Despite the Aquino government’s position that the deployment of US spy planes over the West Philippines Sea will not aggravate China, the militant youth organization League of Filipino Students believe otherwise.
The Aquino government is insincere in resolving the PH-China dispute over Scarborough Shoal through diplomatic relations. Yesterday, they released a statement giving full support to Sonia Brady, the Philippine ambassador to China, in pursuing talks and consultations to settle the standoff.
However, on the same day, news of Aquino’s plea for deployment of US spy planes to monitor the West Philippine Sea also broke out.
While the Department of Foreign Affairs boasts of its thrust to negotiate the issue through diplomacy, Aquino, on the other hand, shows insincerity in resolving the dispute altogether by dragging US support on the matter. The possible deployment of spy planes is just an addition to the well-orchestrated US narrative as a sloppy excuse to maintain permanence in the region.
Nearing its 3rd month, the Scarborough row between the Philippines and China must be seen within the context that early in 2012, the US planned to re-balance its military forces in Asia-Pacific. Since then, the Filipino people have witnessed the outright puppetry of the Aquino government; intensely manifested by the following accounts:
On July 4, the Philippines will be celebrating the US-Philippine Friendship Day. But there’s no reason to celebrate. The relationship that the Philippines have with US is that of a dog being dragged by the chains of neo-colonialism by its imperialist master.
On Aquino’s third SONA, the League of Filipino Students calls on the youth and Filipino people who have preferential love for the country and freedom to march as one to break away from shackles that bound us to slavery, poverty, and the litany of capitalist imperatives. We need to collectively put a dead end to Aquino’s “tuwid na daan” of puppetry, and struggle for true national liberation, sovereignty, and patrimony.
(via lfs.ph)
The Aquino government is insincere in resolving the PH-China dispute over Scarborough Shoal through diplomatic relations. Yesterday, they released a statement giving full support to Sonia Brady, the Philippine ambassador to China, in pursuing talks and consultations to settle the standoff.
However, on the same day, news of Aquino’s plea for deployment of US spy planes to monitor the West Philippine Sea also broke out.
While the Department of Foreign Affairs boasts of its thrust to negotiate the issue through diplomacy, Aquino, on the other hand, shows insincerity in resolving the dispute altogether by dragging US support on the matter. The possible deployment of spy planes is just an addition to the well-orchestrated US narrative as a sloppy excuse to maintain permanence in the region.
Nearing its 3rd month, the Scarborough row between the Philippines and China must be seen within the context that early in 2012, the US planned to re-balance its military forces in Asia-Pacific. Since then, the Filipino people have witnessed the outright puppetry of the Aquino government; intensely manifested by the following accounts:
- Monthly top-level talks between US-PH officials, the most recent of which is the meeting between Aquino and Obama on the first week of June which translated to the forging of US Senate Resolution 481, assuring greater cooperation between US-PH in the context of the territorial row between China,
- The inter-operationability of US Armed Forces (USAF) and Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) through the recently resumed Balikatan exercises, and the sustained US military presence (and operations) in Camp Navarro which houses some 600 members of USAF,
- The frequent port calls of US nuclear warships; drone flights over PH airspace “for reconnaissance purposes” which allegedly killed jihadists in Sulu; the presence of the largest defense contractor for US nuclear warships (AMSEC-Huntington Ingalls) in Subic that has provided for “replenishment of supplies” of the USS North Carolina and USS Louisville; the construction of the National Coast Watch Center or radar that will determine intrusions in the West Philippine Sea; and, last but definitely not the least, Aquino’s most recent request for spy planes for surveillance and monitoring of the West Philippine Sea.
- Possible railroading of the Philippine Senate of the PH-Australia Status of Visiting Forces Agreement (SOVFA) upon resumption of session. Austraila has been hailed as the “junior partner” in terms of military relations and close ally in the re-balancing of forces in the region.
On July 4, the Philippines will be celebrating the US-Philippine Friendship Day. But there’s no reason to celebrate. The relationship that the Philippines have with US is that of a dog being dragged by the chains of neo-colonialism by its imperialist master.
On Aquino’s third SONA, the League of Filipino Students calls on the youth and Filipino people who have preferential love for the country and freedom to march as one to break away from shackles that bound us to slavery, poverty, and the litany of capitalist imperatives. We need to collectively put a dead end to Aquino’s “tuwid na daan” of puppetry, and struggle for true national liberation, sovereignty, and patrimony.
(via lfs.ph)
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