US meddling in South China Sea to no avail

In a bid to contain China's peaceful rise, the United States has made the South China Sea a major venue for maintaining high strategic pressure on China in recent years, and for this purpose, the US Navy has increased the frequency with which its warships sail to China's doorstep.

Last week, it was the turn of the littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords and the guided-missile destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer to conduct the provocation, with the former trespassing into the sea area adjacent to the Nansha Islands and the latter into the territorial waters of the Xisha Islands.

In response to the provocative moves, which were made just a few days after China called on the US to stop flexing its muscles in the waters, the Southern Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army immediately mobilized air and maritime forces to identify and warn the US ships to leave the waters.