China, ether out of self-confidence, or past alliances with Philippines, or just patience has not gone overboard in reactions to USA aiming missiles at China from PH. But Chinese officials are furious at the betrayal and the basic indecency of the USA/Philippines putting Tomahawk nuclear-capable missiles within 200 km of its shores. Will this be another missile crisis on the scale of Cuban Missile Crisis? China has said the move “brought huge risks of war into the region”.
Analysis and news by Micheal John and Sharon Santiago
Imagine if China did this to the Genocide Joe administration—put intermediate range Tomahawk missile equivalents on an island off the coast of the USA eastern Seaboard?
The indefinite deployment of the US Typhon missile system in the Philippines marks a significant step to counter China’s influence in the Pacific, escalating regional tensions and intensifying political divisions within the Philippines and the incipient hot war between the United States and China over who should control the technology valleys of China’s Taiwan island. Rifts in the Philippines include Vice President Sara Duterte resigning all her government Cabinet posts and assuming the role of an opposition VP.
BRICKS insight: Rest assured this issue will explode sometime after 5 November if not sooner.
Tropical Storm Trami leaves at least 115 dead and many are missing in the Philippines while other more fearful threats loom on Luzon Island, say activists against the exploitation of the vulnerable Marcos dynasty to use PH as a platform for war with China.
Activists now under heavy attack by PH Government
Amnesty International Philippines has urged the government to set ground rules for social media firms that are being used by some state forces to harass activists in a 75-page report released on 14 October. Citing: Gov’t using social media to harass activists – report
“I Turned My Fear Into Courage,” report focused on how online platforms such as Meta’s Facebook, the leading social media network in the Philippines offering free data connection to smartphone users, were being used by some government agencies to Red-tag human rights defenders. “I turned my fear into courage”: Red-tagging and state violence against young human rights defenders in the Philippines – Philippines | ReliefWeb
“Over the years, red-tagging has been used to instigate direct threats and attacks on those who criticize and oppose the government and Meta is playing an enabling role in this and is also helping to elect governments in the Philippines for the Parties most able to spend money on Facebook Ads.”
Around the world, experts are in agreement. The Philippines is not a safe place to live and will likely be attacked the moment Americans start lobbing missiles from there. PH ranks last in safest country rankings — Across the Islands
Tensions are heating up against the Philippines as the U.S. and Philippines governments do everything possible to antagonize the China side.
Last Tuesday, following China’s massive display of military might near its Taiwan Island, the armed forces of the U.S. and Philippines commenced extensive joint exercises with major allies. These exercises occured in various locations across the Philippines, some of which are adjacent to Taiwan. The military and naval drills ran until Friday.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile at a target in Syria from the U.S. 5th Fleet on 14 April 2018. The Laboon was deployed with the U.S. 5th Fleet in support of alleged maritime security operations to reassure allies and preserve the freedom of navigation and the free flow of commerce in the region. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kallysta Castillo. Photo is cropped. Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
“This is an extremely serious matter,” says Simon Baldock, a security analyst who was asked to prepare a report for a global women’s nuclear disarmament group calling itself, “Voices“.
Watch Trump Administration U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper explain which intermediate range missiles will be installed in Southeast Asia, “Let’s be clear about this, we are not talking about conventional weapons.”
Clearly Biden has been using the Republican war playbook?
Sideline Chatter at BRICS Summit last Week included the “Marcos Missile Crisis”
Bongbong Marcos a.k.a. Ferdinand Marcos both at home and abroad does not have a reputation for being the brightest light in the Marcos kleptocratic dynasty which as a kleptocratic regime once crashed the Philippines into insolvency and walked away with billions they are allegedly still hoarding away. “The elder Marcos was first elected president in 1965, but his rule swiftly descended into a kleptocratic dictatorship,” writes Timothy McLaughlin in The Atlantic.
