Being right does not mean winning.

even if the CPP is totally sincere, that doesnt mean they are right. if they were, why havent they won is a wildly anti-materialist perspective. Also to be clear, they don’t blame China for all their problems. Again read their newspaper, they always frame it as the US trying to get the Philippines to go to a pointless war with China and that must be opposed.

Keep in mind also the Vietminh had the USSR and the starting point of Japanese occupation. Different circumstances.

Also how is mentioning aid to a military badfaith maoist shit? It is the same principle as opposing say giving Israel bulldozers or the Saudis medivac helis. Those aid the war, that is not civilians tech. Again you don’t have to agree that they shouldn’t, but it is woefully badfaith to act like it is shocking to view that as aid. Most of us here view non-combat roles in the US military to be wrong and part of imperialism. It is silly to say that that changes suddenly if it is the Philippines.

And again, you are saying the CPP handwave concerns over the US? They don’t. You seem to be approaching the entire situation with your mind made up. You decided already somehow that Sri Lanka’s military deals with China are a Maoist online conspiracy. You didn’t look into it, you just assumed. You find reddit Maoists annoying, so you decided that the majority of the CPP’s complaints are aimed at China.

Article from May 7th https://philippinerevolution.nu/2025/05/07/escalating-us-preparations-for-imperialist-war-against-china/ March 30th https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/reject-hegseth-and-the-us-deterrence-strategy-against-china/ November 29th 2024 https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/compatriots-ndfp-condemns-latest-u-s-schemes-to-drag-the-country-into-war-with-china-and-the-people-into-its-counterinsurgency-attacks/ November 12th 2024 https://philippinerevolution.nu/statements/oppose-us-nato-meddling-in-south-china-sea-affairs/

These maritime disputes between the Philippines and China can and must be resolved peacefully through dialogue and other diplomatic or legal methods. The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Seas (UNCLOS), to which both countries are signatories, should serve as the starting point. It is to the interest of the Filipino and Chinese people that an escalation of the conflict be avoided at all costs.

A number of neighboring countries in Southeast Asia have expressed support to the new Philippine maritime laws. By and large, these help bolster Philippine claims under the UNCLOS and strengthen the country’s position relative to China.

However, the statements of support coming from the US and its NATO allies in Europe (especially France and the UK), as well as Japan, are something that Filipinos should be wary of. These imperialist powers, historically and currently, are notorious for imposing their hegemony and meddling into the affairs of sovereign countries, including that of the Philippines.

Led by the imperialist US, these powers have actively been deploying their naval forces in the South China Sea over the past year. These naval deployments have exacerbated tensions and impeded peaceful dialogue. The Marcos puppet regime is acting as a pawn in the imperialist strategy by allowing the US to use the Philippines as a military stronghold, and deploy its own armed forces in US-led maritime operations and war exercises.

The Filipino people must remain vigilant over these insidious schemes. They must guard against efforts of the US-led imperialist powers that seek to create pretexts for provoking an armed conflict with their rival China, and drag the Philippines and the entire world into the quagmire of inter-imperialist war.

Childish bullshit about the people being slaughtered being feds is not a goodfaith criticism, nor is “well why haven’t you won?”. You can’t complain about western Maoists being chauvinists and then say blatantly dismissive chauvinistic shit. And yes I linked Reuters because while they have framing bias, you can corroborate from a major news source. Do you want me to find the official Chinese language press statement? You have no interest in facts, you have no interest in investigating. You couldn’t even be arsed to google about Sri Lanka’s military aid.

Case in point > proposed 800 million dollar dam (was it actually constructed? who fucking knows???)

Who knows? you can fucking look it up. It is still being debated over because it is controversial. As well as being an expensive project. You ask me for information, I provided multiple sources and starting points and you are complaining like a child not wanting to eat veggies. You can find over a dozen articles on that specific story. You are being absurd, the transaction happened, it is not some fantasy created from nothing.

Here is the Philippines government newspaper with a press release on it https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1011860

You are so blatantly in denial. “this never happened” shown a source “well I don’t like the source and wont bother corroborating it” also “and if it is true then it was actually not that important and so it doesn’t matter”. You are not interested in investigating, you only want to speak. Also on that specific story, if you read it you would understand that this was amidst the US cutting off an arms shipment to the Philippines. So the otherwise small donation was more significant than it may seem because it showed in action that China would not require concessions from the Philippines for shipments, something the US was doing cause they always do that. Not out of actual concern, but for the sake of maintaining dependency. China managed a coup de grace with this because while both are acting in their own interests, China armed Duterte without pretending to be concerned about his abuses, whereas the US actively works with his abuses and criminal actions but tries to save face.

Which goes to the thing you are not understanding. No one in the CPP is saying China is the bigger issue, I just gave you several examples from the horses mouth, but hey maybe the Filipinos are actually western Maoists from Austin this whole time, that would make navigating reality a lot easier for you. The reality is that the CPP views both as aggressive and self-interested at the expense of the Philippines, they do NOT view China as the larger or worse threat, but they do consider it to be aiding the government on account of it aiding the government.

Screaming “but the US gives more, and they are losers anyways” is not only childish, it misses the point. The CPP wants China to not arm the Philippines military. This is not contingent on if the US is giving more arms or not, this is not contingent on if you feel China is advancing socialism in its borders or not. There are two concerns here that are opposed, and one is at the expense of the other either way.

I don’t really care to moralize about the matter, but I do find it repugnant to so utterly dismiss the Filipino perspective and hint to them being feds or losers who are gonna lose anyways so who really cares, instead of being a materialist and examining China’s wants as a power and the Philippine revolution’s wants and goals and how those converge and how they clash. You are acting like a liberal who happens to prefer China.

And again these are examples of easy to find shit, that is not the extent of military spending or of aid. I am not your encyclopedia, and I cannot give you both nation’s financial records. And even if I could it seemingly would be useless given your attitude towards investigating anything. If you cannot navigate biased sources, then no source is ever gonna be good enough and you will sit in complete ignorance, never prodding, never learning and analyzing