China's SCS Strategy Thread

[lcloo]

The Philippines’ economy and politics are dominated by a handful of elite families — dynasties that control both government positions and major industries. These clans include the Marcoses, Villars, Ayalas, Sys, and others, whose influence spans banking, real estate, retail, utilities, and national politics. Their entrenched power makes reform difficult and perpetuates inequality between the elites and the common people.

The current Philippines model is a "Predatory State System". i.e. One elite family fighting against another for political power and economic control. Corruption and power abuse is the norm.

The statement "Counties like Philippines are only getting stronger over time." is illusional in the face of China.

 

[ansy1968]

Philippines is a poor country that has been economically outclass by most of their neighbors for quite sometime, Vietnam in manufacturing, Malaysia in high tech, Indonesia and so on. The US has done very little to improve the country considering that treat them like a colony. They can't afford a big military to compete with a large military power like China and is unfair to ask them to do so, they will have to sacrifice development money. And even less they can't afford to become the Ukraine of the pacific, any disruption will be a death sentence for a country without land borders. The easy solution for them is to establish a framework with China. The problem is that the current government is puppet of the stooges in the US.

The US will not voluntary gave up his/her colony for nothing, being a good student of UK, its better to established and engineered an oligarchy Raj rather than dirty their hand in running their colony. It's a perfect template, instead of rebuilding the Philippine economy which the American destroyed during WW2 (especially Manila which they leveled) why not loan them the money with high interest, take the national resources as collateral and exploit them. Rebuilding the gov't institution, especially the security apparatus like the PC (Philippine Constabulary) an extension of American power, retaining military bases and introducing an alien constitution. What you get is a perfect Brown brother of the American, just like the Indians.