According to a report from the South China Morning Post on January 2, China has gradually increased the deployment of civilian and military forces in Diaoyu Islands in recent years, and these gradually increasing forces have made it difficult for Japan to cope. Japan Coast Guard began to report the number of China's coast guard boats patrolling the Diaoyu Islands in 2008. According to the initial report, the number of China's coast guard boats near the Diaoyu Islands does not exceed 10 each year. However, this situation was not until 2012. After Japan announced that it would nationalize the Diaoyu Islands in September of 2009, it changed.
Since then, the number of Chinese ships cruising the Diaoyu Islands has skyrocketed. In the months from the nationalization of the Diaoyu Islands announced in September to the end of 2012, China dispatched 428 maritime police ships to cruise adjacent to the Diaoyu Islands. Sea area.
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Here to explain the adjacent sea area, as everyone knows that the territorial sea is 12 nautical miles wide, and the adjacent sea area extends from 12 nautical miles to 12 nautical miles. This is the place closest to the territorial sea, and one step forward is the territorial sea. The contiguous zone is not fully sovereign. All countries can navigate freely, but the coastal state has certain jurisdiction and law enforcement power over the contiguous zone. In other words, whoever owns the Diaoyu Islands can cruise and enforce the law in the contiguous zone. Japan's private nationalization of the Diaoyu Islands means that Japan has to control the jurisdiction and law enforcement powers here. However, our country's ship frequently patrols here for law enforcement, which is equivalent to giving Japan a slap, preventing Japan from actually controlling this place, thus turning the nationalization of Japan's self-directed and self-performed into a farce.
In the six years since 2012, the average number of ships patrolling the Diaoyu Islands each year in my country has reached 720, and patrol enforcement in the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands has become the norm. In 2020, this number has increased to 1,157 ships, which is more than 115 times of 2008 and 2.7 times of 2012. This means that we are stepping up to recover the Diaoyu Islands.
my country's power to cruise the Diaoyu Islands does not only come from the sea,There is still air. The Ministry of Defense of Japan announced in March: In the past year, Japanese fighters responded to the 638 cruises of Chinese fighters. In July, the Japanese media reported that due to the frequent dispatch of Chinese military aircraft, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force’s attendance rate increased significantly, and its fighters had to fly over East China Sea every day. This is far beyond the normal scope of Japanese military aircraft's duty. The pilots are very tired due to long hours of duty. Moreover, due to frequent lift-offs, the fighters are not adequately maintained, resulting in a significant increase in maintenance costs.
According to the report published by the US Think Tank, the number of aircraft used to cruise the Diaoyu Islands in my country is currently five or six times that of Japan, and the quality is also superior. Ours are all cutting-edge fighters, most of which are recent Many of the Japanese fighters have been in service for more than 20 years. They are aging and are now overused. It can be said that their fighters are overwhelmed, and there are fewer and fewer aircraft that can take off normally. No, let alone those Japanese pilots.
The number and tonnage of maritime police ships used to cruise the Diaoyu Islands in my country are far more than those of Japan. In 2013, the number and tonnage of Japan's coast guard boats were still dominant. Since 2014, it has been reversed. By 2015, my country's number was almost twice that of Japan, and the average tonnage exceeded Japan. In 2019, the Japan Coast Guard had compared it. Japan has only 67 maritime police ships of 1,000 tons or more, while China has 145 ships, and the gap is still widening. At present, my country is also equipped with two maritime police ships with a displacement of 12,000 tons, the maritime police 2901 and the maritime police 3901, equipped with a 76 mm rapid-fire gun, two secondary guns, two 12.7 mm machine guns, and can also carry two The straight 8 helicopter is called a "monster" by the Japanese media.
Japan currently has no official ships exceeding 10,000 tons, and we have far surpassed Japan in terms of quantity and quality. According to Japanese observations, my country’s coastal police ships usually cruise the Diaoyu Islands in formations of four.There are often planes patrolling in the air, and the air and the sea form a three-dimensional patrol. In addition, my country has also issued the "Maritime Police Law," which provides legal protection for cruising the Diaoyu Islands and has the right to fire. Once illegal intruders are discovered, they can be fired and expelled. Japanese media said that this is aimed at Japan.
According to the above information, my country has adopted a new strategy for the Diaoyu Islands since September 2012: relying on powerful resources, continuously dispatching ships and aircraft to cruise the Diaoyu Islands, through quantitative and qualitative Advantages make Japan overwhelmed; from the beginning of patrolling the contiguous zone to entering the territorial waters, it has continuously compressed and expelled the space for Japan's activities in the Diaoyu Islands, and eventually forced Japan to withdraw from the Diaoyu Islands, making Japan default to the fact that China has regained the Diaoyu Islands.
This new strategy gives people the feeling of "a soldier without a fight". The Diaoyu Islands can be recovered and developed without war. Although the time required is relatively long, it is much less risky and much more rewarding than direct means of war.
So far, this new strategy has achieved very good results. It can be seen from the normalized cruise of the Chinese Coast Guard in the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands that we have already occupied an absolute advantage in the Diaoyu Islands; through the promulgation of the "Maritime Police Law", it can be seen that the next step is to completely control the Diaoyu Islands and recover the Diaoyu Islands. I believe that it will not take long for the Diaoyu Islands to be completely recovered by us!
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