“Only in the Philippines could a leader like Ferdinand Marcos, who pillaged his country for over 20 years, still be considered for a national burial,” Singapore’s founding father Lee Kwan Yew wrote in his 2000 legacy book, From Third World to First.
“Insignificant amounts of the loot have been recovered, yet his wife and children were allowed to return and engage in politics.” Citing: What Is Behind The Resurgence Of The Marcos Dynasty? | The ASEAN Post
A U.S. court has required President Bongbong Marcos a.k.a. Ferdinand Jr. to pay $353.6 million – the largest ever award for a [USA] contempt case — for violating a US court order not to dissipate their assets, which have been earmarked as compensation for victims of the martial law imposed by Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in the 1970s. Citing Inquirer.
The Philippine Supreme Court ruled three times that Ferdinand Marcos must give back millions he stole from his country. In one such order, “Petitioner Republic presented not only a schedule indicating the lawful income of the Marcos spouses during their incumbency but also evidence that they had huge deposits beyond such lawful income in Swiss banks under the names of five different foundations. We believe petitioner was able to establish the prima facie presumption that the assets and properties acquired by the Marcoses were manifestly and patently disproportionate to their aggregate salaries as public officials.” Citing: The Philippine Supreme Court ruled three times that Ferdinand Marcos must give back millions he stole from his country | Fact Check
“Shortly after winning the presidency of the Philippines in May of 2022, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr took his first congratulatory call from a foreign head of state. U.S. President [Genocide Joe] Biden was on the line.” How the U.S. courted the Philippines to thwart China
Court actions continue today in various statuses but are stayed while Marcos is president for six years.
Sources in Washington DC outright claim that the slippery Genocide Joe Biden blackmailed Bongbong Marcos and his family into allowing the USA to point missles at China from the Philippines. One diplomat in the U.S. State department, who doesn’t want to be named, spilled, when asked, ‘Did Biden blackmail Marcos into allowing Biden to put nukes pointed at China into the Philippines?’ The answer was, “Why the ‘F’ would anyone do something like that to the Filipinos unless they were under the gun? Of course, Biden blackmailed that fool who is up to his ‘A’ in stolen loot here and all over the world. [Likely referring to alleged Marcos family stashes in Swiss, Caymen and many unknown banks.]
This referenced reliable source triggered a quest for backup. In ten months, 4 persons who identify as Republicans and 22 persons within the Democrat Party or other officialdom, all as elected, appointed or employed officials in Washington DC—some even from the U.S. security establishment in DC and other cities—confirmed off-the-record the allegation that Biden blackmailed Bongbong Marcos—some say Biden even jokes about this—into the USA military occupation of bases on Luzon Island and elsewhere in the Philippines in a bid for war against China. One even said, “Biden could have had Marcos arrested and sent to prison back in 2021 and 2022 for a long time on a massive contempt order against him. What do you think a billionaire would do to stay out of an American Prison for the rest of his life? Don’t answer that. Biden is a White-Anglo Supremacist through and through. A ‘wog‘ like Marcos is a servant to Biden in Biden’s mind.”
There are factors that discredit this story and how it spread. Washington DC is its own rumour mill, and Americans love to gossip especially in the deep end. The other is that a large percentage of Americans would literally freak-out at the idea that Biden and the Washington elite of the deep state were planning a war with China. Why? Because China can hit the USA homeland in a devastating fashion with the press of a button.
The Marcos Regime has returned to put the Philippines into extreme danger. America is back in PH since getting the boot in 1990 and it is going to make war against China from PH unless it is stopped.
During sideline conversations at the BRICS 2024 16th Summit, a matter of discussion was the Typhoon intermediate missile system, which can launch nuclear-warhead-capable Tomahawk missiles up to 2,500 kilometers at China which is what U.S. Forces are planning to do from the Philippines’ Luzon Island, reports an FPM stringer who attended the Summit. A comparison in conversations was made to the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.
