They are super rational and informed when it comes to their bank accounts, about their geopolitical situation and their end destination as an ASEAN baltic level state not so much.
China's SCS Strategy Thread
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They're well inform just as @BlackWindMnt said from his previous post, it's all about money, unless China is willing to accommodate the oligarch elites you wouldn't see any changes happening.
Just look at our history, the revolutionaries such as Andres Bonifacio were killed by his fellow Filipino, the sad part is that the oligarchy elite had taken control of the revolution late in the game as they are a major source for funding. In return they task Aguinaldo to have him assassinated for his extreme view. The same thing happen to Aguinaldo during the Philippine American War were the oligarch switch allegiance to America in return for more wealth and maintaining their Status Quo.
It is also way more realistic for America to pursue a limited war instead of all out invading another nuclear armed superpower.
China would fight to the end over the home territories, it may not necessarily fight to the end over something in the SCS.
Vietnam wants to build islands?
that's totally fine as far as I'm concerned. The more this gets normalized, the more you can't just claim this is China bullying its neighbors. After all, those island expansions are aimed at US military
This is actually a much needed news to PUBLICIZE WITH MAXIMUM EXPOSURE to expose the DUPLICITOUS nature of the Philippines desire and use as nothing more than American ancillary tool to be used against the demonization of China and further militarization in the SCS.
I mean, let's be brutally frank here, NOT A LOT OF PINOYS understand the complexity of the SCS disputes nor are they slightly informed that there are other claimant countries in the islands within their West Philippines Sea. Now that Vietnam is once again trying to build up and fortifying the islands that "so-called patriotic pinoys claim as theirs" I wonder what sort of brave actions and complaints from their Americanized media will be spewing. We all know these fake Patricia's will hardly make a peep about this except for newspapers like the Manila Times which is in the very tiny minority of readership let alone influence in that country.
And here comes a last ditch effort by one of the few but effective leader(s) the PH actually have that still has a functional working brain, Pres. Rodrigo Duterte doing his effort as a private citizen to make some sort of peace offerings to China's leaders. Which the meeting itself is remarkable that he, Duterte a person that's no longer in government managed to have a face to face meeting with the leaders of China including Pres.Xi Jinping is very telling.
China always remembers old friends
Bro do you believed this survey?
it was done in English commission by Senate President Migs Zubiri....lol IF you see the questionnaire it was maliciously done to reflect the American view and the sample data are mostly college student. The timing is very suspicious right after the meeting between Xi and Duterte.19 hours ago — A rider question in the most recent Pulse Asia survey shows that Filipinos are overwhelmingly in support of partnering with the United ...