The Philippines consists of more than 7,000 islands with an area of 29970,000 square kilometers, equivalent to the size of a medium-sized province. Due to its location in the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea, it is also a multi-ethnic country that integrates many Eastern and Western customs and habits due to its geographical location and historical reasons.
After the defeat of the Macabbebes, Spain began to colonize the Philippines, and according to research, the prehistoric Negritos may have been the earliest inhabitants of the Philippines, and then the migration of the Austronesian peoples brought Malay culture, Indian culture, Chinese culture and Islamic culture, including later Western culture. The ethnic composition is mainly Malay, and the ethnic minorities include Indonesians, Chinese, Arabs, and Spaniards. The official languages are English and Filipino, 838% of the inhabitants are Catholic.
In the Middle Ages, due to the thirst for pepper in the West, adventurers from the European maritime powers of Portugal and Spain sought new routes to the East. In 1521, Magellan made his first voyage to the Philippine island of Samar. Twenty-two years later, in 1543, the Spanish explorer Billy Lodges named the central Philippine islands the Philippine Islands in honor of the then Spanish Crown Prince Philip II in tribute to the then Crown Prince Philip II, and in the next 300 years, with the expansion of Spanish colonization, the name gradually covered more islands.
In February 1656, Legazit set out from Mexico to invade the Philippine Islands in two bands of 100 men each, easily defeating the indigenous army with its well-trained and well-equipped army, and gradually turning the central Philippines into a Spanish colony. After many battles, the chieftain of Cebu, Tupas, was forced to sign a treaty with Legazpi on April 27, 1565, recognizing Spanish rule. The origin of the name of the Philippines is King Philip II of Spain. In 1569, Legazpi was appointed Governor of the Philippines, under the jurisdiction of the Viceroy of Mexico.
At the end of the 19th century, the United States gradually developed and expanded, and its ambition to participate in the partition of the world became increasingly expanded. On April 25, 1898, the Spanish-American War broke out, and Spain was unable to resist the rising America. At dawn on May 1, 898, the U.S. Navy crushed the Spanish Asian Fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay. On August 13, the U.S. and Philippine forces launched a general offensive against Manila. After a slight resistance, the Spanish army surrendered. As soon as the fighting ended, the United States tore up the agreement and forced the Philippine rebels to withdraw to the suburbs by force. The U.S. military established the military ** and monopolized Manila. Under the blows of the rebel army, the Spanish colonial regime collapsed. In September 1898, the rebels convened a revolutionary parliament and adopted the constitution. The Republic of the Philippines was proclaimed on January 23, 1899.
World War II photos--- MacArthur landed in February of the same year, the United States launched a war of aggression against the Philippines to suppress the Philippine Revolution. In 1901, Aguinaldo was captured and surrendered, and the first bourgeois republic in Philippine history was strangled and the Philippines became a colony of the United States. The United States has adopted a neo-colonial policy in the Philippines that is different from that of the old colonizers, and since then the United States has established ** rule around the world by copying and pasting;Politically, it comprehensively introduced the American-style bourgeois political, judicial, and educational systems, and tried to cultivate the local landlord bourgeois ** group, gradually expand the latter's power to participate in politics, and finally give political independence, but maintain its own control. Economically, the Philippines has been dependent on the U.S. market and has become a source of capital raw materials and a commodity export market for the United States.
MacArthur, who claimed to be the savior of the Philippines, was a "colony" of the United States until the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 7, 1941, and in May 1942, the U.S. troops stationed in the Philippines surrendered to Japan, and Japanese militarism invaded the entire Philippines and established fascist rule on the island. In January 1945, the U.S. military returned to the island with the cooperation of the local people's anti-Japanese armed forces. On August 15 of the same year, Japan surrendered unconditionally, and the puppet ** announced its dissolution. On July 4, 1946, the United States granted independence to the Philippines, and at the same time, the two countries signed the "General Relations Treaty" and the "** Agreement" (i.e., the Bell Agreement), and the United States maintained a privileged position in the economic and political aspects of the Philippines.
To sum up, the Philippines, like many Asian countries, was subjected to Western colonial aggression and plunder in the early days, and after World War II, it moved towards independence in the national awakening, and some completely embarked on independence, such as China;Some have been colonized or taken into custody by the new generation, such as the Philippines and Japan. The reason why the United States attaches importance to the Philippines is not that it is friendly and loves the Philippines, but that it values its strategic location and cheap industrial raw materials. If a small country wants to dominate the big countries, it must maintain its sovereign independence, not get involved in conflicts between the big powers, and not choose sides or take sides, otherwise it is very likely to become pawns or cannon fodder in the game between the big powers.