The South China Sea has been my country's inherent territory since ancient times. There is no doubt about this, but in 2020, with the outbreak of the new crown epidemic all over the world, the calm South China Sea has become a "fighting arena" for multiple forces! This is not over yet. As recently as May 2021, the Indo-Pacific alliance led by the United States has successively voiced its intention to come to my country's South China Sea to "see the scenery".
This can't help but remind us of what happened five years ago. It was also led by the United States. They sent two aircraft carrier formations with the "little brother" Philippines to show off their might in the South China Sea. I believe that many netizens have heard of this matter, but they will never imagine how serious the situation is. At that time, the tension between China and the United States almost led to war! So what happened at that time, and how did the final smoke calm down?
To understand the full picture of this confrontation, we have to start with the location of the incident - the South China Sea. The waters of the South China Sea and the surrounding islands and reefs have been my country's inherent territory since the Tang Dynasty. The developed maritime trade in the Song Dynasty sailed from the South China Sea to the West. Drive a huge fleet to travel around the world here. But in modern times, as the ignorant Qing government closed the country, the maritime undertaking of China suffered a heavy blow. The repeated defeats in the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War and the Eight-Power Allied Forces' War of Invading China made China's maritime power even more powerful. It was so stagnant that during the liberation war period, most of our military ships were wooden ships and sailing ships , which were not even worse than the large aircraft carriers fleets of the United States and Japan.
After the founding of New China, the situation has not improved much. Fortunately, our country has devoted most of its energy to the development of missile and nuclear weapon , from November 5, 1960 to April 24, 1970 During Japan, China successfully detonated two bombs and launched one satellite. Although such a feat has rapidly improved our "long dust-covered" international status and got rid of the nuclear pressure of the United States and the Soviet Union, marine security has not yet been resolved. It also makes a small country like the Philippines have an opportunity.
1978 The Philippine government relied on "the sky is high and the emperor is far away" that China's maritime power is not enough to "intervene" in the South China Sea affairs, disregarding the historical truth, constantly blurring the South China Sea issue at home and abroad, and writing Nansha Islands belongs to the Philippines In the legal provisions, it successively occupied eight islands and reefs that belonged to China. In 1999, it even parked a dilapidated ship on the Ren'ai Reef to "declare" its sovereignty. After learning about the Philippine side's behavior, the Chinese side, based on the concept of peaceful coexistence, did not want to trigger a conflict over the already tense situation in the South China Sea, so it hoped to resolve it through negotiation. policy. After seeing China's goodwill, the Philippines could not do anything out of the ordinary for a while. After all, the Philippines' tourism and fruit export industries still rely on China, so the South China Sea issue has calmed down for the time being.
But in the 21st century, with the maturity of various marine exploration technologies, countries have successively discovered inexhaustible energy minerals in the South China Sea. Years of Filipinos are just about to move, and a hungry wolf smells and chases after him. This wolf is the United States!
At that time, China was completely out of sight of the United States. The strategic focus of the United States was on Middle East . However, due to the deep quagmire of Afghanistan war, Kosovo war , Iraq war , domestic and international The 2008 financial crisis caused its economy to decline sharply, and the US's world hegemony has been shaken in recent years.
What about China? Due to the demographic dividend and the huge economic volume, China has suffered much less trauma from the economic crisis than other countries. Even earthquakes and snow disasters failed to overwhelm our beliefs. In 2008 and 2010, our country also held the The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo have amazed the whole world, and more and more countries find our country and hope for a win-win situation. Not only Russia, a big country in the military industry, such as Russia and Ukraine, which is close to us, has successively launched all-round cooperation with China, but even Europe, the former hard-core ally of the United States, has also adopted a political and economic separation attitude towards China after this. In terms of economic and trade exchanges, China is now grasping both the economy and the military. Coupled with the energy and minerals discovered in the South China Sea, it is not impossible for us to take off in an all-round way, and it is not impossible to restore the international status of the Han and Tang dynasties.
But because of this, the United States began to regard China as a threat. For a time, the American high-level group fell into Thucydides' trap and was very afraid that China would surpass the United States to become the new world hegemon in the future.So they began to think frantically about the policy of sanctioning China. The Russian side has not dealt with the United States and cannot listen to his words. The European side "cuts people's financial paths like killing parents". Once they force Europe to cut off economic cooperation with China , then the consequences are unimaginable, so the United States has set its sights on the coast of the South China Sea. They urgently need to find a spokesperson in the neighboring countries of the South China Sea to help them suppress China within the coastline. Since World War II, it has been its confidant. The Philippines is naturally the best candidate.
