According to a recent disclosure by the Philippine media, the Philippine military has had a fierce exchange of fire with the so-called rebel groups in the country, and at least 10 members of the rebel armed groups have been killed. The strength of the Philippine military is already very limited, and once the Philippine Navy, Air Force, or Army combat forces are greatly contained, then the Philippines will not be able to continue to make calls in the South China Sea. In recent years, the Philippines has played a very disgraceful role in the issue of Ren'ai Jiao in the South China Sea, and some time ago, the Western Military Region of the Philippines also led the rotation and supply of Ren'ai Jiao in the South China Sea, but such rotation and supply were also directly intercepted by the mainland coast guard.
Although the Philippines has previously pointed out that the confrontation incident at Ren'ai Jiao in the South China Sea was a misunderstanding, and at the same time claimed that this incident was not enough to use the joint defense treaty between the United States and the Philippines, but soon the Philippines changed its tune, in addition to declaring that the Philippines would continue to resupply the Sierra Madre tank landing ship, the Philippines also repeatedly released its clamor for China. The war research believes that with the outbreak of conflict in the Philippines now, and such conflicts are likely to continue in the future, then the Philippines simply does not have the ability and energy to continue to argue with the PLA.
Some time ago, the PLA's Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer Dalian had already interspersed with the Philippines, and in addition to three Type 055 destroyers in the South China Sea, they continued to carry out military exercises. The dispatch of the Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer should be watched by the Philippines, after all, the single-ship combat strength of such surface ships may have surpassed the combat strength of surface ships in the Philippines as a whole.
Although the United States has conducted a number of joint military exercises with the Philippines in the past period, in fact, the United States has maintained a wait-and-watch attitude at critical moments, and it can be seen from the dynamics of the US military's nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that the USS Roosevelt nuclear-powered aircraft carrier has appeared in the East China Sea to conduct joint military exercises with Japan and South Korea, and this military exercise is also aimed at injecting a boost into Japan and South Korea to deal with the hypersonic missiles of the countries of the Northeast Asian Peninsula. In the past, U.S. aircraft carriers have been hovering in the South China Sea, and the Philippines believes that this aircraft carrier can support Philippine operations in the South China Sea.
Although the United States still has F-35 stealth fighters deployed in the Philippines and has carried out many operations in the South China Sea, in fact, these F-35 stealth fighters only dropped GBU series laser-guided bombs in the process of anti-ship strikes, and this kind of laser-guided bombs can hardly pose any threat to the PLA's air defense destroyers. Now that there is a crisis in the Philippines, but it still has to make waves on the South China Sea issue, the War Research Institute believes that the PLA will also laugh and say nothing, because the Philippines has been restrained by a lot of strength, and the Philippines should first solve its own domestic problems. Text/Iris