And here you are making a laughable mistake of conflating PH ( a treaty ally and a semi-colonized state who's surrounded by friendly countries and one of the founding members of the U.S. led initiative a.k.a. ASEAN) to Iran who's geopolitical situation is far more complex, dangerous, and is against not just her Arab neighbors but against the most competent military force in the region, the land of Abrahamic god.
Also, the U.S. relationship between these countries have been made decades ago when it was already the undisputed power in the western world, ditto with the PHILIPPINES. China on the other hand has only risen very recently and was busy improving its own strategic core (which is one of the primary reasons why it AVOIDED using the military to achieve its political aims because China's economy was just improving) and is just now starting to expand not just due to the geopolitical situation or necessity, but of foresight.
If China was to act the way most people love to see, which is to use its military before it's national comprehensive power is fully ready, then people like yourself and others would actually set the world back fully and firmly into the western camp because China maybe able to win a battle with the U.S. forces, it's economic viability will forever be diminished before it could dominate the west to the point of no return all for some folks to feel some sense of justice and retribution against what we all agree as inhumane entity.
