In our analysis of satellite imagery overlaid with the estimated grid coordinates of the fourth dash line, it is important to highlight that the justification for  the China Coast Guard vessels are rooted in this dash line. 

Their goal is to normalize such deployments, and if these actions go unnoticed and unchallenged, it will enable them to alter the existing status quo. This strategy of normalization, followed by altering the status quo and ultimately operationalizing their illegal narrative, has consistently been part of the Chinese playbook.

This is why it is important for the Philippine Coast Guard to actively expose these unlawful deployments of Chinese vessels to the global community, ensuring that such actions are not normalized and that this bullying behavior does not succeed.

If the international community remains passive in the face of this illegal deployment by the Chinese Communist Party's maritime forces, it could embolden them to infringe upon the uncontested Exclusive Economic Zones (EEZ) of other nations, such as Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia, and Indonesia.