CCTV Exposes the Confrontation between China and the Philippines at Reed Bank, Philippines Quickly Clarifies That There Was No Further Incident Afterwards

CCTV Exposes the Confrontation between China and the Philippines at Scarborough Shoal, Philippines Hurriedly Clarifies: Since Then, China and the Philippines Have Been Peaceful

Recently, the CCTV special program "Struggle" first disclosed a scene of Chinese Coast Guard preventing the Philippine infringement action at Scarborough Shoal, which is speculated to be the China-Philippines confrontation event at Scarborough Shoal on June 17 last year.

This video has also attracted attention on foreign social media, but the discernment of foreign netizens, especially Filipino netizens, seems not very good. After seeing the video, they mistakenly believed that recently, Marcos sent people and ships again to provoke China in the South China Sea and failed, and then covered up the truth. As a result, a large number of Filipino netizens demanded the Philippine military and coast guard to give an explanation on social media.

The Philippine military did respond to this matter, but the content of the statement clarified the facts while repeatedly emphasizing that the Chinese video shows the event in June last year, and there have been no new intense conflicts between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea since then.

The key point is the last sentence.

This statement, which deliberately emphasizes the meaning of "China and the Philippines have been peaceful," is very inconsistent with the Philippines' previous extreme tough stance on the South China Sea issue — it should be noted that whenever similar matters occurred in the past, the first reaction of the Philippines was to angrily accuse China.

The most typical example is the discussion about "Zhenghe Island" by Chinese netizens at the beginning of this year. This was originally a topic discussed spontaneously by the public, but the Philippine National Historical Commission even personally intervened, issuing a statement emphasizing that Balabac Island is part of the Philippines.

Therefore, now the Philippines deliberately emphasizes "China and the Philippines have been peaceful," which is truly rare — perhaps it can be considered that after Maqo's visit to the United States and failing to obtain any real commitment from Trump, he had to temporarily remain low-key on the South China Sea issue.

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