Chinese and US heads of the United States Bali After the meeting, relations between the two countries have rebounded, but some recent actions by the United States have disrupted this trend.
11 On November 29, the US missile cruiser "Chenslosville" came uninvited and illegally broke into the waters near China's Nansha Islands and Reefs. Such behavior is not a whim or accidental accident, but a long-term plan.
As early as January 12 this year, the United States released a report called "Ocean Boundaries" No. 15. The report denies China's legal claims in the South China Sea , opposes China's inclusion of four archipelagos in the South China Sea Dongsha, Xisha , Nansha , and Zhongsha in the territory, and does not recognize China's sovereignty and attempts to build a "South China Sea Rules" dominated by the United States.
Of course, China firmly opposes this and proves from many aspects that sovereignty over these archipelagos, condemning the US for deliberately distorting the historical situation and status quo of the South China Sea issue.
One plan cannot be achieved, another plan will be created.
So the United States has provoked relations between Southeast Asian countries and China, inciting it to compete with China for sovereignty on some islands in the South China Sea. Especially Philippines , which is a US military ally, allowing the US military to use military bases in the Philippines, and has maritime territorial disputes with China, such as Huangyan Island , Oxbow Reef , etc.
However, as time goes by, the Philippine government is more pragmatic today, emphasizing that shelves the dispute and strengthens economic cooperation with China. Therefore, when US Vice President Harris visited the Philippines and deliberately hyped the South China Sea issue, the Philippine president did not take the trap and refused to make remarks that were beneficial to the United States on the South China Sea issue.
In fact, as China's national strength becomes increasingly strong, Southeast Asian countries have gradually realized that following the United States to make trouble in the South China Sea will not have good results. It is better to strengthen economic cooperation with China. This is the main thing that benefits the country and the people.
At the China-ASEAN Leaders' Meeting on November 11, China highly praised ASEAN countries for their active consultations with China on the "Code of Conduct in the South China Sea", indicating that China and ASEAN are fully capable of handling the South China Sea issue well and do not need outsiders to intervene.
However, the United States will not give up until it achieves its goal. If it is too soft, then it will be hard. So the above-mentioned incident of the US warship trespassing the South China Sea.
For the US warships illegally breaking into the waters near the Nansha Islands and reefs and attempting to disrupt the South China Sea, China certainly would not be abusive to the United States letting it go, so it immediately organized naval and air forces to warn and drive it away.
The United States' intention is naturally not to have a military conflict with China in the South China Sea. It is mainly intentional hype, making trouble for China without any trouble, otherwise it would not have sent only one warship to provoke. Therefore, when our army organized forces to counterattack, the US warship had to leave with its tails stomped. A spokesperson for the Southern Theater Command said that China has sovereignty over the South China Sea islands and its nearby waters. This is an indisputable fact. The US military illegally broke into the country in the name of "freedom of navigation", which is another ironclad evidence for the United States to militarize the South China Sea.
1 Associate Professor Zheng Guangan of Nanjing University believes that after the meeting between the Chinese and US dollar leaders, relations between the two countries have recovered, but the US Navy recklessly broke into the South China Sea and tried to challenge China's sovereignty in the South China Sea, which will undermine the political mutual trust that China and the United States have finally accumulated.
In addition to sending warships to the South China Sea to disrupt the situation, the United States also did another thing on the same day.
htmlOn the 29th, the US Department of Defense released a China military power report, predicting that China may strengthen its strategic deterrence in the past 10 years and increase the number of nuclear warheads to 1,500, and plans to achieve this goal by 2035.
The US Department of Defense believes that after years of nuclear expansion, China currently has more than 400 nuclear warheads. If it continues to expand at this rate, it is expected to have 1,500 nuclear warheads within 10 years.
How many nuclear warheads China has is its own business, and the United States does not need to worry about it.
According to an announcement issued by the US State Department on September 30, the United States currently has 3,750 active nuclear warheads. If it is added to the retired ones, the number of nuclear warheads is as many as 5,550.
Even if China really has 1,500 nuclear warheads before 2035, there is still a big gap with the United States.
China's nuclear weapons are self-defense and are defensive "country-stricken artifacts". It has promised that they will not use nuclear weapons first and will not use nuclear weapons against nuclear-free countries. In addition, at the beginning of this year, China and Britain, France, the United States and Russia signed a joint statement, unanimously agreeing that nuclear war cannot be fought.
For China, nuclear weapons are a symbol of the strength of a major country and a trump card for defending national sovereignty. They mainly play a deterrent role and will generally not be used easily until the critical moment of life and death.
The United States is completely unfair to worry about China's hype about upgrading its nuclear power and increasing the number of nuclear warheads. If the United States does not take the initiative to launch an nuclear strike against China on , why worry about China's nuclear power upgrading?
The two unfriendly actions of the United States against China in one day seriously undermined the political mutual trust reached by the Chinese and US heads of state. What is the intention to do so?
Analysts believe that the United States does this not to provoke China in the military. After all, it is a consensus among all parties in the United States that do not seek to go to war with China. The main reason is that China's influence is getting bigger and bigger, which makes the anti-China forces in the United States feel uneasy. So they try to disrupt the situation in the South China Sea, provoke the relations between neighboring countries and China, amplify the differences between China and the United States, and force the Biden administration to return to the tough track against China.
However, China has long said that China and the United States will benefit both parties, and fight will hurt both parties. We advise some Americans to take care of themselves and not to be obsessed with the wrong path, which will eventually harm others and themselves.
