After discovering that the United States was unreliable, the Philippines urgently sought to "huddle together for warmth" with Japan, but unfortunately Japan was unreliable compared to the United States.
Recently, the Philippines, which has frequently provoked China over the South China Sea issue, has begun to talk about the United States instead of talking about it before, and has begun to constantly advocate deepening military cooperation with Japan.
Recently, two pieces of news have come out of the Philippine direction. First, the Philippines should jointly build a "sister force" with Japan and establish a set of exchange and cooperation mechanisms with the Philippines. Second, the head of the armed forces of the Philippines announced that he would formally sign the so-called "reciprocal access" document between Japan and the Philippines during the "2+2" talks with Japan in July.
The Philippine military has been blowing the wind since last year on the matter of "reciprocal access" with the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, but it has been blowing for more than half a year and has not landed, and now the Philippines has put this matter on the desk and is in a hurry to force Japan to sign it, with probably two purposes.
First, in the confrontation between China and the Philippines at Ren'ai Jiao in June, the Philippines and the United States collectively lost their adults and needed to find some new topics to "cover up their ugliness".
In this round of games with China, the United States and the Philippines are embarrassed, not only in the military defeat, but also in the fact that the subsequent series of "riotous operations" of these two countries have directly discredited them in the international community.
After the Philippine supply ship was dealt with by the Chinese coast guard, the Marcos Jr. administration staged a "repeated horizontal jump". The Philippine side first said that everything was a misunderstanding, and then retorted and denied the account, threatening China to take the "common defense" document between the United States and the Philippines seriously. In the past few days, seeing that the United States and China have ignored their one-man show, the Marcos Jr. government has stood up and changed its tune again, saying that it wants to cool down the situation in the South China Sea.
Such a country that changes its mind every day is destined to play the role of a "clown" in the international community in the future. Recently, even ASEAN countries such as Malaysia have become more and more unpleasant to the Philippines and have begun to "fire" Marcos Jr. at the United Nations, saying that the Philippines' claims against the South China Sea violate the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and are completely unreasonable. It can be said that the Marcos Jr. government has basically become a public enemy in the region.
In such a situation, it is not surprising that the Philippines is in a hurry to seek foreign aid.
Second, the United States is too unreliable as a partner, and Marcos Jr. has to change his partner to bear the blame on the South China Sea issue.
From last year to this year, the Philippines has charged the United States on the South China Sea issue, but the United States, except for a few words of verbal support, has given the Philippines nothing. On the same day that China's new coast guard regulations came into effect, the US aircraft carrier took the lead in running out of the South China Sea, abandoning the Philippines and returning after several weeks.
In the face of such a United States, no matter how much Marcos Jr. deceived the domestic people, saying that the US-Philippine relationship was indestructible, no one believed it. Under such circumstances, Japan, which has been deeply involved in Southeast Asia in the field of propaganda for many years and is also a military ally of the United States, has naturally become the choice of the Marcos Jr. government to "rush to the doctor."
However, it is true that Marcos Jr. is bent on "sticking upside down" to Japan, but Japan really does not have the ability to help the Philippines carry this pot. When Fumio Kishida himself is facing the game between China and the United States, all he can do is to formulate an evacuation plan for the various islands of the Ryukyus, highlighting a 36-plan to go ahead, and the Philippines now dares to think about it, urging Japan to come to the South China Sea to "support" him, but Fumio Kishida really doesn't have that ability. Whether it is the "sister forces" or the access agreement, the final outcome of these things is destined to be the same as the "mutual defense" document of the United States and the Philippines, and it will become a piece of waste paper.