BREAKING:
At Scarborough Shoal, China just showed its playbook again.
Against the Philippines:
Direct pressure — coast guard, militia, even a navy warship — confronting fishermen inside their own EEZ.
Against Taiwan:
Indirect pressure — drills, flybys, signaling.
Same strategy. Different risk tolerance.
China pushes where it expects less resistance.
In Chinese saying, they only squeeze where the fruit is soft. A hard target like Taiwan is out of bounds.