From the Website of PRWC CPP-NPA-NDF
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With new EDCA sites, PH to become US pawn in war strategy vs China
The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the Filipino people in condemning the Marcos regime for colluding with the United States in its plan to construct four more military bases in the country as part of its war preparations against China.
Yesterday, Malacañang announced that it has “approved” the “request” of the United States to have access to the following locations:
– Camilo Osias Naval Base in Sta. Ana town, Cagayan
– Lal-lo Airport in Lal-lo town, Cagayan
– Camp Melchor dela Cruz in in Gamu, Isabela
– Balabac island, southernmost island in Palawan province
Under
the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), military camps of
the AFP can serve as “agreed locations” where the US can construct its
own military facilities. The Lal-lo International Airport is not even a
military camp of the AFP. There is only a naval outpost in Balabac,
which will be surely be overran by the US Navy and transformed into a
giant foreign naval fortress, if the US plans push through.
Under
the EDCA, the US will enjoy extra-territorial rights within these
facilities, in which Philippine authorities will have no authority to
enter or inspect. The US can also freely use Philippine airspace and
radio waves on the pretext of going to and fro these bases and
facilities. The US military can store nuclear weapons in these
facilities in violation of the 1987 constitution, without the Filipino
people even knowing.
In addition to these EDCA sites, the US is
also set to use the ship building and repair facilities at the former
Subic Naval Base, which is now being operated by the Cerberus Company, a
US finance company that owns the private military contractor DynCorp
group.
By agreeing to let the US military construct more bases
and facilities in these sites, the Marcos regime is allowing the United
States to use the Philippines as a pawn in its war strategy against
China. The Indo-Pacific Security Strategy of the US government aims to
encircle China to stifle the growth of its economic and military power.
Marcos
is fooling Filipinos when he claimed yesterday that these US military
bases and facilities will be “used for humanitarian and relief
operations.” The so-called disaster response program of the US military
is, in fact, a big screen to obscure the aggressive push of the US to
extend and project its military power. To see through the lies of the
claim that these facilities will bring jobs to communities, one need
only to look at how US military bases in any part of the world have
promoted prostitution and other anti-social activities.
In all
likelihood, the US will construct facilities to launch long-range
missiles in one or more of these EDCA locations. Since 2021, the US
Indo-Pacific Command has been planning to construct a network of
ground-based missile launching systems along what it calls the “First
Island Chain” which includes Japan, Korea, the Philippines and other
islands closest to China.
The war theater preparations of the US
are centered on stoking Taiwan “independence” in order to provoke China
to “own the starting gun” and thus justify its plans to “come to
Taiwan’s defense.” In such an event, the Lal-lo international airport
will likely serve as a launching pad and rear service area for US jet
fighters that will be used by the US in its war against China.
The
planned construction of these US military bases will further raise the
possibility of the Philippines, as well as Japan, Korea and other
countries, being pulled into the vortex of the war being provoked by the
US, in much the same way that the US has been using Ukraine as a pawn
against Russia. These facilities will endanger the lives of Filipinos,
especially in the provinces of Cagayan, Isabela and Palawan, as these
will certainly serve as magnets that will attract Chinese action or
counteraction.
Amid these US imperialist machinations and threats
of war, the Filipino people’s freedom and life are at stake. It is
urgent for the Filipino people to stand up, fight for genuine
sovereignty and denounce the subservience of the Marcos regime.
It
is the patriotic duty of Filipinos to oppose the plan the construct
more US military bases and facilities in the country, demand the
dismantling of all other US military facilities, demand the abrogation
of all unequal military treaties with the US, and demand independence
and neutrality in foreign policy.
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