The U.S. Navy said, "Sam, a destroyer of soldiers on Tuesday morning at 9 in the South China Sea was reported missing, then the destroyer is located in Subic Bay about 140 miles west of Philippines, which is about 225 kilometers. Ships and planes from the United States and Japan joined the search.
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At the time of the protest, the "Sam Sam" destroyer entered the island of Paracel Islands 12 days ago and declared 2 nautical miles of freedom of navigation. The Chinese side protested at the time. Earlier, the Stethem had visited Shanghai in November 2015.
Japanese ships and aircraft to search for the missing soldiers in the South China Sea Chinese news spread, many netizens immediately think of the Lugou Bridge incident in July 7, 1937, when the Japanese army in the vicinity of Lugou Bridge to search for a missing soldier in the name, refused to China offensive. Some people put forward with caution, "is this a routine of the Japanese Lugou Bridge 77 incident?" Is it the 2 edition of Lugou Bridge?
Objectively speaking, today is not 1937, and the current situation of Sino foreign forces and geopolitical situation has not been mentioned in the same breath, and the direction of the times has also been different. The South China Sea without tension to a state of war, the United States and Japan not to open war to Chinese. So it turned out to be an earthshaking overture to the South China Sea incident, with minimal possibility.
Lugou Bridge incident in 1937, Lugou Bridge incident in 1937
In June of this year, the U.S. "Hilo" missile cruiser in the vicinity of Okinawa also lost one of the soldiers, troops in the ship and go to war, at sea for 2 days, until the third day, the soldiers hiding in a corner of the cabin of the Hilo "round. He was suspected of being dull eyes, on the field of traumatic stress syndrome. It is a similar story to rule out the disappearance of the soldier on the sam sam ship.
However, there are deep reasons for the vigilance reaction of Chinese Internet users, so this trend is worthy of great attention of the United states. Not only the history to reality projection, this association is regarded as a keen spread widely in the Sino US relations do not understand the actual situation of Internet users, more importantly, it reflects the diplomatic image of the United States today in China is getting worse, and it is the Japanese militarism phase and does not seem garish.
To be sure, the vast majority of the Chinese people are convinced that the United States is not in the South China Sea for peace. It is about geopolitics and trouble for china. So when someone knocks on the "Nanhai version of the Lugou Bridge incident", even if some of them are shaking the "geopolitical brain corner" of the "burden", but also makes people feel a bit appropriate.
In our view, it is necessary to remind the United States Navy that their search for missing soldiers should not harm China's sovereignty and rights in the South China Sea, nor seek the security of China by this search operation. If they need China to provide humanitarian support and assist in search and rescue, they should communicate through the normal channels of the two armies. The United States should not strengthen the Chinese public's suspicions about the bad strategic intentions of the United States because of this incident.
Generally speaking, the situation in the South China Sea has changed towards relaxation, and progress has been made in negotiations on the framework of the code of conduct in the South China Sea. China and the Philippines have restored their friendship, and China and Vietnam have demonstrated the ability to peacefully resolve frictions. At present, the uncertainty of the situation in the South China Sea almost all comes from the intervention of foreign countries, while the United States is the total source of this strategic unrest.
We hope that missing American soldiers will eventually be found safe, and even if they can not be found, the peace of the South China Sea will not be affected. President Trump approved a package of the first half of the United States Navy to engage in "freedom of navigation" in the South China Sea, American generals next to the cruise approval process has been simplified, the military's own discretion to expand the actual. In other words, the United States Navy has more power to influence Sino US relations.
Power is heavy, responsibility is heavy. The United States Navy a few similar Japanese or Japanese Kwantung Army stationed in North China in the Sino US relations to a radical officer against? We hope that this conjecture is proved to be absurd, the role of the Japanese army by the.
