Manila a silly kid with its reckless actions

As usual, after China responded to its intended infringement of the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity in the South China Sea on Aug 8, the Philippines cried aloud its innocence and tried to paint China in a bad light.

In a statement issued that day, Philippine armed forces chief General Romeo Brawner accused Chinese military aircraft of dropping flares in the path of a Philippine Air Force transport plane in the airspace over China's Huangyan Island, declaring it was a "dangerous maneuver". Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr doubled down on that on Sunday, calling the Chinese action "unjustified, illegal and reckless".

China would not have had to make its legal and necessary action in response had the Philippine military aircraft not been guilty of an unjustified, illegal and reckless intrusion into the airspace of Huangyan Island. That it did so twice, once on Aug 7 and once on Aug 8, shows it was a deliberate move by the Philippines aimed at provoking China.