According to the WeChat public account of the "Southern Theater", on September 28, the Southern Theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army organized naval and air forces to conduct reconnaissance and early warning, sea and air patrols and other routine exercises and training activities in the sea and air space near China's Huangyan Island.
Southern Theater of Operations
The background of the exercise is clear: some countries outside the region are disrupting the South China Sea and creating regional instability.
China has indisputable sovereignty over Scarborough Shoal and its adjacent waters, and the theater forces maintain a high degree of vigilance, resolutely defend national sovereignty, security and maritime rights and interests, and resolutely safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea.
The last time the Southern Theater organized a joint combat patrol in the sea and airspace near Scarborough Shoal was on 7 August. On that occasion, one NC-212 plane of the Philippine Air Force, in disregard of our warnings, illegally intruded into the airspace of Huangyan Island for training exercises.
Scarborough Shoal
Why is it that after more than a month, our army once again organized a drill and training activity in the waters off Huangyan Dao? On the one hand, it can be regarded as a "normalized" arrangement for our military's exercises and training in the South China Sea, and on the other hand, it can be said that the South China Sea is "stormy and turbulent," and the security level of Huangyan Island has risen sharply.
According to a report by the Associated Press on the 25th, two Philippine officials said on the same day that security officials in United States and the Philippines had agreed to deploy a set of United States "Typhon" medium-range missile systems in the northern Philippines "indefinitely".
This new land-based missile system can launch the "Standard-6" missile and the "Tomahawk" surface-to-surface cruise missile, with a range of 1,800 kilometers, and can cover the South China Sea and most of southern China. In April this year, the United States brought it into the Philippines through the annual US-Philippine "Solid Shield-24" joint military exercise and deployed it on Luzon Island, just 300 kilometers from Taiwan.
U.S. deploys Typhon systems
Samuel · Paparo, commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command, said on August 27 that United States ships "can escort Philippine ships on resupply missions in the South China Sea" and called it a "perfectly reasonable option." At the same time, the U.S. Indo-Pacific Headquarters issued a statement saying that the U.S. urges China to reconsider the use of dangerous, coercive and potentially escalating tactics in the South China Sea and beyond.
The Philippine coast guard ship 9701 had to be evacuated on September 15 after illegally staying at Sembin Reef for five months. Philippine National Security Adviser Eduardo · Arnaud said on September 20 that the Philippine Coast Guard intends to send a new ship to the disputed waters of the South China Sea in hopes of "establishing a permanent presence."
Philippine Coast Guard ship No. 9701
Also adding chaos to the South China Sea is the "quadrilateral mechanism" of the United States, Japan, India and Australia. On September 21, local time, the four-nation summit was held in United States. In a closed-door speech at the summit, Biden forgot to turn off the microphone: "China continues to behave aggressively and test us throughout the region." This is true in the South China Sea, the East China Sea, South Asia and the Taiwan Strait. ”
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian posted on X: The "Indo-Pacific Strategy" attempts to hype up the "China threat", build consensus on excluding China and containing China, and try to rally military and security cooperation with sea-related issues.
In the United States, with the Federal Reserve cutting interest rates, China launching favorable economic policies, international capital is optimistic about China, the dollar is returning, the RMB exchange rate is back to 6 times, and China's A stock market is rising rapidly, all of which has virtually intensified the fear of "China replacing United States", and the atmosphere of "China and the United States must have a war" is becoming stronger and stronger.
2024 All-Out Summit
At the "2024 All-In" summit in early September, United States international strategy gurus Mills · and Jeffrey · Sachs both believed that "China and the United States will eventually have a war." Millsheimer is that China will pursue hegemony as it becomes stronger, and then go to war with United States; Jeffrey Sachs believes that it is because China has to fight because United States has suppressed China to the limit.
The US Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of the Air Force have said on different occasions that they must be ready to fight against China in 2027 and hope that 80% of the troops will be on standby at any time and can act at the first order. If the country needs it, they can quickly deploy to carry out the mission. It's all about one goal: to contain China. Japanese media revealed that United States is implementing an operation called the "Engagement China Plan".
