No more ship-grounding tricks will be allowed in South China Sea

[TaiShang]

No more ship-grounding tricks allowed in South China Sea
Source:Global Times
Published: 2016-3-2 22:36:01

The Chinese foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday that China had towed away a foreign ship that was grounded on Wufang Jiao in the South China Sea. For safety concerns, China urged nearby fishing ships to leave.

However, Philippine media and some Western reports rendered a different picture of the same affair, saying several Chinese ships were sent to patrol the surrounding waters after a Philippine boat was grounded, and "blocked" the waterway.

In their reports, Wufang Jiao and the surrounding waters are the Philippines' "traditional fishing grounds." Due to the blockage of Chinese vessels, Philippine fishermen could not go fishing, feeling they were being bullied by China.

This is not the first time a Philippine vessel was grounded on South China Sea islands and reefs. In 1999, the Philippines sent a warship and grounded it on Renai Reef. Manila kept promising to China that it would tow it away as soon as possible, but 17 years have passed, and Manila shamelessly broke its promise, delivering provisions to the ship and reinforcing its structure, in an attempt to make it a permanent stronghold.

In recent years, China has taken countermeasures to prevent Philippine ships conveying construction materials to the ship, but out of humanitarian consideration, China allowed the Philippines to deliver provisions to the crew. Now the ship, a focal point of Sino-Philippine tension, is in bad condition and about to fall apart.

China will never allow Wufang Jiao to be a second Renai Reef. Towing away the grounded Philippine ship is a once-and-for-all measure to leave no troubles behind.

The Philippines is untrustworthy in the international community, often resorting to dirty tricks to deal with diplomatic issues. What it did on Renai Reef is a vivid reflection.

China has been exercising self-restraint amid fishing disputes with the Philippines in the South China Sea. However, Manila has captured and sentenced Chinese fishermen several times, and even shot Taiwanese fishermen dead. Manila's barbarity finally triggered a standoff near Huangyan Island in 2012. Since then, China has been in full control of the island.

Now, Manila hopes it can bring US troops back, like a Mafia gangster asking their "godfather" for help. The Philippines, obviously aware that international arbitration has no jurisdiction over territorial disputes, filed a petition to an international court in Hague. China's non-participation in the arbitration is protected by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, but the Philippines, with the support of the US, has used this chance to taint China's image internationally

All these shenanigans cannot twist the fact that it is the Philippines that breaks its promises and makes troubles over and over again. China's countermeasures are reasonable.

China has overwhelming advantages against the Philippines, but its disputes with the Philippines in the South China Sea are complicated due to the West's bias for Manila. China should be resolute in defending its legitimate rights, and be wise in dealing with the West's prejudice and US military and diplomatic interventions.

In recent years, China has gained major progress in stemming the encroachment of the Philippines in the South China Sea. Beijing is regaining strategic initiative in the region. The Philippines will have a new president this year, and Benigno Aquino III will step down. After the shift in leadership, Manila will be a spent arrow, and will have nothing left in its bag of tricks.

@Chinese-Dragon , @Dungeness

 

[Dungeness]

China should learn to do a proper propaganda job. This article should have been out a week ago, right after Filipinos tried to make an issue out of nothing. When they will learn some tricks from CNN, BBC, or even RT? They have always been driven into the corner before fighting back, by then everyone in the world thinks China is the bad guy.

 

[xunzi]

I don't get why the Philippines are starting to become cunning and sneaky. They start to learn this from the Vietnamese, thinking that by crying to the world, somebody will come to help their scheme. Luckily we got none of that.

China should learn to do a proper propaganda job. This article should have been out a week ago, right after Filipinos tried to make an issue out of nothing. When they will learn some tricks from CNN, BBC, or even RT? They have always been driven into the corner before fighting back, by then everyone in the world thinks China is the bad guy.

This is an area we severely lacking. I partly blame this on the lack of communication between the foreign minister department, the Coast Guard department, and the media department. They need to better coordinate their response and communicate together better to get the information out as soon as possible. We live in the information age, a delay in information can be detrimental to national interest. Just look as the Philippine punking us in the global media is unacceptable. I propose we set up a live channel specially for monitoring and reporting the SCS issue.

 

[Guynextdoor2]

China should learn to do a proper propaganda job. This article should have been out a week ago, right after Filipinos tried to make an issue out of nothing. When they will learn some tricks from CNN, BBC, or even RT? They have always been driven into the corner before fighting back, by then everyone in the world thinks China is the bad guy.

