Well the have to resupply the 7 guys on that ship, regardless of weather the intention is to be high profile and stir up drama or do it quietly without drawing attention, if the ship isn't resupply those guys will starve. The recent air dropped resupply is probably something like the bare minimum to keep the men going.
I've been keeping an eye on that Richard Heydarian guy and others like him to see what their focus are and at the moment the hot topic seems to be fighting between Macros camp and Duterte camp:
It's all about the 2025 election, like I said Duterte had thrown down the gauntlet, he is protecting her daughter against nefarious forces determine to bring her down, who are those people? Well the US of course together with the oligarch and their families. They want to change the constitution to allow BBM, his family and relatives to stay in power maybe in perpetuity, they don't want another Duterte to return as they try to erase his legacy . THE PI or peoples initiative are the tool being use and it gave DUTERTE the opportunity to counter attack as the processes is highly controversial and rotten to the core as it use public money to fund it, reminiscence of old style politics of Guns, goons and gold perfected by the elder Marcos.
From my previous post, Marcos had the support of Northern Luzon and maybe part of Western Visayas, while Duterte had Eastern Visayas and the whole of Mindanao, this fissure is evident since the creation of the republic, as the concentration of power and policy making emanate in Imperial Manila. The grievances are still there brewing under the surface, it was partly extinguished under Duterte term as he is from Mindanao and a migrant from Cebu. Duterte a master politician know how to use that emotion and he is making a point that if Marcos want to play with fire he will be burned badly. I want to make a point all those survey indicating a negative image and opinion about China should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Manila is not the Philippine and I wish to amplified that.
When Duterte visited Beijing he was given an audience to meet Xi, the only second private person after Kissinger that was given the honor, what topic did they discussed? Now we had the answer and we had to thank the American for their blunders (ICC, VP impeachment proceeding and peoples Initiative) as it allowed Duterte to make his move.
Some pretty serious words like "traitor" and "criminal" are being thrown around by supports from either camp, so they are probably too busy with domestic politics at the moment to further stir up trouble at Renai Shoal hence the effort to keep it quiet.
Don't bet on it bro, Marcos and his minions will used another SCS incident to discredit Duterte as a Beijing apologist and a traitor. As the pressure mount and the dissatisfaction increase, it's his only tool in his toolbox. The SCS is part of a multiprong US strategy of containing and initiating a war with China, the Target date is 2025, the question is will the Brandon allowed it as he concentrate on his Presidential campaign.
