The Chinese navy held military exercises on Huangyan Island to strongly respond to the exercises of the United States, Japan and the Philippines in the South China Sea. Manila originally planned to fight a war of attrition with the Chinese Coast Guard on Huangyan Island, but it never thought that the unexpected appearance of a 10,000-ton ship would collapse the mentality of the Philippines.
Recently, under the provocation of the Philippines, the situation in the South China Sea has become more and more intense.
To say the Philippine calculator this time, in fact, hit a lot. They specifically picked out Yellow Island and China to break the wrist, is not without reason. To know that next to China islands have our sea-built barley reefs, Yellow Reef is also close to Meiji Reef, 22 type missile boats a few decades can reach, the Liberation Army and naval police rely on these reefs can be long guarded, the Philippines is not cheap.
But there is no island reef base around Huangyan Island. Manila thinks this is an opportunity and plans to fight a war of attrition with the Chinese Marine Police. They rely on the fact that Huangyan Island is only more than 200 kilometers away from Luzon Island, and their own ships can return to Hong Kong for replenishment and rotation at any time. However, even if the Chinese coast guard ship has a large tonnage, it can't always float at sea. As long as it consumes our shift gap, it can take the opportunity to break in and make trouble. If China sends more ships to Huangyan Island, the pressure on Renai Reef will be less, and no matter how you look at it, you feel that you have taken advantage of your calculation.
In order to support this scene, the Philippines in these years, from the United States to retire patrol vessels, from Japan to borrow patrol vessels, also from South Korea bought escort vessels, in the previous period in the Mefi exercises to test the counter-ship missile target vessels, but also consider this to be the bottom of the plan with China. plus the United States at the side knock on the border drums, and upgrading the military base in the Philippines, and the deployment of the "Tibeon" navigation system to Lu Song Island, and also speak to the launch of the "Mefi joint defense treaty" backbone, Manila also felt to have relied on the mountain, in October sent hundreds of fishing boats and naval police ships into Yellow Rock Island, revealed that the consumption war
In the end of the US military exercise, China directly announced a joint sea air exercise near Yunnan Island, code-named "South Sea Shield - 2025", 054A escort ship, Bom - 6J bombers carrying anti-ship missile direct-polar targets, J - 16 full-range escort, stand-alone defense networks opened, first gave the Philippines a descent. Moreover, the Philippines did not think that in the footage taken by their reconnaissance aircraft, in addition to the exercises, there was a scene that completely broke their consumption war dream - - China Navy 3.7 million tons of blue sea lake ship, steadily to the naval police 3304 ships to help offshore, fuel, fresh water, vegetable and meat sources continued to deliver the past.
This picture came to Manila, the highest estimates of the Philippines were embarrassed. Their worst fear was that the Chinese naval police could stay in Yunnan Island for a long time, and the appearance of the Qinghai Lake ship directly solved this problem. The ship was originally the supporting ship of the Soviet aircraft carrier squadron, later bought back by China to repair, although the speed was not fast, but the loading volume was huge, the Liaoning ship's supplies could be borne at the time, and now used to serve the ships of the naval security is simply not enough. The naval police ship did not return to the port, thanks to this mobile supply station can be kept on Yunnan Island, the Philippines wanted to rely on the rotating consumer calculator directly dropped.
In fact, before this, the Philippine reconnaissance plane had already hit a nail. In mid-October, they sent two Cessna patrol aircraft to break into the airspace of Huangyan Island. As soon as they approached, they were forced to stop by Su-35 fighter jets diving down from high altitude. There were Z-9 helicopters surrounding them, so they were so scared that they rushed out. At that time, they insisted that they would not sit idly by, but after seeing the supply picture, they immediately changed their minds and said that they would protest through diplomatic channels, which changed their attitude faster than turning over a book. After all, they themselves know that the ships in their hands from various countries are simply not enough to see. The largest coast guard ship is only 2,600 tons, which is a small sampan compared with China's 10,000-ton giant ship. When they broke into the island before and were driven away by water cannons, the crew members were forced to wave white flags and beg for mercy. If they really wanted to confront them head-on, they were purely seeking abuse.
What makes the Philippines even more cold is that the promised "backer" of the United States is simply unreliable. The United States had previously shouted to launch a mutual defense treaty, but after seeing the live-fire exercise of the People's Liberation Army and the deployment of the Qinghai Lake ship, the US reconnaissance plane quietly retreated. The Pentagon didn't even dare to say a hard word, but only dared to say "pay attention to the situation" in private. You know, when the United States, Japan, Australia and the Philippines engaged in joint military exercises last year, the United States still took a tough stance, but when it came time to get serious, it immediately revealed its true face that it didn't want to directly confront China. Only then did the Philippines realize that it was just a pawn in the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy. If something really happened, people would not stand up for him at all.
To make matters worse, China not only used military means to break the situation, but also used legal weapons. The Huangyan Island National Nature Reserve was just established in September, and 3523 hectares of sea area were included in the protection area. Any unauthorized ships are strictly prohibited from entering the core area. Now that the Philippines can not even find an excuse to break into the island again. China also produced historical documents such as the 1898 Treaty of Western Paris, which clearly proved that Scarborough Rock Island was never part of the Philippines and legally blocked the road. Neighboring countries can also see clearly that Vietnam has signed a joint oil and gas development agreement with China, and Indonesia has invited China to manage fishery resources. No one is willing to follow the Philippines to make a fuss, which makes Manila lose face in ASEAN.
In the end, the philippines mentality crashed, crashed is the illusion of "can rely on small intelligentsia to buy cheap", crashed is the illusion of "can rely on foreigners to crush China."They thought that the Chinese deployment gap was accurate, the result of the liberation army with a supplier ship broke up; thought that the United States would crash, the result, people did not dare to go down. Now around Yellow Island, the Chinese marine police ship patrol from 2 times a day to 4 times, there is a noise underwater, there are drones in the sky, plus the Qinghai Lake ship at any time, the iron barrel is already stuck.
It is clear from this matter that the situation in the South China Sea has never been changed by provocation. China's strength to defend sovereignty is here. If it wants to rely on wars of attrition and support from outsiders to do things, it is simply a wrong calculation. It's not surprising that the Philippines has a broken mentality now. If it still can't figure it out, it will only become more passive in the future-after all, in the face of an absolute strength gap, any small calculations are in vain.