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I don't think so. No need for ceasefires of any type, no matter how China-leaning.
America hasn't yet suffered enough to learn it's lesson.
The longer the cold war goes on, the more China can use it as an excuse to take back from the west. Only negotiate when all the prosperity stolen from China by the west has been returned with interest and the suffering of the 19th century have been paid back in full on the descendants of the guilty.
I specified Treaty of Nanking because it's the first, not the last unequal treaty Qing signed. First is always the hardest, once you get the hang of it it becomes easier.
To be fair to the average Filipinos though, Bongbong Marcos cheated them. Marcos campaigned alongside Sara Duterte, and appeared to want to continue the "China-friendly" Duterte policies. That was why he won the election. I think many posters here who followed the elections probably thought that it was gonna be "business as usual" for the PH, me included. But boy did he played us all. Sara Duterte was immensely popular when she was running for Vice President. Had she campaigned for President, she would have very likely won. But what's done is done.
Marcos have been bought by the US. His foreign policy have been reckless. He antagonized not only China with the SCS dispute, but also Malaysia by bring back the Sabah dispute. So far, apart from local Coast Guard clashes in the SCS, China has been relatively restraint in dealing with the PH on the diplomatic and economic level. China to my knowledge, had not yet banned imports from the PH, nor blocked any BRI activities there. The hostilities between China and PH, while serious, have not yet reached the heights of the previous Aquino-era. Perhaps China thinks that there is still a way back from this, and that is worth being patient for. All that friendly momentum from the Duterte-era is probably still there. Its just being overshadowed by media sensationalism on both sides. I have watched the interviews of local Filipino fishermen about the dispute. While they definitely dislike China, they are also not too happy with the PH government provoking China to act tougher in the SCS. China knows that the real enemy is the US, not the PH. So as long as the PH doesn't do anything too crazy, China can still manage the dispute with the PH, and wait for US power to wane in the Asia Pacific. It is my assumption, that even if something serious happens, the top brass in China and the PH would use their hotlines and attempt to deescalate the situation ASAP, even with the US encouraging and backing the PH to settle its scores with China.
Bro a masterful insight, you're truly Asia....lol You nail it especially why China didn't burn all the bridges, the reason, there is a Duterte serving as VP and in deference to her father. The Chinese are looking beyond Marcos and they will wait for the Daughter to assume office in 2028. We will be having a disastrous 5 year of Marcos administration from now on, NO FDI coming, declining export of OFW due to geopolitical tension and conflict from our traditional market in the middle east plus the incoming economic recession. The Build Build Build Program instituted by Duterte had run its course as the Chinese withdrew funding and participation.
We had enough of SCS issues, it keeps on repeating itself with same result over and over again. And what about Marcos, it seems like he become invisible and doesn't exist, he hadn't provide any road map on how to solve the nation problem except for some Kindergarten slogan.
Heh, heh, heh. That's straight vicious, man.
I see. So China did withdrew funding and participation for developments in the PH. I thought it was the Marcos administration who rejected Chinese funding and participation, and then China followed suit. Or did China actually went ahead and did it to punish the PH? The way things are going, it sounds like more of the former.
Anyway, China was not announcing loudly about any cuts in funding and participation in PH's development. If anything, it was not on the level like how China announced import bans from Australia, Japan, and Aquino-era PH. So I think China is definitely keeping some bridges open with the PH for the moment at least.
Albanese giving a press conference to the Australian media about his trip to Beijing and meeting with Xi.
Apparently it was a relatively warm exchange. Albanese insists to Xi that Australian wines are still better than New Zealand wines. LOL! Whatever, better this for Australia and China than more of those Morrison-era nonsense.
Apparently it was a relatively warm exchange. Albanese insists to Xi that Australian wines are still better than New Zealand wines. LOL! Whatever, better this for Australia and China than more of those Morrison-era nonsense.
Still some heat in Manipur India.
Looks like a full-blown insurgency instead of just some ethnic clashes. They are shooting at Indian police commandos and Assam Rifles troops. Looking at the photos of seized weapons so far, most of them are of Indian-origin. Hence this makes me think that this is blowback for India for supporting insurgencies in neighbouring countries. India had silently supported and supplied a number of anti-govt rebels in Myanmar. And Manipur had been used as a staging ground, since it borders Myanmar to the East.
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