Following this embarrassment among the many official delegates to the BRICS summit from China, meetings are taking place in Beijing and in coastal cities this week to discuss further ramifications of the ‘Marcos Missile Crisis‘ and the action needed.
Allegedly the missile systems aimed at Chinese territory were to be removed after training exercises in April 2024 but since then the USA has decided to keep the missiles on Philippines islands which completes an encirclement around China to which the USA hopes to add Taiwan island.
China is a full partner of BRICS and a permanent member of the UN Security Council
BRICS 2024 22-24 October Attendee full members and partners.
- Brazil
- Russia
- India
- China
- South Africa
- Egypt
- Ethiopia
- Iran
- United Arab Emirates
- Official BRICS partner countries pending full membership
Belarus
Bolivia
Cuba
Indonesia
Kazakhstan
Malaysia
Nigeria
Thailand
Turkey
Uganda
Uzbekistan
Vietnam
Among the Chinese officials present were:
CAI Qi – Head of the Chancellery of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China
VAN I – Head of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Committee Central Committee of the Communist Party, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
JIANG Jinquan – Head of the Office of the Political Affairs Commission Studies of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China Republic
ZHENG Shanjie – Chairman of the State Committee of the People’s Republic of China of the Republic for Development and Reform
Fallow deer Foan – Minister of Finance of the People’s Republic of China
VAN Wentao – Minister of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China
PAN Gongsheng – Governor of the People’s Bank of China
MUM Zhaoxu – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Republic
ZHANG Hanhui – Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China of the Republic in the Russian Federation
KUN Shaoxun – Deputy Head of the Central Committee Office Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China
ZHOU Hongxu – Head of the Central Security Administration of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China
HAN Shimin – Deputy Head of the Office of the Central Committee Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China
LÜ Luhua – Assistant to the President of the People’s Republic of China
HUA Chunying – Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China of the Republic, Director of the Department of Information, Mass Communications and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Republic
MIAO Deyu – Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
LIU Binh – Director of the Department of Europe and Central Asia of the Ministry of the People’s Republic of China
HOON Lei – Director of the Protocol Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
WHETHER Xiaohua – Head of the Department of the Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China for Foreign Affairs
JIANG Peng is the head of the department of the office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the People’s Republic of China for Foreign Affairs
CHENG Ikun – Deputy Director of the Europe and Central Asia Department Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China
JU Jia – Deputy Director of the Department of Information, Mass Communications and Public Diplomacy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China Republic
Cuban Missile Crisis was well-remembered in sideline talks at BRICS
As history.com recalls the event, “During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John F. Kennedy (1917-63) notified Americans about the presence of the missiles, explained his decision to enact a naval blockade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was prepared to use military force if necessary to neutralize this perceived threat to national security. Following this news, many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s (1894-1971) offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba. Kennedy also secretly agreed to remove U.S. missiles from Turkey.”
China has expressed its opposition to the American aggression and the Philippines Betrayal
What does China see? The intermediate range missile launchers are likely less than 90 miles from China from time to time.
The northernmost province of the Philippines is Batanes, and one of its islands, Mavudis, is the nearest part of the Philippines to Taiwan. Mavudis is just 99km from Orchid Island (a.k.a. Lanyu, 蘭嶼) and about 142km from Oluanpi (鵝鑾鼻), Taiwan Island proper’s southernmost tip. Mavudis is closer to Taiwan island than the Philippines capital Manila, which is 733 km away from Mavudis, and the distance from Manila to the nearest shore of China’s Taiwan island (New Taipei City) is approximately 985 kilometers (612 miles) in a straight line, to put it all in perspective.
Taiwan is an island of China. United States’ military installations in the Philippines archipelago opposing China, both permanent and mobile, stretch from just a dozen or so kilometers north of Baguio City to Batanes (and its islands between Taiwan and Luzon) on Luzon Island. Additionally, Palawan Island bases oppose China and missile launchers are likely to be in that vicinity as well. Guidance and tracking facilities are certainly present.
