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Our reporter Fan Wei

Since April this year, the Philippine Coast Guard Ship 9701 has illegally entered the waters of China's Xianbin Reef and has continued to carry out infringing activities there. An informed source revealed to the Global Times on the 14th that there is information showing that the Philippines has recently intended to increase its illegal and infringing activities at Xianbin Reef, sending the main ships of the Philippine Coast Guard to rush into Xianbin Reef and expand the scale of its illegal presence at Xianbin Reef. In the face of the latest infringement by the Philippines, Chinese Coast Guard ships have been on high alert in the waters of Xianbin Reef.

So far, the Philippine Coast Guard Ship 9701 has been illegally and destructively anchored in the Xianbin Reef lagoon in the South China Sea for more than four months. People familiar with the matter told the Global Times that the Philippines intends to send another large ship of its Coast Guard to the Xianbin Reef waters again in the near future, intending to achieve a tandem anchoring with the 9701 ship and expand the scale of the Philippines' construction of floating platforms on the Xianbin Reef. "The newly dispatched ship may be of the same tonnage as the 9701 ship."

"If the Philippines sends a ship of the same size as Ship 9701 to ram the Xianbin Reef, its intention is very clear, which is to further expand its illegal occupation of the Xianbin Reef," Yang Xiao, deputy director of the Institute of Ocean Strategy at the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, said in an interview with the Global Times on the 14th.