At the risk of starting a struggle session, what’s the deal with China’s supposed abandonment of them and support of the Duterte regime? Honest question, since I’ve seen hardline Maoists list this as one of their main grievances towards the PRC today.
Pretty straightforward actually from what I’ve heard from some Filipino comrades, I’ll do my best to briefly explain here:
China would rather pull the Philippines out of the US sphere of influence, and for the time being and that was easier than ever with Duterte being as reactionary as he is. Very easy way to win favor was to drop the support of the rebels.
Now IMO this is tragic because naturally the Philippines would fall from the US sphere if they had a communist revolution, but one point I do see here is that they likely would never be allowed to have a successful revolution within the US sphere.
At the risk of starting a struggle session, what’s the deal with China’s supposed abandonment of them and support of the Duterte regime? Honest question, since I’ve seen hardline Maoists list this as one of their main grievances towards the PRC today.
Pretty straightforward actually from what I’ve heard from some Filipino comrades, I’ll do my best to briefly explain here:
China would rather pull the Philippines out of the US sphere of influence, and for the time being and that was easier than ever with Duterte being as reactionary as he is. Very easy way to win favor was to drop the support of the rebels.
Now IMO this is tragic because naturally the Philippines would fall from the US sphere if they had a communist revolution, but one point I do see here is that they likely would never be allowed to have a successful revolution within the US sphere.