The United States has expanded its encirclement of China with over 400 military bases to include about fifteen in the Philippines including various arrangements for Subic Bay and Clark ‘air base’ as U.S. troops call Clark. The latter two are currently outside the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement but comprise alleged dual use ‘common courtesies’. Have you seen Subic Bay lately?
The medium range capability (MRC) missile launcher named Typhoon is loaded into a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III for deployment from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington state, 4 April 2024 and headed for the Philippines, Clark airport, USA section. U.S. Army photo by Capt. Ryan DeBooy. Photo is cropped. Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Late night under cover of darkness, GMT+8 Beijing China time in the AM of 7 April 2024 the flight that left on a cloudy afternoon from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington state, 4 April 2024, the Typhoon intermediate range missile launcher arrives in Philippines and is unloaded by U.S. troops. U.S. DoD Photo. Photo is cropped. Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement
New sites included in the expansion programme over the past nearly two years, since 1 February 2023, include Naval Base Camilo Osias in Santa Ana, Cagayan; Camp Melchor Dela Cruz in Gamu, Isabela; Balabac Island in Palawan; and Lal-lo Airport in Cagayan, said Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh in April 2023, one year before the Philippines hosted American intermediate range nuclear-capable missile sites and before the U.S. Armed Forces ‘silent’ activity became so frenzied at Subic and Clark bases.
The locations already in the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement are Cesar Basa Air Base in Pampanga, Fort Magsaysay Military Reservation, Lumbia Air Base, Antonio Bautista Air Base and Mactan Benito Ebuen Air Base.
“In addition to the five existing sites, these new locations will strengthen the interoperability of the United States and Philippine armed forces and allow us to respond more seamlessly together to address a range of shared challenges in the Indo-Pacific region, including natural and humanitarian disasters,” Ms. Singh said in April 2023 when Filipinos first became aware of this massive expansion and military occupation of the Philippines by the USA.
Intermediate range nuclear missiles like the Tomahawk fall into a certain controverted category since WWII and the first use of nuclear weapons by America to destroy Hiroshima and Nagasaki, cities of Japan.
On 2 August 2019, the United States formally exited the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This decision came after President Donald Trump’s statement in October 2018, accusing the Russian Federation of violating the treaty by developing and deploying the Novator 9M729 (SSC-8) cruise missile.
The Trump administration further contended that the treaty hindered the U.S. from addressing China’s expanding missile capabilities, noting that China was not a signatory to the treaty. In reaction to the U.S. withdrawal, Russia suspended its own participation, resulting in the treaty’s termination and the dissolution of its regulatory framework governing intermediate-range nuclear forces between the two nations.
USA mid-range-missile system
Biden-Marcos ‘developments‘ also resulted in America installing Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces in the Philippines under another name.
The Typhon launch missile system for the Standard and Tomahawk land atack missiles, also known as the Mid-Range Capability (MRC), is a land-based, ground-launched system developed by the U.S. Army as a derivation of the U.S. Navy Tomahawk attack missile system and the Standard missile systems.
As such it is a conversion from a U.S. naval missile system to a land-based Army system, Typhoon is capable of firing the Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) and the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile. The SM-6 has a range of over 240 kilometers, while the nuclear-warhead-capable Tomahawk missiles can reach up to 2,500 kilometers, well into mainland China and its island of Taiwan.
As for nuclear capabilities, the Typhon system is designed to carry and launch the SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles which in peace time typically are equipped with conventional warheads. However, the Tomahawk missile has nuclear payload variants. Article II Section 8 of the Philippine Constitution explicitly forbids nuclear weapons in the Philippines.
Deploying the Typhon missile system in Europe in 2017 would have violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
The INF Treaty, signed in 1987 by the United States and the Soviet Union, prohibited both countries from possessing, producing, or flight-testing ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers.
The Typhon system, capable of launching missiles like the Tomahawk, falls within this range category.
