China's SCS Strategy Thread

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7556

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7556 said:
I think the original intention of DDG and CCG vessel was to encircle the Philippine vessel, but the Philippine ship had a higher speed.
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The occurrence time of the second and third video clips should be before the first one. From this, it can be seen that the DDG and CCG vessels had already prepared for the collision and respectively turned their rudders to the sides of the Philippine vessel.
 
plawolf

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sequ said:
Whats was the captain of 164 even thinking? Someone's going to be demoted.
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Yeah, my first thought on seeing that is why is the destroyer getting involved in bumper-ships when there is a coast guard cutter already on scene doing precisely that?

But on second viewing of the footage, some things look off. I suspect things are not as how the Philippine’s carefully cut footage would suggest (d’uh!)

Firstly, in the second video, you can see PLAN sailors throwing over bumping protecting rolls. That’s usually when ships dock to prevent banging against peers. And from the way those were deployed so high up, it’s clear that this wasn’t a pre planned and rehearsed manoeuvre. Looks very much like the PLAN sailors were genuinely worried about the collision and were trying all they reasonably can to prevent damage to the warship.

In all the ‘action’ footage from the Philippines videos, it’s always the destroyer that is involved in the near misses. But that makes zero sense to risk damage to a major warship when there is a coast guard cutter literally on scene that is far better suited to aggressive manoeuvres and kinetic impacts.

This taken together makes me highly suspicious that this is a new level of escalation by the Philippines where it is sending its small cheap and more manoeuvrable coast guard cutter to make aggressive close passes against PLAN destroyers to try to intimidate and either force the PLAN ship to change course or risk taking collision damage.

The Chinese coast guarded cutter was trying to chase and shoo off the Philippines ship, which is why it got so close to the PLAN destroyer.

If this is true, I think Beijing needs to massively up the heat against the Philippines and take the gloves off the PLAN and revise their rules of engagement where any ship that gets within X hundred metres of a PLAN warship and does not alter course is considered as a clear and present threat to the PLAN warship, with the warship allowed to respond with overwhelming deadly force in self defence.

China has been too timid and scared of using its power for too long. It’s way past time that changed, and this incident might just give Beijing the wake up call and justification it needs to move past that and really start to embrace its hard power against those who are too stupid to realise just how fundamentally overmatched they are.
 
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