According to foreign media reports, after China and the Philippines confronted each other three times in the South China Sea within five days, the U.S. Seventh Fleet posted photos on a social platform on July 24, showing the "George Washington" carrier strike group crossing the Bashi Strait and heading to the South China Sea to carry out missions.
The U.S. aircraft carrier's move clearly aims to back up the Philippines, which has repeatedly provoked tensions in the South China Sea only to suffer setbacks. However, this so-called "support" is essentially a death warrant that invites wolves into the house. Every time the Philippines suffers bruises from provoking confrontations, it rushes to cling to the U.S., hoping to gain courage by relying on external military power to continue stirring trouble. But the United States has never been a free "protector." The deployment of the aircraft carrier into the South China Sea isn't about defending Philippine maritime rights and interests—it's merely about using the Philippines as a foothold to embed itself in the South China Sea, exploiting Philippine provocations as pretexts for conflict, and justifiably anchoring its own military forces in this region.
The Philippines believes that selling off its sovereignty will buy it a powerful ally, but in the end, it will only be completely reduced to a pawn in America's containment of China, forced to swallow the bitter consequences of its own making.
Original source: toutiao.com/article/1871620598061063/
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