Comicomment: Who is fanning disputes in South China Sea?

(ECNS) -- The United States and the Philippines will conduct joint military drills. It is noticed that the scale will exceed that of previous years, and the U.S. and the Philippines will also conduct exercises for the first time in disputed areas beyond 12 nautical miles from Philippine territorial waters.

The United States, under the guise of the so-called "freedom of navigation," has significantly stepped up its intervention in the South China Sea. The Philippines, in collusion with some countries outside the region, has seriously infringed China's sovereignty and raised tensions in the South China Sea.

The peace and stability in the South China Sea are being safeguarded by all peace-loving countries in the region. Located tens of thousands of kilometers away from the South China Sea, the United States has been fanning disputes, misrepresenting facts, and stoking confrontation in the region, openly defying the wishes of regional countries to maintain regional peace and stability.

The South China Sea is the shared home for the countries in the region. To make it a sea of peace, friendship and cooperation requires constructive contributors, not trouble-makers.