Guess foreign criticizing toward China has little things to do with whether it fire first or not...It will give China the license to start a limited protective war without foreign criticising as aggressor...
I wonder when China will send tourists into these shoals for more photo op. Using Coast Guard to block these tiny vessels seem overkill. What we need is Chinese tourists to show their own flag and start a quarel with them at sea.
So I am looking at those 4 pictures and not one of them really backs up an assertion of "1000 liters of fuel" or "200 food packs". At this point, I am more inclined to believe these are face-saving psyops.
Which then could escalate into a full-on fight between the two groups. Such a fight could then drag in both sides’ Coast Guards and will endanger both sides’ people.I wonder when China will send tourists into these shoals for more photo op. Using Coast Guard to block these tiny vessels seem overkill. What we need is Chinese tourists to show their own flag and start a quarel with them at sea.
Between the entrance there is a large CCG vessel deployed and rotated each year to guard the shoal against overfishing, only within the periphery did they allowed them to fish. That mouth had been dredge by the Chinese precisely to claim sovereignty over shoal.So the report claims that the advance party had breached the Chinese blockade in Huáng Yán Dǎo and entered its lagoon, when we look at this satellite photo, the only opening to the lagoon is a small inlet in the south east, I don't see how China's vast fleet wont be able to secure this entrance, its possible that the report is just another PsyOps operation to score propaganda points for clueless Filipinos. Besides, the photos could have been taken anywhere within the vicinity of CCG ships and then presented as being inside the Huáng Yán Dǎo lagoon.