By Jun Abines

 

Under Bongbong Marcos, the Philippines rapidly returned to its longtime status as a de facto US colony.

And since Washington’s primary business in Asia today is to orchestrate a regionwide confrontation of China, Manila’s Amboy (“America’s boy”) regime is actively following suit.

The turn has unleashed not only the Philippines’ populist devotion to all things USA. It has also stirred the latent Sinophobia among the people.

Some highly pertinent thoughts from Filipino writer Jun Abines:

Most of us Filipinos grew up thinking the Americans and the West are the true heroes of the world. Through their controlled mainstream media, we watched thousands of movies and TV shows painting all other races are evil.

We cherished war movies where American and British soldiers killed Germans, Japanese, Arabs, Vietnamese, Koreans, Russians, and Africans who are the ‘evil’ forces in their movies. Little did we know that American Soldiers also killed our Filipino heroes and a million of our ancestors who fought them during the Filipino-American War in the early 1900s.

No official movies or books were shown or published that tell the side of the story of American and British enemies. Like how the British killed hundreds of millions of native American Indians. How the Americans dropped atomic bombs to two Japanese cities full of women, children, and civilians. Like how Americans, British, and French forces invaded Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria in the pretense of fighting terrorism.

We believed 100 percent what the Hollywood and mainstream media told us. We swallowed the narrative of West as truths and facts without asking a single question. We cheered them for invading weak nations and killed women and children.

We saw Vietnam (Saigon), Koreans, Arabs and Africans kill their own brothers because the Americans and the West divided them and poisoned their minds into hating each other. Freedom, Democracy, fighting against Communism and fighting against Terrorism are the common excuses of the West to divide and conquer nations.

The West controlled the world with lies and deception by sowing lies, hate, anger, and distrust among nations, races, and culture. They divide and conquer rising and thriving nations and regions to maintain their world hegemony.

When was the last time the Philippines waged a war against another country?

We fought our colonizer Spain. We fought our colonizer, United States. We fought invader Japan. But we never fought Malaysia for annexing Sabah. Because the British were behind them. The Americans turned blind eye on Sabah because they never cared.

Now, here we are thinking China is our enemy.

China is our neighbor and Asian brother. We shared common seas, common culture, and common blood for thousands of years. We shared the same fate of being invaded, bullied, and colonized by the West. We shared the same history. They helped us against our colonizers many times, but they were never publicized and given focus.

China, like most of us Asian nations, are peaceful people. They love to trade. They mind their own business. And they are industrious.

China did not invade us. China did not kill our ancestors. China did not impose their culture on us. China did not force us to speak their language. China did not meddle in our internal politics. But the United States did.

China, for all its imperfection and flaws as a nation, rose from nothing to become the world’s number 1 economy. They achieved this in spite of all the bullying, undermining, and demonizing of the West. The West kept telling us that China is bad and evil. Now look at China, rich and producer of affordable quality goods for all the world to buy.

China does not discriminate against nations. They trade fair and square. Unlike the West, who deprive technologies to small nations and dictate their will on them.

Now, suddenly, China is an evil country?

The Philippines has no quarrel with China. Those rocks and beaches in the West Philippines seas or Spratly Islands are mostly inhabitable submerged islets no bigger than Siquijor Island in total.

We have more seas and waters to fish in Palawan and on the Pacific Ocean side that’s ours exclusively. That area in the China Sea under dispute does not even represent 10% of the seas and waters that surround the Philippines if fishing rights are the true issue.

Sadly, our mainstream media are telling us another story. They want Filipinos to think China is invading us. Lies and deceptions are their specialty.

The real story is that the United States is already in a cold war with China because it has become the dominant economic power of the world, threatening to overtake the US in military might by 2028.

The US must invade and defeat China in the next 5 years, or it will become a military superpower beyond US capacity. Taiwan is just an excuse. Spratly Islands is just an excuse. Freedom of navigation is just an excuse. It’s all about economic and military dominance.

If the US succeeds in sparking a shooting war in the South China Sea, all ships bringing affordable China products to the world will be disrupted. All raw materials going to China via ships will stop. An effective way to sabotage China from growing economically.

China knows the US will force a war against them by hook or by crook. They can do false flag attack or shoot civilian ships or aircraft and blame it on China. They already did this trick in Ukraine and Iran before. But China is making sure there are no attacks or killings. A peaceful South China Sea favors China. A war zone South China Sea favors the US and the West.

Filipinos must be mindful of the tricks and deception of the US controlled media. We are being fed to the Dragon. China shoots us water cannon because we are not their true enemy. But they shoot real torpedoes to US Nuclear Submarines, which enters their water territory. They shoot a US hunter sub last year and embarrassed the US big time.

China can invade the Philippines if it wants to. But they won’t. It’s not their DNA. It’s not their way of life and culture. They just want to continue to grow economically through business and trade as they did for thousands of years.

The West and the US already invaded us. They have already killed tens of millions of women and children in the last 500 years. They have started and engaged in hundreds of wars to grow economically. That’s their DNA. That’s their way of life and their culture.

Now tell me, why do we hate China?

 

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