The U.S. military finally took action to "retaliate" against China for the Philippines, but this means and result made the Philippines not happy at all, because it was too inferior.
On June 26, Yuyuan Tantian uploaded a video in which the Chinese Coast Guard was cruising the waters near Ren'ai Jiao in the South China Sea, when suddenly, a U.S. military plane flew through the sky and dropped an unidentified object over the South China Sea. So the Chinese coast guard immediately went to the location of the unidentified object and salvaged it out of the sea. After fishing up, it was found that this was a submarine detection equipment, and we could find from the picture in the video that the battery of this equipment was marked with specific information about the product, according to which it can be known that this submarine detection equipment came from a well-known military equipment manufacturer in the United States.
Normally, this kind of special espionage equipment will not mark information on any of the parts inside, revealing information about the equipment manufacturer, equipment performance, etc., but the United States has not had any intention in marking the information in such a grand manner, and also dropping this spy equipment into the South China Sea in front of the Chinese coast guard?
If it is not because the US military is so arrogant in dropping spy equipment, it is not because of a lack of heart, then there is only one possibility, which is deliberately provoking China and venting anger for the Philippines.
After the incident, the attitude of the Philippines was repeated repeatedly, one time to clarify for China, and the other time to say that it would never give in, which shows that the Philippines is extremely humiliated and wants revenge, but because of the difference in strength, it does not dare to act, and can only hope that the United States will take action, so the attitude of the Philippines changes with the toughness of the United States.
A few days ago, in an interview with Fox News, a U.S. diplomat proposed to the Biden administration that the United States should not only send troops to help the Philippines escort ships, but if necessary, directly help the Philippines build permanent structures on "beached" broken ships, and send troops to drive away nearby Chinese ships.
These words are quite tough, but in the face of countless precedents of just talking and not doing, these words can no longer fool the Philippines, so the US military dispatched military planes to drop spy equipment on Ren'ai Jiao in front of the Chinese coast guard, and it is very likely that it is using the actual action of provoking China to prove the reliability of the United States to the Philippines.
But to be honest, this method not only does not work, but instead exposes flaws.
The United States has long used media and public opinion to publicize that China is an "intruder" and a "security threat", but now there are videos to prove that the United States is blatantly carrying out espionage activities around China, and it is clear at a glance who is the "intruder" and who is the "threat".
In addition, the spy equipment released by the United States this time has leaked the information of the manufacturer that provides spy services for the US military, so next, China can launch a sanctions counterattack against this manufacturer.
Therefore, this round of "retaliation" by the United States not only does not have China in China, but I am afraid it will also make the Philippines even more discouraged.