7 SEPTEMBER 2007

THE STRANGE CHINA-PHILIPPINES MILITARY COOPERATION

On September 3, Caroline shared one article http://e.sinchew-i.com/content.phtml?sec=2&artid=200709030008& sdate=

In that article, it is said that China is Beijing to give USD 6.6 million grant to Philippine military and that exchange of military students was on discussion after a five day goodwill visit by the Chinese Defense minister Cao Gangchuan.

That is a funny thing. For what that money ? The Philippines military have two kinds of problems :
1) To keep the Philippines sovereignty, and the main is with China in the Spratly island
2) To fight the inside insurrections and one of the main ones is the communist one.

On April 1967 (At the peak of China Cultural Revolution), the maoist Jose Maria Sison was expelled from the pro-Moskow PKP (Partido Komunista ng Filipinas) and on December 26, 1968 (the Mao 75th birthday) founded (he said restored) the Communist Party of Philipines (CCP) based on the Marxist-Leninist-Mao Zedong Thought.

On 1969, to follow the Mao strategy of a protracted people based on peasantry, he founded the NPA (New People Army), maoist oriented, but independent from Bejing, always very active in the Philippines even weakended by splits after Cory Aquino restored democracy (I met JMS at that time of truce)

Two points :

1) At the difference of other southeast Asia insurgencies, the NPA was independent from Beijing

2) Following Cao visit, is it a link ? on September 5 2007, President Macapagal-Arroyo signed amnesty proclamation 1377 for rhe CCP and NPA members for crimes commited on political beliefs.

Here a recent picture of Jose Maria Sison in the Netherland were he took refuge



Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/08 06:42<br><br>Post edited by: Jacques, at: 2007/09/08 10:10