'China' doesn't know propaganda?

 

[Dungeness]

'China' doesn't know propaganda?

They used to be very good at it, that is why you still have lots of Maoists in India. They are not good at propaganda now after the social media became a main source of information for young people, and they are especially bad at international PR.

 

[rott]

No more ship-grounding tricks allowed in South China Sea
Source:Global Times
Published: 2016-3-2 22:36:01

The Chinese foreign ministry confirmed Wednesday that China had towed away a foreign ship that was grounded on Wufang Jiao in the South China Sea. For safety concerns, China urged nearby fishing ships to leave.

However, Philippine media and some Western reports rendered a different picture of the same affair, saying several Chinese ships were sent to patrol the surrounding waters after a Philippine boat was grounded, and "blocked" the waterway.

In their reports, Wufang Jiao and the surrounding waters are the Philippines' "traditional fishing grounds." Due to the blockage of Chinese vessels, Philippine fishermen could not go fishing, feeling they were being bullied by China.

This is not the first time a Philippine vessel was grounded on South China Sea islands and reefs. In 1999, the Philippines sent a warship and grounded it on Renai Reef. Manila kept promising to China that it would tow it away as soon as possible, but 17 years have passed, and Manila shamelessly broke its promise, delivering provisions to the ship and reinforcing its structure, in an attempt to make it a permanent stronghold.

In recent years, China has taken countermeasures to prevent Philippine ships conveying construction materials to the ship, but out of humanitarian consideration, China allowed the Philippines to deliver provisions to the crew. Now the ship, a focal point of Sino-Philippine tension, is in bad condition and about to fall apart.

China will never allow Wufang Jiao to be a second Renai Reef. Towing away the grounded Philippine ship is a once-and-for-all measure to leave no troubles behind.

The Philippines is untrustworthy in the international community, often resorting to dirty tricks to deal with diplomatic issues. What it did on Renai Reef is a vivid reflection.

China has been exercising self-restraint amid fishing disputes with the Philippines in the South China Sea. However, Manila has captured and sentenced Chinese fishermen several times, and even shot Taiwanese fishermen dead. Manila's barbarity finally triggered a standoff near Huangyan Island in 2012. Since then, China has been in full control of the island.

Now, Manila hopes it can bring US troops back, like a Mafia gangster asking their "godfather" for help. The Philippines, obviously aware that international arbitration has no jurisdiction over territorial disputes, filed a petition to an international court in Hague. China's non-participation in the arbitration is protected by the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, but the Philippines, with the support of the US, has used this chance to taint China's image internationally

All these shenanigans cannot twist the fact that it is the Philippines that breaks its promises and makes troubles over and over again. China's countermeasures are reasonable.

China has overwhelming advantages against the Philippines, but its disputes with the Philippines in the South China Sea are complicated due to the West's bias for Manila. China should be resolute in defending its legitimate rights, and be wise in dealing with the West's prejudice and US military and diplomatic interventions.

In recent years, China has gained major progress in stemming the encroachment of the Philippines in the South China Sea. Beijing is regaining strategic initiative in the region. The Philippines will have a new president this year, and Benigno Aquino III will step down. After the shift in leadership, Manila will be a spent arrow, and will have nothing left in its bag of tricks.

@Chinese-Dragon , @Dungeness

Yep, I agree. Pinoys cry and spread shit about China. Here is one of their propaganda I found from the Times of India.

http://m.timesofindia.com/world/res...outh-China-Sea-atoll/articleshow/51222984.cms

The Indians have bought it.

 

[Rechoice]

in moving is OK.

http://www.defensenews.com/story/mi...e-group-deployed-to-south-china-sea/81270736/

 

[21stCentury]

Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on you, Philippines!

 

[TaiShang]

China should learn to do a proper propaganda job. This article should have been out a week ago, right after Filipinos tried to make an issue out of nothing. When they will learn some tricks from CNN, BBC, or even RT? They have always been driven into the corner before fighting back, by then everyone in the world thinks China is the bad guy.

China definitely needs state policy-aligned international corporate media in multi-language. No need to re-invent what has been invented; the West has been using similar tactics for ages; just tear off a few pages from their playbook and improvise. It is long overdue.

Fool me once shame on me, fool me twice shame on you, Philippines!

Nicely put. The Philippines' act gives China's counter-moves further legitimacy.

