2 days after monitoring a provocative US warship transit in the Taiwan Straits, Chinese People's Liberation Army, PLA, forces drove away the same US vessel which intruded Chinese territorial waters in the South China Sea, on Thursday. As the US move was deemed an active navigational hegemony and public opinion manipulation that seriously violated China's sovereignty and safety and risk misjudgment and accidents. The two recent US warship activities were related and intentionally planned, analysts said, noting that the PLA's consecutive response is also demonstrated that it is fully prepared to fend off any provocations. Without authorization from the Chinese government, the Guided Missile Destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur illegally trespassed into China's territorial waters of Zai Shan Thursday, and the PLA Southern Theatre Command organized maritime and aerial forces to track and monitor it and warn it away, senior Colonel Chaon Jun Li, spokesperson of the command, said in a statement. The US military's claim that it was not expelled from any nation's territory is a confusing statement that intentionally leads the public to focus on expelled or not, military experts pointed out. USS Curtis Wilbur was not expelled from any nation's territory that the US 7th Fleet stated, which emphasizes expelled while ignoring the specific location on the territory of any country, is an attempt to confuse the public and diverting the focus, experts said. The US military intended to create the impression that Curtis Wilbur was driven away by the PLA's warning in international waters instead of the territorial waters of any country, experts analyzed. In the deep prudent mentality of the US military, it always denies China's sovereignty over the Zai Shan Islands, and refuses to recognize the baseline of the territorial sea of the islands. In this case, the US military does not believe it entered China's territorial sea and remained in international waters, experts said. The US military's move is an often used trick of mixed manipulation of navigational hegemony and public opinion misleading, which seriously violated China's sovereignty and safety, and severely harmed peace and stability in the South China Sea, Chaon said. We are firmly against this. It went against international law, and basic principles in international relations. Purposely added regional security risks and could have triggered misjudgment and maritime accidents, Chaon said, noting that it was unprofessional and irresponsible, and showed the US as the real security risk maker in the South China Sea. China should not only take proper military. Countermeasures, but also expose more of the US unreasonable and hegemonic moves to the international public, and let the world know the US military's true face, Zhang Shui Fang, a Chinese military expert, told the Global Times on Thursday.