U.S. Secretary of the Navy
Since the resumption of the United States Congress on September 9, at least 25 China bills have been passed in a week, covering economic, political, and technological fields, including restarting new plans like the "China Initiative," further restricting Confucius Institutes in United States universities, trying to keep an eye on Chinese biotechnology, banning China's DJI drones, and assisting Taiwan in confronting Chinese mainland.
The 2024 China Military Power Report released by the United States National Defense Strategy Committee in August believes that United States' military superiority is facing the greatest threat and the most severe situation since the end of World War II. The longer it drags on, the less advantage the United States will have over China. United States hawkish think tanks are clamoring to launch a war against China before the window for United States' military superiority closes, so that it cannot overtake United States in the next decade.
U.S. arms sales to Taiwan
In the Taiwan Strait, after the United States announced a $228 million worth of arms sales to Taiwan in mid-September, the United States Government is planning to provide Taiwan with a new $567 million military aid. A U.S. P-8A POSEIDON PATROL PLANE CROSSED THE Taiwan STRAIT, HYPING UP THE SO-CALLED "United States COMMITMENT TO A FREE AND OPEN INDO-PACIFIC," WHILE ENCOURAGING GERMAN WARSHIPS AND JAPAN-AUSTRALIAN WARSHIPS TO CROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT.
All this clearly shows that the United States is vigorously stirring up trouble in China's neighborhood and causing war.
On the one hand, they have repeatedly said that the United States does not seek to fight a "new Cold War," does not seek to change China's system, does not seek to oppose China through strengthening the alliance system, does not support "Taiwan independence," and has no intention of clashing with China. On the one hand, it has "done everything" to suppress and contain China.
Wang Yi meets with Blinken
In this regard, when Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Blinken at the UN General Assembly, he pointed out the United States problems: the US cannot always face China with "two faces", while wantonly encircling and suppressing China, while talking and cooperating with China as if nothing happened.
Wang Yi elaborated on China's solemn position on the South China Sea issue and stressed that China is committed to resolving differences through dialogue and consultation with the countries directly concerned. The US should not always stir up trouble in the South China Sea and undermine the efforts of regional countries to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea.
Since the United States cannot listen to good words and persuasions, then we will speak in a language that the United States "understands," and this language is "strength."
China launches intercontinental missiles
On September 25, after 44 years, China once again launched an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean, the DF-31AG, with a range of 12,000 kilometers, the world is quiet, and the United States is kind: China informed the United States that this is a good thing and can reduce strategic miscalculation.
The Chinese Navy simultaneously deployed three aircraft carriers, the Liaoning, Shandong and Fujian, to the Philippine Sea, the South China Sea and the coast of Shanghai for exercises and sea trials. The US media exclaimed: "For the first time in history, all three Chinese aircraft carriers went to sea." ”
Yu Qingjiang, deputy commander of the Chinese Air Force, said on the 25th of September that at the 15th China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, the new fighters of the Air Force will make a public appearance. Netizens shouted in anticipation of the "water molecule" (boom 20).
Chinese aircraft carriers
From September 10 to 27, the Chinese and Russian militaries organized the "Northern Joint 2024 Exercise" in the relevant sea and air space of the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Holtzk, and the two sides sent 11 ships and 31 aircraft to participate in the exercise. After that, the warships of the two militaries went to the relevant waters of the Pacific Ocean to organize joint maritime patrols.
In mid-to-late September, China sent part of its Marine Corps to Brazil for the first time to participate in the multinational joint military exercise "Operation Fermose 2024". This is in the backyard of the United States.
On September 11, CCTV's comprehensive channel launched a high-profile TV feature film "Quenching", which reached more than 5.3 billion times on the whole network, disclosing for the first time the fruitful results of the army's combat readiness training and equipment construction.
In late September, China's multi-type fighters, helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicles, together with amphibious ships and ro-ro cargo ships loaded with ground troops, organized a joint anti-landing exercise in the waters near Dachengcheng in Dongshan, Fujian Province.
In addition, the Scarborough Shoal space patrol joint training activity is a declaration of action for the Chinese military to take the initiative to attack and speak with strength.
The warring side can make peace.
With regard to the Western powers, it is more effective to use military strength to "contain war and stop chaos" than to mediate negotiations.
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