” PERILO US” SITUATION
According to researchers, Beijing is escalating tensions with the Philippines in an effort to pull it out of the South China Sea.
Jay Batongbacal, producer for the Institute for Maritime Affairs and Law of the Sea in Manila, told AFP that China’s causes may be poised to capture the grounded Philippine ship, the Sierra Madre.
According to him, the implementation of their forces around the Sierra Madre and the numerous islands around the Kalayaan area group indicate that they are prepared to do it, referring to Manila-claimed areas in the Spratly Islands.
According to the United States,” an armed assault” against Asian people ships, aircraft, armed forces, and coastguard anywhere in the South China Sea may need it to defend itself under a treaty between the two nations.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken “emphasised that ( China’s ) actions undermine regional peace and stability” in a call with his Philippine counterpart Enrique A Manalo on Wednesday, according to the State Department.
They also “understood the impenetrable pledges made by the United States to the Philippines under our Mutual Defense Treaty,” Blinken said.
Another scientist claimed that the conflicts “brought us dangerously close” to a situation where the United States would need to use force.
” The Philippines will probably want to continue resupply expeditions to the Sierra Madre, one way or another”, said Duan Dang, a Vietnam- based coastal security analyst.
He claimed that reversing Beijing’s position regarding these procedures would mean reneging on its exclusive economic zone’s royal rights.