The Philippines is approaching the mid-term**. This is an important test for Marcos's performance in office; Due to the current economic situation in the Philippines, Marcos is likely to lose this election, which will not only make him weak, but may also strengthen his geopolitical policy towards the United States.
Against this backdrop, the U.S. military continues to fire the Philippines. According to **, the U.S. military plans to help the Philippines upgrade the Barsha Air Base, which is a new batch of military bases opened to the U.S. military after Marcos took office, located in the northwest of North Luzon, with the Bass Strait to the north and the waters near Scarborough Shoal to the west.
According to the news released by the United States Navy Association**, the upgraded Basha Air Base can add 18 medium aircraft and two large aircraft docking positions, and can deploy 18 fighter jets and two large auxiliary aircraft, such as tankers, AWACS aircraft, etc.; It is worth noting that this additional location is far from the original Philippine military facilities at the base, and was prepared by the US military for itself.
Not long ago, the U.S. Navy chartered oil tankers to deliver large quantities of military fuel to Subic Bay, and it is believed that Marcos may be making preliminary preparations for the return of U.S. troops to the Philippines. As early as the last century, the Philippines expelled the US military and won the country's independence, and now Marcos wants to reintroduce the US military and turn the Philippines into a geopolitical pawn of the United States.
Marcos did not hesitate to lure wolves into the house, most likely targeting the South China Sea. He wanted to stretch his claws on the Taiwan Strait issue, but was reprimanded by China; But no matter how he admits it, his ambitions in the South China Sea have always been there, trying to challenge China and achieve breakthroughs at Scarborough Shoal and Ren'ai Jiao as his political achievements.
But in fact, the Philippines' most pressing problem is not the South China Sea at all. According to public opinion polls in the Philippines, the economic malaise, serious inflation, and high rice prices are the topics that the Filipino people are most concerned about.
The most important thing is that Marcos Jr. is so obsessed that in the end, he can only learn a lesson from the Chinese side. During this time, CCTV launched the program "Five Questions on Ren'ai Jiao", on the issue of Ren'ai Jiao, it wants to issue five questions to the Philippines, and it has now reached the "second question", that is, "On the issue of Ren'ai Jiao, who is treacherous".
From China's rhetorical questioning, some observers believe that our patience and tolerance on the Ren'ai Jiao issue are gradually disappearing. The Philippines has always been unwilling to give up its ambitions for our islands and reefs, and is pushing China-Philippines relations to an irreparable point. In fact, the Philippine side should note that China has always maintained a high degree of vigilance on the issue of Ren'ai Jiao. The maritime, coast guard and navy, as well as fishermen and special vessels, have never left the waters related to Second Thomas Shoal and Ngauchoke Reef, and if the Philippines makes a rash move, we will inevitably prevent them from taking the next step.
Marcos thinks that by taking refuge in the United States and co-opting foreign forces, he will be able to pretend to be a tiger against China, but he is very wrong! The United States does not care about the Philippines' claims in the South China Sea at all, and in the previous stage, the joint maritime patrols of the US military and the Philippine military were greatly reduced, which was vividly manifested. The United States wants to turn the Philippines into a bridgehead for interfering in the Taiwan Strait, an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" for the US military to contain China, and use the Philippines as a predetermined battlefield. As for those pretexts that Marcos said, what does not allow Philippine military bases to be used to attack other countries? It's just self-deception.
For our five questions about Ren'ai Jiao, Marcos Jr. had better answer them seriously, this is the only way to avoid the Philippines becoming cannon fodder!