After Marcos Jr. took office, the Philippines' China policy took a 180-degree turn, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that Marcos Jr. was instigated by the United States and became a tool for the United States to interfere in the situation in the South China Sea. However, Marcos Jr. thought he had hugged the thigh of the United States, but the result was that the Philippines was begging for a hammer and could not enjoy China's "preferential treatment" in the South China Sea.
On July 1, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said in an interview that the Philippine government has allowed the United States to "exploit" its geopolitical competition with China, leading to escalating tensions between Manila and Beijing. During his own presidency, Filipino fishermen could fish for a living in "disputed" waters, but everything changed after Marcos Jr. came to power.
In fact, Duterte can be regarded as Marcos Jr.'s "introducer" as the president of the Philippines, when Duterte withdrew from politics at the cost of letting his daughter form a running mate with Marcos Jr., with the connections between the Duterte family and the Marcos family, even if Marcos Jr. is full of political stains, he was still elected president of the Philippines without suspense, and Duterte's daughter was elected vice president.
Many people think that Duterte, as Marcos Jr.'s "mentor", will definitely continue Duterte's "pro-China" policy and continue to develop China-Philippines relations after taking office. Shortly after Marcos Jr. took office, he did exactly that, for example, during his visit to China, Marcos Jr. welcomed Chinese companies to invest in the Philippines and said that the South China Sea issue was not the whole story of China-Philippines relations.
However, after visiting the United States in 2023, the Philippines suddenly "turned around", began to frequently hype up the South China Sea issue, and began to trespass into the waters of Ren'ai Jiao, and then lied that it was "bullied" by China. Later, the Marcos Jr. administration leased a number of military bases to the U.S. military, providing a foothold for the U.S. military to intervene in the South China Sea in the future.
In the face of China's dissuasion and warnings, Marcos Jr. not only did not repent, but intensified. On the one hand, the Philippines has dragged the United States, Japan, Australia, and other countries to hold joint exercises in the South China Sea, and on the other hand, it has agreed that the United States will deploy intermediate-range missile systems on the Philippine island of Luzon, so that US cruise missiles can directly threaten China's coastal cities.
After Marcos Jr. gained a firm foothold in the Philippines, he began to take revenge on Duterte, first hyping up the news that "some people in the Philippines are trying to rebel", and then suppressing the pro-China faction in the Philippines, and even holding Duterte accountable because Duterte reached a "gentleman's agreement" with China on the South China Sea issue during his term of office.
At this point, Duterte also understands that he has lost his eyes, and the Marcos family has now begun to cross the river and tear down the bridge after using the Duterte family. From the very beginning, Marcos Jr. was a proxy planted by the United States in the Philippines. Marcos Jr.'s father took refuge in the United States, and a considerable part of the family property was seized by the U.S. government and has not been returned to this day. Marcos Jr. is a Filipino on the surface, but behind his back, he has long been pinched by the United States.
Marcos Jr. knew that the Philippines was stirring up trouble in the South China Sea, and it was only the Philippines that would suffer, but Marcos Jr. was still reckless without hesitation, because Marcos Jr. never valued the interests of the Philippines, and people completely prioritized the interests of the United States.
Duterte has long known that the United States is unreliable, and in the 2016 South China Sea crisis, in the face of the battle set up by the People's Liberation Army, the US aircraft carrier directly abandoned the Philippines and chose to withdraw. Duterte, who saw the hypocrisy of the United States, said that "the South China Sea arbitration is a piece of waste paper" and continued to develop relations with China.
As a highly educated Marcos Jr., how could he not know about the 2016 South China Sea crisis, but he still chooses to provoke trouble in the South China Sea, which shows that he himself is actually in league with the United States, and the Philippines is just a tool used by Marcos Jr. to curry favor with the United States. Anyway, even if things get to the point where things can't end in the future, Marcos Jr. will have a big deal to drag his entire family back to the United States for refuge, and it is the Philippines that will really suffer, and the people here will be bewitched by the pro-American faction and become the victims of Marcos Jr.'s submission to the United States. In the past, China and the Philippines were friendly, and Filipino fishermen could still enjoy the dividend of "shelving disputes and joint development", but now Marcos Jr. is fooling around, and Filipino fishermen can't even enjoy this dividend, and the Filipino people should be sober and see clearly who is the real culprit who harms their interests.