“The Philippines needs to get back to constructive diplomacy.” The Philippine Daily Inquirer of October 4, 2024 headline screamed, “Neighbors’ silence
The Philippine Daily Inquirer of October 4, 2024 headline screamed, “Neighbors’ silence emboldens China’s illegal acts – PCG,” quoting Commodore Jay Tarriela, echoing USAF Col. Raymond Powell of the US Office of Naval Research, addressing Australian media at the National Press Club of Australia.
He did not realize that in citing the “rules-based order,” he is merely repeating an American-concocted term for a nebulous set of rules only U.S. vassal states orbiting around U.S. imperialist leadership accepted. This is no more than the G-7 and a motley crew third-tier countries like the Philippines under President Bongbong Marcos, Jr.
Tarriela was really griping against the nine other ASEAN countries that have shunned any involvement with the post-Duterte Philippine approach to its claims to portions of the South China Sea with other Asian and ASEAN claimants, namely China and Taiwan, and Malaysia, Brunei and Vietnam. The other ASEAN countries are being polite to the Philippines but there are actually critical grumblings against the Philippines’ complicity with the on-going U.S. strategy of tension against China.
In November 2023, then Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong in a forum asked “Are you sure Filipinos want to get into a fight where you will be the battleground?” – a comment that the columnist Richard Heydarian wrote “…didn’t go down well with many Filipinos who lament the lack of support, if not outright abandonment, from its ASEAN brethren amid its intensifying maritime tussle with the Asian superpower.
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