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Preferably, yes. Having physical scuffles that lead to visible physical injuries are fuel for the US-esque and US manipulated mass media in the Philippines soliciting sympathy points from the public and international audience. If the CCG used sonic or microwave attacks, there would be less obvious materials for the Philippine mass media to work with. Relying on reports/interviews of victims may not be impactful enough due to almost none of the public can relate being on the receiving end of a sonic or microwave attack or it will just be deemed as a military procurement problem on our side. Then again, these wouldn't stop their narrative framing and might reinvent themselves anew.Wonder why China doesn’t use some of its available riot dispersion equipment in these situations.
Rather than get into unseemly scuffles, just blast them with a sonic burst or microwave blast. Non-lethal, far more effective, much better optics, and extremely hard for the Philippines to copy. Even if the do import some such equipment at great cost, that’s when you move in with bigger ships and water cannon them to bits.
Philippines will always try to play the victim game and will always find an audience in western countries and anti-China countries in east asia.
They are probably waiting for the arrival of some new Duterte... But I don't know. The media already belongs to or admires the Americans and the average Filipino has no other source of information. No more Dutarte will have a chance.Philippines will always try to play the victim game and will always find an audience in western countries and anti-China countries in east asia.
There are only two ways to break this cycle. Give up and go home. Or escalate to the point of complete domination, essentially shut them down.
But China is not willing to do either, so the grind will keep going.
The problem to that is that the political and corporate elites in the country from birth to their senior years are already mostly in the US camp without them even realizing it or whether they liked it or not because this was the political and economic reality they grew up with. China as a true competing power against the US is a relatively new phenomenon barely even a decade old. The consequential people to people connections and exchanges with openness and biased towards China are only being established and it would take another decade or two to bear fruit. Like the current rounds of China-inspired Filipino students are just beginning to enter college in China or are fresh graduates and that viral TikTok China university dorm video really gives you a glimpse where it is now and the mindset of Filipinos exposed to Chinese mindset and culture.They are probably waiting for the arrival of some new Duterte... But I don't know. The media already belongs to or admires the Americans and the average Filipino has no other source of information. No more Dutarte will have a chance.
I judge this based on the situation in Europe. Here the information base is much larger, but the main channels serve the average citizen only their own truth, controlled from the USA. And how are the Filipinos.. those poor ragged people in those boats...
Battle of Midway, June 4–7, 1942, colorized.
These video kept popping up my feed being shared everywhere. With the way people sound, you think its something really tragic.
deterrent work if other side too scare to escalate past red line (US-Philipines join defense treaty for example) but if other side too aggressive and cross every single red line you put out then you are in deep shjt troublePhilippines will always try to play the victim game and will always find an audience in western countries and anti-China countries in east asia.
There are only two ways to break this cycle. Give up and go home. Or escalate to the point of complete domination, essentially shut them down.
But China is not willing to do either, so the grind will keep going.
Malaysia upgrades South China Sea defences amid Sabah row with Philippines
Long-range radar at Swallow Reef and new drones in Labuan aim to give Malaysia better oversight of its eastern waters
And China just exactly defied what you said. The aggressive side gets turned every time while China, the chill side, builds up our islands and expands our territory. Sometimes, trying to relieve bully rage in writing makes you miss the actual picture, eh?deterrent work if other side too scare to escalate past red line (US-Philipines join defense treaty for example) but if other side too aggressive and cross every single red line you put out then you are in deep shjt trouble
because now the ball is on your side ... either you hit back to save face but start ww3 everyone die (include you and you don't want that)
or
you bite your tongue and humiliation back down for the..."greater good"
the aggressive side who escalated eat all the benefit cake
...sometime it better to be the aggressor instead of let other guy do it first (the other guy im talking about isn't philipines)