After some operation and communication, the Philippines quickly fell into the embrace of the US government and became the "pawn" of its South China Sea policy. On April 8, 2012, under the delegation of the Philippine government, its navy fleet stopped an innocent Chinese fishing vessel , saying that the fishermen on board had entered their territorial waters for illegal fishing. The first time I learned the news, the "China Haijian No. 75" and "China Haijian No. 84" formations were immediately dispatched to the disputed area to rescue Chinese fishermen.
I thought it was just a misunderstanding. The fishery officials of our country hoped to persuade the Philippine side to back down, but they didn't listen at all. The United States "backed up" and held an joint military exercise in our country's waters in an attempt to scare us, but China is still China decades ago, and our maritime power has developed, can't beat the United States? Are you a little Filipino? China is indeed a big country that yearns for peace, but it does not mean that we are willing to be bullied! With everyone unwilling to make concessions, the two sides have been deadlocked in this sea area for more than two months.
The Philippines and the United States did not expect China to be so tough, so they decided to overwhelm China from the international public opinion aspect. On March 26, 2013, under the influence of the United States, the Philippines unilaterally The South China Sea dispute has been submitted to the International Court of Justice (the informal Hague International Court), and has to use "so-called laws" to arbitrate the ownership of the South China Sea . Of course, China will not pay attention to such absurd actions. After all, no one will agree to file a lawsuit with the neighbors who come to ask for their own land, but the Philippines and the United States have not given up. They are frantically bombarding China in international public opinion. Regardless of the evidence we have presented, there is no historical basis for insisting that the Nansha Islands belong to China.
This matter has been dragged on and off like this. Seeing that China refuses to pay attention to the arbitration, in March 2016, the Philippines opened a military base in its own waters, allowing the Pacific Fleet of the United States to intervene in the South China Sea affairs. This is the scene in which the American generals clamored for war with China as mentioned in the opening paragraph. In July 2016, the results of the arbitration were released, and the court created by the United States and the Philippines naturally awarded the Nansha Islands to the Philippines. In response to such a result, even and the United Nations said that this arbitration has no legal effect, let alone China, and we still stably occupy the islands and reefs of the South China Sea. Faced with such a situation, the U.S. government decisively increased its troops and dispatched two aircraft carrier fleets to enter the South China Sea in an attempt to deter China with force and force China to submit.
You must know that the United States is not to scare people. They have already put on a fighting stance and they are all the most elite fleets in the United States. So why did this confrontation end?
This is because although the United States has a strong navy, they have perfectly inherited the maritime dominance of the Empire on which the Sun Never Sets since World War II. To this day, no country dares to say that it can beat them, but South China Sea affairs are China's core interests. , once a concession will mean that China will be ridiculed internationally, so we will never take a step back.
In addition, I have said before that my country's maritime power is no longer what it was decades ago. In the face of such a situation, The Chinese government immediately dispatched the Lanzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Shenyang, Yuncheng ships , Sanya ship, Suqian ship, Luzhou ship , almost all the main ships and underwater strategic nuclear submarines, as well as dozens of fighter jets with strong combat effectiveness, including fighter 11, bombardment six , even "Dongfeng Express" is ready. The Party Central Committee also dispatched four members, , general , to take command, and the meaning expressed is very clear. As long as you dare to take a step forward, we will risk our lives to keep you here!
For a country like the United States that is unwilling to harm any of its own interests, it’s okay to support my younger brother. If it is true that they go to war with China, or even threaten the United States, they will most likely not do it, so it is China. Such a tough attitude of the government finally frightened the United States, resolved this very dangerous confrontation, and safeguarded the country's territorial integrity and national sovereignty.
Throughout history, China's maritime power has been the number one in the world since ancient times. It was not until modern times that it was stagnant under the rule of the corrupt and ignorant Qing government and the hedonistic national government .The establishment of New China completely changed this situation. Now we not only have countless warships , submarines , fighter jets, but also aircraft carriers that our predecessors could not have imagined, the Liaoning and Shandong ships have been successively Launched, the third aircraft carrier has also been put on the agenda. China is no longer the country that rowed wooden boats and sailboats at sea. It is still like that although we love peace, but who wants to destroy the current prosperity , we will definitely fight it to the end!
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