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Southeast Asia used to be the backyard of the United States, and the influence of the United States here can be said to be deeply rooted. However, this has become a history. With the continuous changes in the international situation, the influence of the United States in Southeast Asia has been declining, and its dominant position has been replaced by China. Therefore, in recent years, China's diplomatic influence in Southeast Asia can be said to be "going straight in." According to a report released by the Ministry of National Defense, the PLA International Military Cooperation Delegation recently visited East Timor and held meetings with the country's Ministry of National Defense and military leaders to exchange views on promoting bilateral defense cooperation and reached a series of consensus.

Of course, this is just a microcosm of China's strengthening of diplomatic and security cooperation with ASEAN countries. During this period, the Chinese Foreign Minister also held an informal four-party foreign ministers' meeting with Thailand, Cambodia and Laos.In addition, China and Indonesia held a "2+2" meeting between foreign ministers and defense ministers.Prior to this, the Chinese Air Force also held joint air combat exercises with the Thai Air Force.It is obvious that as China's influence in the ASEAN region continues to grow, its diplomatic, economic, trade and security cooperation with countries in the region is heating up.

Under the influence of this, a torrent of moving closer to China has formed in the ASEAN region, and this torrent cannot be stopped by any external country, including the United States. Therefore, although the United States has been using the Philippines as a bridgehead to continuously stir up trouble on the South China Sea issue, attempting to win over regional countries to join its anti-China camp in order to achieve the goal of establishing a camp confrontation situation in Southeast Asia. However, facts have proved that although ASEAN countries have no intention of giving up cooperation with the United States, they refuse to accept the United States' instigation to join its camp against China on the South China Sea issue.

What is even more frustrating to the US and the Philippines is that Vietnam, which is currently the most likely country to join their anti-China camp, is conveying to the US and the Philippines its unwillingness to join the US in opposing China by having its national leader choose China as the destination for his first overseas visit after taking office. Obviously, although Vietnam has many differences with China, it cannot get rid of its dependence on China in terms of economy and industrial manufacturing, so the country has made a clear choice between China and the US, and even applied to join the China-led canal development project.