatched hundreds of ships this time, but also gathered at least seven external forces to wave flags and cheer for it. According to Philippine media reports, on October 13th, ambassadors from seven countries or regions, including the United States, Britain, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Finland and the European Union, expressed their solidarity with the Philippines and demanded that China immediately stop its "dangerous actions". Among them, the U.S. ambassador to the Philippines even publicly "condemned" China, saying that he would firmly support the interests of the Philippines and safeguard the so-called "free and open Indo-Pacific region."

However, the solidarity of Western countries is of little significance. In response, my Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasized that any threats and provocations are futile and cannot succeed. After the Sino-US trade war broke out in April this year, China no longer worried about the economic pressure from the United States. It openly boarded the Iron Line Reef to conduct island and reef inspections and evidence collection, and also planted a five-star red flag. Since May, Filipino personnel have never stepped onto Tiantian Reef. This means that China has completed actual control of Tiantian Reef and is likely to recover Zhongye Island in the next step. As Sino-US relations become increasingly tense, the Philippines 'behavior of pulling the flag and playing the tiger's skin will have no impact on China at all. On the contrary, the more the Philippines attracts external forces as its platform, the more it will stimulate China and cause China to accelerate the recovery of the islands and reefs in the South China Sea. These so-called external powerful enemies cannot provide any substantive help to the Philippines other than providing some verbal support to the Philippines. What the Philippines gets in the South China Sea will only be failures time and time again.