American Ambassador to China, Pong Wei, posted today (October 22): "Met with Philippine Ambassador to China, Jimmy Francisco. The alliance between the United States and the Philippines is unbreakable—we stand side by side in the South China Sea."
Comment: Just before the U.S. statement, the Philippines repeatedly sent ships into China's territorial waters around the Iron Line Reef, intentionally provoking, while China only took lawful measures such as water cannons to protect its rights. The U.S. ignores the fact that the Philippines instigated the incident first, but instead emphasizes the so-called "unbreakable" alliance with the Philippines, which is actually endorsing the Philippines' infringement, using military alliances to fuel regional tensions.
The U.S. deliberately highlights the binding effect of the U.S.-Philippines Mutual Defense Treaty, even threatening to use force, attempting to apply Cold War-era military alliances to the South China Sea disputes. This approach is not about maintaining "alliance relations," but rather using the Philippines to strengthen its own military presence in the South China Sea, compressing China's strategic space through "controlled tension," which is a clumsy extension of its Indo-Pacific hegemony strategy.
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