 

[Dungeness]

China definitely needs state policy-aligned international corporate media in multi-language. No need to re-invent what has been invented; the West has been using similar tactics for ages; just tear off a few pages from their playbook and improvise. It is long overdue.

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This is how bad China is on international PR.

I have been trying to find English version of 《100 mega projects in 13th 5-year plan》，but nowhere to be found. It tell the world what China is all about: Innovation, Science and Technologies, Research and Development, Infrastructural Building, Health Care, Quality of life...... For most of country, one of these mega projects would be good enough reason to cheer for the next 5 years, but China is doing 100 of them!

 

[HongWu002]

No more Pinoy allowed on planet Earth!

China's supreme rise will leave Philippines an irradiated wasteland!

 

[Aepsilons]

No more Pinoy allowed on planet Earth!

China's supreme rise will leave Philippines an irradiated wasteland!

I don't it's necessary to talk like this, my friend. China's national territorially can still be preserved without hostility. We should pay attention to the Filipino presidential election; many of the front runners in Manila seem to have broken away from the hallmark anti-Chinese politic of Aquino. For example Binay -- who is strongly affiliated with the Chinese Filipino Chamber of Commerce, as well as Filipinjin-NIkkeijin Kai, a Japanese-Filipino organization in the Philippines.

I believe that Binay will implement an equidistant policy in context to Beijing and Manila. Secondly he is also aligned to anti-American political forces in Manila. Expect new policies with Binay, who is a domestic patriot.

@HongWu002 , we must conjecture on a more realistic and progressive oriented praxis in regional cooperative dialectic . It should be emphasized that we encourage the dissemination of Neo-Tianxia, my friend.

 

[bbccdd1470]

I don't it's necessary to talk like this, my friend. China's national territorially can still be preserved without hostility. We should pay attention to the Filipino presidential election; many of the front runners in Manila seem to have broken away from the hallmark anti-Chinese politic of Aquino. For example Binay -- who is strongly affiliated with the Chinese Filipino Chamber of Commerce, as well as Filipinjin-NIkkeijin Kai, a Japanese-Filipino organization in the Philippines.

I believe that Binay will implement an equidistant policy in context to Beijing and Manila. Secondly he is also aligned to anti-American political forces in Manila. Expect new policies with Binay, who is a domestic patriot.

@HongWu002 , we must conjecture on a more realistic and progressive oriented praxis in regional cooperative dialectic . It should be emphasized that we encourage the dissemination of Neo-Tianxia, my friend.

This is good to hear that since Philippine is the last country in Asia wants to make trouble for China. When does Aquino III term end? cant wait to see how the general election turn out. By the way, I still have not heard any news about the the 5 nations joint exercise in SGS, but I guess no news is good news.

 

[Beidou2020]

China really needs to stop being so timid at everyone. It's a massive show of weakness.

Reform that garbage CCTV English so it can be more like RT.

 

[Aepsilons]

This is how bad China is on international PR.

I have been trying to find English version of 《100 mega projects in 13th 5-year plan》，but nowhere to be found. It tell the world what China is all about: Innovation, Science and Technologies, Research and Development, Infrastructural Building, Health Care, Quality of life...... For most of country, one of these mega projects would be good enough reason to cheer for the next 5 years, but China is doing 100 of them!

Despite the western media's portrayal of China as aggressive, we have to really appreciate how calm Beijing and Taipei have been. In fact we should appraise how Beijing's size has restrained Hanoi's own ambitions to the militarily weak position of Manila. I believe that if Beijing did not show military potency , and assertion, then Hanoi would have already taken more islands from the Philipines' in the Kalayaan. Absent of China, there would have already been contingency in the South China Sea.

Perhaps we should find repose in that China has acted with maturity and elegance by rising above petty trifles. Building in her own naval prowess and defense zones .

As for China's PR and Image abroad; it is developing. We must accept the fact that for most of China's modern history under the CPC, China has been internally focused with mandated domestic growth and land frontier security. It has only been recently that China pursues a more direct policy in her maritime frontier since it was only recently that she was able to build an effective naval force capable of projecting Chinese national interests in the East and South China Seas. This is a healthy and Normal evolution for the state and for the arm of the state; the PLAN, PLA, PLAAF.

As China develops further and as her military machine picks up momentum , we can expect an adjuvant development of her Public Image and international respect. As a challenger of US hegemonic position , it is only natural for Beijing to be subject to Washington's angst. It is testament to the ascendancy of China. Baptism under fire, so to say.

@TaiShang , input my brother ?