Text/Zhan Hai
According to a report by Huanqiu.com, Marcos Jr., who has been running wild all the way on the anti-China road, recently participated in the "trilateral talks" between the leaders of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines at the White House in the United States. This meeting can be said to be the Philippines' "food trip", and Marcos Jr. finally said his crazy anti-China purpose before this visit to the United States: to obtain at least $100 billion in investment from the United States and Japan.
(Marcos Jr. attends trilateral talks between the United States, Japan and the Philippines)
Therefore, Marcos Jr. spared no effort to smear China with the United States and Japan at the meeting, and even pointed fingers, smeared and attacked the East China Sea and Taiwan Strait issues in the joint statement. He firmly believes that he will be able to "get the meal" this time, and he is "very confident" in the investment of the United States and Japan. However, there are still "good things" reporters who asked him whether the Philippines following the United States and Japan all the way to provoke China will affect China's investment in the Philippines? Marcos Jr. can still say that it will not affect China as if no one is fine.
(Can't affect China? This is likely to be Marcos Jr.'s pretending to be stupid)
Marcos Jr. said this at a time when China's big stick had not yet fallen, but if he thought that China would only send coast guard ships to "teach the Philippines" a lesson with high-pressure water cannons at sea, then he would be too lacking in political common sense. Other countries do not say, let's say they the Philippines, before his predecessor Duterte came to power, in the later period of Aquino III's administration, the Sino-Philippine relations were a mess, Filipinos found that their agricultural products exported to China could not be sold, and the number of Chinese tourists also plummeted, you must know that at that time, Chinese tourists could spend nearly 1,000 yuan per person in the Philippines every day, and the number of Chinese tourists lost in the Philippines every day was in the hundreds.
(Chinese tourists have become one of the main sources of tourists in the Philippines)
At that time, Philippine fruits could not enter Chinese ports even if they were rotten on ships, and some Philippine media reported that the livelihoods of at least 200,000 Filipino banana workers had been affected. These are also direct impacts, and the losses caused by these losses to the Philippine stock market and the entire domestic market are even more serious than those that are difficult to fully calculate.
(The Philippines has already suffered an anti-China loss before)
On the one hand, the $100 billion "pie" drawn by the United States and Japan has not yet been eaten; on the other hand, if Marcos Jr. "continues to die," it cannot be ruled out that China's sanctions will come soon, and the impact on the Philippines this time will definitely be more serious than that of the Aquino period. Because China and the Philippines re-established friendly relations during the Duterte era, China became the Philippines' largest trading partner as early as 2019, and the total trade volume between the two sides continued to increase. Anyone can see that the Philippine economy is likely to suffer a "severe beating" in the future. Marcos Jr.'s statement that it will not affect Sino-Philippine trade is simply opening his eyes and telling nonsense.
(Marcos Jr. died, and it was Filipino farmers who suffered)
As the heir of a political family, Marcos Jr. is obviously not stupid enough to think so, and he is obviously saying this to comfort his own people. His political alliance with the Duterte family has almost broken down because of his anti-China moves, and the Filipino people are waiting to see how the farce he caused will end. Now that China has not reacted to the Philippines, he can naturally pretend to be stupid, but when China's sanctions sledgehammer officially falls, I believe that his presidential career will also be challenged.