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In order to show loyalty to the United States, the Philippines has taken great pains. In order to divert the domestic demand for rice, they also tried their best to divert the domestic demand for rice, but the problem of rice shortage still exists, and Marcos does not solve it for a day, and his son does not want to take over.
The Philippines in the South China Sea is constantly stirring up trouble. The reason is very simple, because the current Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has a mess of internal affairs, and there is a discord with former President Duterte. Originally, the two sides agreed that Duterte's daughter would be the next president of the Philippines, but now Marcos has officially parted ways in order to train his son to succeed him, and everyone has a very clear position.
Marcos encouraged Filipinos to grow crops of high economic value. For example, bananas and other fruits. Crops with high economic value can be sold for a lot of money, and the farmers' profits will naturally increase. But he forgot one thing, the Philippines is also a country that needs to live on rice. Everyone is going to grow fruits, and the rice production cannot meet the domestic demand of the Philippines, and the Philippines has to import rice from other countries, and these major rice exporters themselves have encountered the same problem, so the price of imported rice is very high.
But Marcos, in order not to let the people's grievances boil, also publicly said that the price of rice should not exceed much. But the problem is that businessmen are always businessmen, and how much they import and how much profit they make cannot be controlled. So now Filipinos have a problem even having enough to eat, and this is a secret that Marcos dare not say, so he has to shift the focus.
This problem has been happening since Marcos took office not long ago. Because the period of high-economy fruit planting is relatively short, it is harvested quickly, and after harvesting, it is found that the land where rice was originally planted is planted with fruit, and the amount of rice is not enough. So he began to export to domestic sales, and constantly sent ships to stir up trouble on Ren'ai Jiao, and after picking up trouble, he found that Ren'ai Jiao might not be a target to deal with, so he had to go to other islands and reefs, such as Iron Line Reef, to do hydrological research, and the results were all Philippine coast guard members and marines.
Therefore, the Philippines' intentions are really very sinister. In order to divert the focus of the country, he did not hesitate to make trouble in the South China Sea, intending to expand the entire South China Sea incident. In addition, the Filipino people do not want the US military to be stationed in the Philippines and interfere in Philippine affairs, so many people came out to protest and held signs to protest, which also caused a lot of pressure on Marcos. Marcos is now anxious about his son's smooth succession, and the United States is desperately beckoning Marcos to come to the United States to talk. Therefore, in order to show loyalty to the United States, Marcos desperately performed in the South China Sea, and did not hesitate to send ships out to harass him. As a result, it was attacked by the water cannons of mainland coast guard ships, and there were even Philippine ships that could not stand the beating because they were attacked by water cannons, and they raised white flags and surrendered.
The Philippines is really under-accomplished and more defeated. I don't know how many pounds and taels I weigh. If they don't give up on the matter of Ren'ai Reef and stir up trouble on other reefs, don't they know that their strength is only like this?
In order to show loyalty to the United States, the Philippines has taken great pains. In order to divert the shortage of domestic rice demand, they also tried their best, but the problem of lack of rice still exists, and if Marcos does not solve it in a day, his son will not want to take over. After all, the people take food as the sky, and if the people of the Philippines don't even have rice for dinner, the public support will not be raised. Therefore, Marcos still gives priority to solving the problem of domestic rice shortage, and does not always stir up trouble over there and make trouble for no reason. This is also not good for the international image of the Philippines.
In particular, it has cooperated with the United States in carrying out an "arbitration agreement in the South China Sea" and turned Taiwan's Taiping Island into a reef again. A reef can become an island, but an island must become a reef. This is international political wrestling. The Americans instigated these little brothers in the Philippines to do their best. It doesn't matter, you can continue to do it, but justice can always triumph over the evil side.
After all, China's territorial claims to the South China Sea are inherently local. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, the countries of the world recognized it. Now it is because after the adoption of the "Law of the Sea" in 1982, there is an exclusive economic zone of 200 nautical miles, and everyone is desperately rushing to grab it.
Only China is doing it with heart. Now these countries have turned their backs and denied it, and the United States is a country that has not signed the Convention on the Law of the Sea, because its warships claim freedom of navigation and drive around. In order to meet his needs, the Philippines acts as a little brother, which is the real sorrow of a small country.
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