As Anti-Media has covered in recent days, controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, along with hundreds of Filipino business leaders, is visiting China this week in a move aimed at strengthening regional ties between the two countries.
On Tuesday, we reported that, for all intents and purposes, the United States had lost the Philippines to China as an ally, with President Duterte saying during his visit that “It’s only China that can help us” and “I just want to talk with China” on the issue of the South China Sea.
Now, Reuters is reporting that Duterte announced his official separation from the U.S while speaking in Beijing at a forum in the Great Hall of the People.
“In this venue, your honors, in this venue, I announce my separation from the United States,” Duterte said on Thursday, to wild applause from both Chinese and Filipino business people. Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, incidentally, was also in attendance.
Duterte went further than this, however, stating “America has lost” both militarily and economically in its pursuit of imperialistic hegemony. Interestingly, his comments come a day after Filipino police drove a van into a crowd of demonstrators protesting against U.S. imperialism in the region.
Equally interesting is the status Duterte instantly granted the Philippines by shifting his allegiance to China. Duterte, it seems, believes his country has now elevated to the rank of global superpower.
“I’ve realigned myself in your ideological flow,” he said of China, “and maybe I will also go to Russia to talk to (President Vladimir) Putin and tell him that there are three of us against the world — China, Philippines and Russia. It’s the only way.”
While such grand talk from the Philippine president is hardly surprising — indeed, it’s nearly expected at this point — and is undoubtedly wishful thinking on his part, it nonetheless demonstrates that Duterte sees the writing on the wall.
Two forces are taking shape in the buildup to what could very well be World War III — those nations aligned with the United States and the West, and those supporting the steadily growing Eurasian bloc, led by Russia and China.
President Duterte, very clearly, has put his money on the Russian-Chinese superstate.
China, for its part, has been relatively quiet in recent weeks, seemingly content to firm up deals with regional partners such as the Philippines.
Russia, however, is another story. As the time of this article’s publication, a Russian naval fleet — the largest since the Cold War and consisting of an aircraft carrier and anti-warship submarines — is sailing toward Syria, where diplomatic efforts between Washington and the Kremlin have cratered and the violence in Aleppo has reached month-long highs.
The seriousness of the situation has been acknowledged at all levels, with President Obama himself admitting the lethality of the Russian military.
“We think that Russia is a large, important country with a military that is second only to ours and has to be a part of the solution on the world stage rather than part of the problem,” he said at a news conference on Tuesday. “But their behavior has undermined international norms and international rules in ways we have to call them out on,” he said.
The U.S. will no doubt continue to “call them out,” even as Russian war machines push toward the Mediterranean Sea and — if nothing changes in the interim — inevitable, all-out warfare with the United States in Syria. As such, watch for other countries to start following the Philippines’ play in the coming days and pick a side while they still have the option to do so.
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The Philippines President is a total idiot. He is as bad as the idiot in N. Korea and Putin. The USA has protected the Philippines ever sence before WW2. We have economically supported them for many years.
Let us take into account the entire facts. While the US has helped the Philippines its businessmen have also profited from their economic ventures in the country. We have made a lot of your rich countrymen more rich. While you give to us you also take from us. The military exercises that you do in our country a lot of the suppliers are also Americans so much of the money put in these exercises also goes to American pockets. You have extracted a lot of our minerals for your industries. You have given us outdated military equipment which we paid from you. The Philippine president asked you if you will fight for our rights in the south china sea you said no. When Filipinos goes to your country they need visa whereas you can go to our country without visa. We are a treaty ally and staunch supporter of the US yet non treaty allies like Egypt and Pakistan and others get more money and better military aid. Perhaps you should do the maths of who gets more from the alliance. Americans who commit crimes in our country for the past several decades are freed thru diplomatic means and money whereas our countrymen suffer your legal system. You don’t treat us as equal partners but like subjects or poor relatives. We appreciate the friendship but you also do a lot of things for your country’s interest..
Rather a simple and one sided comment….but hey: you’re an American
The usual bunch of war mongers & when they get upset they send young men off to fight their battles . Jehovah God will soon be kicking them off his planet . Dan 2:44
Beginning of new world order.
Bullshit Yankees…
Got a BAD leader in the Philippines now. What a shame!!!
Totaly brainwashed.
Lines drawn in the sand… Maybe when free energy is leaked and developed, the greedy will fall by the wayside. As far as GMO’s and non-pharmaceutical healthcare, a citizens of the world organization will have to push them out. Just think what would happen to human beings without the Military Industrial complex being able to distribute drugs to fund their weapons and war agenda, local organic farms, etc.
> 23 Oct 2016
In an ancient China of never ending war it had seen all sort of games
and trickery played a long long time ago
There was once a schemer offered his arm to be chopped off and
went over to their enemy camp like a cry baby
He cooked up a story that his emperor had chopped off his arm
He escaped being killed and now he wanted to switch side
It ended the enemy kingdom was betrayed and got run over by the
crook scheme
SO
Do we or can we believe China will get played by this political rookie
China will NEVER view this guy of any subsequence
China will at most pay off Philippines to play off the Americans
.
This could have been prevented had you brought me inside sooner…
History shows that when a country aligns itself with Russia and China, poverty follows: See: East Germany. Vietnam. Cuba. North Korea. The new Phillipino President is an idiot and the rest of Asia (except for North Korea), will leave the Phillipines in the economic dust in a few years.