Defending the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands and safeguarding the maritime rights and interests of the South China Sea have recently become the focus of media and public attention.

The issue of safeguarding maritime rights and interests is quite complicated and cannot be completely solved in a short time. Defending national sovereignty has become a permanent competition. In order to win this competition, relevant countries need to demonstrate the following basic capabilities.

National psychological quality

When safeguarding maritime rights and interests becomes the focus of media and public attention, people will naturally pay more attention to this topic. But as time goes on, this attention will decrease day by day. Therefore, only by maintaining a normal mind can the people adapt to the long-term normal competition for the protection of maritime rights and interests.

economic strength

To some extent, maritime and sovereignty disputes are equivalent to economic wars. On the one hand, we must have sufficient economic strength and long-term standardized competition for maritime rights and interests; On the other hand, such disputes need to minimize the impact on the economy. In other words, encirclement cannot have much influence on economic development, construction and development speed. Only in this way can we realize the long-term normalization of competition for safeguarding maritime rights and interests.

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