CPP: Philippines is a military pawn, not an ally of imperialist U.S.
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) today blasted the military alliance between the United States government and the Philippine state as nothing but “a big myth.” “The reality is that for the past 60 years of semicolonial rule, US imperialism have only used the Philippines as a pawn in its military interventionism, wars of aggression and power projection in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.”
The CPP issued this statement a day after the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the Philippines to mark the 60th anniversary of the Mutual Defense Treaty (MDT). In a ceremony aboard the USS Fitzgerald, Clinton and Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Alberto del Rosario signed “The Manila Declaration” where the US and Philippine governments reaffirmed the MDT and their supposed commitment to “address regional and global challenges, including maritime security and threats to security such as climate change, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and transnational crime.”
“Filled with rhetoric on ‘equality’ and ‘cooperation’, the Manila Declaration is nothing but a reaffirmation of the long-standing unequal military, political and economic relations between the Philippines and the US, between a semicolony and an imperialist power,” pointed out the CPP.
“The fact that the declaration was signed aboard an American naval shipped docked in Philippine waters in outright contempt of Philippine sovereignty is symbolic of the MDT as a document of prevailing neocolonial relations between the puppet Philippine government and its imperialist master.”
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