Indian Democracy at work. Please China copy this system so you too can enjoy the awesomeness being felt in the largest Democracy in the world from the self-proclaimed, self-professed highly loquacious India.
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The premise on that article along with the fearmongering shit laced in the article is eerily similar to this AMERICAN NOVEL ABOUT YOU GUESSED IT: WAR WITH CHINA. In the novel the Chinese made a surprised attack in pearl Harbour through the use of cargo ships.
This book preceded Admiral Stavridis own China magnum opus Michael Bay style novel called "2034"
Yes correct bro, people correlates Manila as the whole of the Philippines which is not. There is a strong sense of regionalism and their voices is being drown by those in the Metropolis. I'm not trying to defend the Philippine gov't action regarding China BUT the sweeping accusation of Filipino piety to America is false. You have been in Cebu and you know that Cebuanos and Ilonggo can't go along even if the dialect sound the same. And many in Mindanao had Bisayas and Ilocano roots as they were the first Christian settlers to go there as part of American Muslim pacification. BUT the large land grabbers are from Luzon, the Mestizo gentry that seizes land from Muslim, they are an extension of American rule, an example is DEL MONTE Philippine a JV with American corporation, see how American perpetuated its hegemony in the Philippine, the context of independence is for show as they nurtured the oligarchs and the political elites in Imperial Manila. Duterte presidency is an aberration because he came from Mindanao, that shows how divided the country is regarding US presence. His victory is a testament of Filipino Nationalism that is not reported openly in western and local MSM.
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The hypocrisy and double standards of the West are off the charts. NATO always picks and chooses who has a right to self-determination and who does not.
This is why i don't believe in colonialism being cancelled in the post ww2 world. Because if you think about it what was colonialism in its essence its was the western world claiming to be the rightful owners of your resources be it in commodities or human resources. Just because they peacefully gave you back a flag, the ability to print your own coin and compose your own national anthem, it probably means in return they are promised they can keep a significant share of their colonial resources rights. And made sure they had the ability to invest and keep their hold on their colony. Unless you did a bloody liberation struggle in the post ww2 world and massive land and mineral reforms. It most like most that the "free" nations are still just colonial subjects but this time they were allowed to create or choose their own mask.
The filipino people will most likely see that with Marcos government gets nothing done, with China probably freezing investment in the Philippines and choose different partners. Maybe in 5~6 years they will want a Duterte again as president to get things going again. If its not too late by then.
Bro the propaganda is that the US liberated the Philippine, a serious question should be ask is why we are involved in the first place, the American didn't liberate us they destroy the country then gave us independence so that we MUST BORROW MONEY WITH CONDITION for reconstruction. And the American get what it want thru the PARITY AMENDMENT. See bro the American are cheapskate and racist, we fought and die for them BUT reward Germany and Japan thru the Marshall plan, while the money we got are onerous loan.
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We are hoping for Sarah Duterte victory in 2028 BUT she is so trusting and I'm afraid when the father is gone, Marcos may turn against her since he is a REAL TRAPO.
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I'm glad that you bring this up. This dispute between Malaysia and the Philippines is real, and has been severely under-reported. While China is often hyped up as the threat to ASEAN. There are so many more disputes going on within ASEAN itself. This dispute over the Malaysian state of Sabah is one of them. There was one flashpoint: an area called Lahad Datu. Let's talk about Malaysia's history in this dispute.Okay let's dwell who American will support, like I said Malaysia existence is due to US protection, without it, it will be balkanized. The Philippine legally had solid claimed, now if conflict do happen in the future which I know it will because most residents of Sabah are of Tausug ethnicity with family ties from Sulu, Jolo and part of southern Mindanao as part of Sultanate of Sulu empire. With peace agreement between the Government under Duterte and MILF, the focus now is on reclaiming Sabah. The Malaysian knew this and are funding the ABU SAYAF terrorist group using Sabah as a sanctuary with explicit agreement with US. Now the Americans are playing a double game, the additional EDCA access bases will be develop in Palawan and certain part of Southern Mindanao, the Palawan part I can understand due to its proximity in the SCS BUT Southern Mindanao? The Maranaos and Tausugs surely know their history and they will not forget cause they weren't conquered. Muslim nationalism is strong there and most of Mindanaoan are staunch Filipino nationalist (Duterte anti American stance is an example of public sentiment there) because they see people in Luzon as part of American Imperialism with Christianity as their spearhead tool to pacify the natives by transplanting Christian settlers. They term the people from Luzon as Imperial Manila, as most decision making policy is formulate there without consulting them. So in conclusion there is deep divide when talking about Pro American tendency , of the Three main Island Luzon is the most develop and the Capital Manila or NCR contributes 55% of our GDP as most of the political elites and oligarch lived there, managing their land holdings in the confine of their luxury offices while the Serfs are doing the hard work. You can see the imbalances and their gripes (Visayas and Mindanao) are not being heard, As both Islands are at the bottom of development with most of their resources are being channel back to Manila. There is a common joke among the residence of Mindanao, I think @Bellum_Romanum , @PhSt , @Coalescence and @BlackWindMnt know this,
It's ironic, the oligarchs and the Americans hate Duterte so much that they vow it will never happened again BUT he saves both of them because the Philippine before his term is ripe for a violent revolution and dismemberment.
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The one thing I would disagree with you is that it is not the US that kept Malaysia from balkanizing, but actually the British. The British, along with some Commonwealth nations had extensive military presence in Malaysia during the Malayan Emergencies from 1948 - 1989 to fight the various communist insurgency. That kept Malaysia as a defacto client state of the British. Kinda like the French military presence in Mali. There were curfews, martial laws, propaganda, emergency laws, and powerful British influence in Malaysian politics. That, I believe is what truly kept Malaysia together throughout it's early years.
Except for Singapore, which was actually demographic engineering. The main purpose of which was to exile a large part of the Chinese population out of Malaysia, and make the Malay population at that time, the overall majority. The British were in Red Scare hysteria, so they distrusted the Chinese as communists. While the Malay elites are just racists. Both didn't want the Chinese vote their way into power. The British preferred to have the much more obedient Malays rule over the greater part of Malaysia. While the Malay elites want to become the ultimate rulers of Malaysia. The excess Chinese population were exiled onto an island called Singapore with nothing much, but swampland, old British bases, and a port. Then the rest is history.
Malaysia, just like India, was a nation that was put on the map by the British. Blessed by the British with a Westminster system, British education, and colonial-era infrastructure to inherit. That is how I understand the identity crisis of Indian chauvinists. There was never a unified 'Malaysia' prior to British colonial rule. West Malaysia was formed from a hodgepodge of Malay Sultanates, and land concessions to the British from Siam (known as Thailand today) and the Dutch (their colony of Malacca). East Malaysia on Borneo, was formed from land concessions from the Brunei Sultanate and Sulu Sultanate to the British. In addition to further British expansion into Borneo to claim more territories from petty kingdoms. It's actually more complicated than that, but I'll keep it simple and call all of the colonialists as the British.
So Malaysia's territorial claim on Sabah is a result of British colonialism. The Sulu Sultanate's claim on Sabah does predate the Malaysian claim. So their claim is stronger. But there is a problem: the Sulu Sultanate does not exist today. So how exactly did the Philippines inherited the territorial claims of the Sulu Sultanate? I am not familiar with Filipino history. So I have to ask this question to you, @ansy1968.
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There was NOT A SINGLE UNIFIED STATE CALLED THE PHILIPPINES so the argument used by the Philippines regarding their claim to Sabah is bunked.