The treaty was in effect until August 2019, when the United States formally withdrew, citing Russian violations as a primary reason. Hence deploying the Typhon system in Europe during the treaty’s validity would have been a breach of the INF agreement.
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty was an Arms Control agreement in a period of detente, now out the window, signed by the United States and the Soviet Union on 8 December 1987. It required the elimination of both nations’ nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers which included the Tomahawk missile.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev brought the treaty into effect on 1 June 1988, which resulted in the destruction of 2,692 missiles by May 1991. The treaty excluded air- or sea-launched missiles and incorporated provisions for on-site verification inspections across a decade to ensure adherence.
“What it does collectively, it provides us the opportunity to understand how to employ that capability, the environmental challenges here are very unique to any other place in the region,” U.S. Maj. Gen. Marcus Evans, commanding general of the Hawaii-based 25th Infantry Division, said when asked by the Associated Press how the missile system has helped participants in joint combat training in the Philippines.
“Last year, we also deployed long-range fires capabilities with Himars and we were able to move those around with fixed-wing aircraft around the archipelago environment,” Evans told The Associated Press (AP) in an interview in Manila, referring to the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, the truck-mounted launchers, which fire GPS-guided missiles capable of hitting distant targets in China.
“Those are just incredibly important operations because you get to work in the environment, but most importantly, you’re working alongside our partners here in the Philippines to understand how those will be integrated into their operations,” Evans said without elaborating on what enemies would be targeted but obviously referring to China as the USA makes ready for war against China in the Philippines.
The U.S. will keep the Typhoon missile system in the northern Philippines indefinitely to boost deterrence despite China’s expressions of alarm.
Feminine-Perspective:
Surviving future wars is not likely but to choose between being families that survive and families that don’t survive depends on what families do now.
Nuclear war is brewing and the United States will use the Philippines as a launching pad for weapons guidance and even for nuclear attacks on North Korea and China. Russia and Iran are also likely to become involved. With America loading nuclear-capable intermediate range missiles as weapons against China into the Philippines and into Japan as well as South Korea and other parts of Asia it is clear America is making a last-ditch attempt to save its failing control over the world by seizing control over China’s military-industrial and electronics giant Taiwan island. Genocide Joe Biden has said America will go to war over Taiwan. They want it taken from China.
America would not be manipulating Manila and taking over Philippines military bases if war was not expected. The Philippines is a deep pit of human rights abuses nobody in the USA wants to be associated with. “Americans are not our buddies, but they control the Marcos illegitimately,” says Sharon Santiago, South Asia Director for RINJ Women, the global women’s rights and safety NGO. “War is near,” she added.
In the current climate with the Nuclear Scientists on 23 January 2023 setting the doomsday clock at 90 seconds and the massive spread of nuclear weapons in Europe and Asia, we need to pay attention.
“A moment of historic danger: It is still 90 seconds to midnight” say the Atomic Scientists.
“Ominous trends continue to point the world toward global catastrophe. The war in Ukraine and the widespread and growing reliance on nuclear weapons increase the risk of nuclear escalation. China, Russia, and the United States are all spending huge sums to expand or modernize their nuclear arsenals, adding to the ever-present danger of nuclear war through mistake or miscalculation.
“In 2023, Earth experienced its hottest year on record, and massive floods, wildfires, and other climate-related disasters affected millions of people around the world. Meanwhile, rapid and worrisome developments in the life sciences and other disruptive technologies accelerated, while governments made only feeble efforts to control them.” Current Time – 2024 – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Exclusive: US keeps missile system in Philippines as China tensions rise | Reuters
“China has demanded its removal, and Russia has joined in condemning the first deployment of the system to the Indo-Pacific, accusing Washington of fueling an arms race.” China says US missile deployment in Philippines undermines peace | The Standard (Hong Kong)
Watch instructional video for initial survivors of missile attacks.