With the support of United States and NATO's gradual involvement in the Asia-Pacific region, Japan is emboldened to continue to directly and closely launch provocations against the Chinese Navy.
Why is Japan doing this? Could it be that he thought that he was too slow to "do something first", and was in a hurry to follow Abe and the commander of Lieutenant General Yuichi Sakamoto to the bottom of the sea to see Amaterasu?
Actually, no, yes, it's because these Japan people are too long to take the initiative and gain the initiative for themselves; No, it's because their United States daddy needs them to come forward as a proxy to compete with China, and the United States itself can hide behind and reap the benefits.
The Russia-Ukraine war has brought huge practical benefits to United States. NATO, which was once crumbling and facing an existential crisis, has miraculously been resurrected because of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
NATO has not only been resurrected, but it has also become more and more active, and it has also absorbed a few new countries that have taken the initiative to join NATO. You know, these countries used to believe in the principle of neutrality.
Just because of the Russian-Ukrainian war, they have felt an unprecedented crisis, and they don't care about neutrality or neutrality, so let's buy insurance for ourselves first.
This insurance is undoubtedly the revival of NATO.
Speaking of which, the proxy Ukraine Ke has become an unlucky child, and now NATO does not let it join at all, and even this NATO summit in United States, Ozawa was not invited to attend. You know, in the first days of the Russian-Ukrainian war, it was an unimaginable political mistake not to invite Ozawa to participate in the conference to be impassioned.
It's good now, the country is almost consumed, and he has become an outcast of NATO.
Through the Russian-Ukrainian war, the strength of European countries has been almost depleted, making them completely lose the opportunity and ability to wrestle with United States. For quite a long time to come, these European countries, especially NATO members, can only follow the lead of United States and act according to United States' wishes rather than their own needs.
Most importantly, through the Russian-Ukrainian war, Russia has been effectively consumed and trapped in Russia. And the United States munitions are constantly entering the Ukraine, and when the cannons are fired, there are 10,000 taels of gold.
Therefore, the Russian-Ukrainian war has allowed United States to regain control of the general trend in Europe through Ukraine, an honest agent.
Although there is no hope of an end to the Russia-Ukraine war now, the shadow of the next proxy war planned by United States is slowly emerging in the Asia-Pacific region.
As the first candidate agent launched by the United States, the Philippines has not been less involved in the South China Sea in recent years, what South China Sea arbitration, what warships are beached, coast guard ships are stranded, capable, the Philippines has done it, the knife is also on it, and it is almost a gun.
But why would the Philippines rather be beaten than gunned?
Quite simply, its strength and size are not enough, it is not a qualified United States agent, and it is okay to disgust China with a little trick, but it is not qualified to make the Philippines oppose China like Ukraine.
After so many years of tossing, why hasn't China gone on a killing spree against the Philippines? The fundamental reason for this is that it is not qualified to be China's opponent, at least it is not enough to even set an example for one opponent.
These tosses of the Philippines in the South China Sea are for China, but the sores of scabies will be solved with a knife and a potion.
The Philippines knows this, and the United States knows better.
So, the United States put forward another candidate agent, and that is Japan.
Whether it is size or military and economic strength, Japan has crushed the Philippines by several orders of magnitude, and Japan has a fight against China.
Don't forget, Japan has a psychological advantage over China militarily, after all, they committed many unforgivable heinous crimes in China in the past.
And these crimes, neither the Tokyo Trial nor any other trials, have been completely liquidated. This is also the reason why the militarist forces in Japan have always existed after the war and have always dared to call out China.
Japan felt that although they lost World War II, they were okay with China again.
And United States is also behind the scenes, openly and secretly giving the green light to Japan's "okay" boost, so that Japan can vigorously develop its military, of course, this development cannot be separated from the control of United States.
Now that United States has completed the containment of Russia in Europe, and the containment of China in Asia and China, it is time to draw a circle.
Japan, on the other hand, is most likely to be chosen by the United States as the pawn to test or provoke China first, that is, the role of a quasi-agent.
Japan, the reason why I willingly want to do the role of this agent is probably because I have taken the opportunity to get rid of the control of the United States and let myself be able to really "stand up" and talk to United States.
Therefore, when the Philippines could not play a proxy role in the South China Sea, the United States gave Japan a hint to let it get high first and compare it in front of China.
The 800-kilometer drive of the Japan destroyer Ryogetsu on 4 July from Japan to China's coast and forcibly intruding into the 12-nautical-mile territorial waters of Zhejiang, China, and staying for 20 minutes before reluctantly leaving, is the most direct way for Japan to test and stimulate China by violating its territorial waters, and to infer China's strategic determination from this.
On July 5, the day after the Japan Liangyue forcibly intruded into China's territorial waters military exercise area, the United States Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group also sent a destroyer to rush at the Chinese Navy's Shandong aircraft carrier battle group in the South China Sea.
Of course, if they dare to rush, we will dare to stop it, and the Chinese Navy's 0.55 million ton drive is not an ornament, and facing the United States destroyer is a forward rush and cross-cutting, which makes the US destroyer that has been "moving forward bravely" have to slow down and turn around.
After the United States played such a game in the South China Sea, on 9 July, when the Shandong aircraft carrier battle group reached 520 nautical miles southeast of the Miyako Strait, Japan's 6,000-ton DD-108 "Akebosake" Murayu-class destroyer, like the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer of United States, rushed towards the Shandong ship.
We are still the old way, you come and I will stop it, but this time it was not the 055 drive that was intercepted, but the Guilin 052D destroyer.
It was also a strong impact and cross-cut, which forcibly stopped the Japan destroyer outside the cordon.
Japan people must have won the approval of the United States beforehand by doing so, and they also knew that it was dangerous to do so, and it was likely to lead to an exchange of fire between the two sides.
But to be sure, this is exactly what the United States wants. Once the war begins, there will be no problem for Japan to consume China. At the same time, the United States has reason to launch sanctions against China no less than Russia in the same way that it besieged and sanctioned Russia in Europe.
In this way, the proxy wars planned United States the two hot spots in Europe and Asia can be fully realized.
However, our ultimate opponent can only be United States, not Japan.
Therefore, regardless of whether the Philippines or Japan, their provocations can only be provocations, and our strategic purpose requires that we will not easily open fire on the Philippines or Japan. If you want to start a fire, they will fire first, and then we will burn their house clean for them.
As long as they don't take the initiative to fire, we just have to wait for the United States to come down in person.