Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
The demographics crisis has come for the Philippines! It used to be an exception. Their birthrate has fallen fast–now below replacement rate!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRLPNnjqGSE
Japan and the Philippines are increasing their military cooperation to counter an aggressive China.
China has repeatedly used their military to steal maritime territory, and is having the greatest ever peacetime increase in military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkBLIBEsHE0
Japan is becoming its own hub in a hub and spoke model of quasi-alliances in the Asia-Pacific. It’s cooperating with many countries and selling needed weapons. Japan is the most trusted major power among ASEAN countries. Beating the EU, US, China, and India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYRGTpagxus
Japan is preparing for war by rearming, developing technology, and unofficially allying with countries like Taiwan, the Philippines, and India.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXkma-zgKk
The Philippines is having trouble returning to pre-Covid levels of tourism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr2vOfmfb1c
The Phillipines beat out India on out-sourced phone customer service jobs because Filipinos could speak English with an accent more understandable to Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXm5yZct-ts
China uses military forces to kill the Philippines and other neighbors by a thousand cuts, slowly encroaching on national waters. China is aggressively using military forces to take territory from its neighbors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TszXa5GsIw
The Philippines in the Asia Dojo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–22BZx683Q
“China has published baselines for a contested shoal in the South China Sea it had seized from the Philippines, a move that’s likely to increase tensions over overlapping territorial claims.
The Foreign Ministry on Sunday posted online geographic coordinates for the baselines around Scarborough Shoal. A nation’s territorial waters and exclusive economic zone are typically defined as the distance from the baselines.
Both China and the Philippines claim Scarborough Shoal and other outcroppings in the South China Sea. China seized the shoal, which lies west of the main Philippine island of Luzon, in 2012 and has since restricted access to Filipino fishermen there. A 2016 ruling by an international arbitration court found that most Chinese claims in the South China Sea were invalid but Beijing refuses to abide by it.
Ships from China and the Philippines have collided several times as part of increased confrontations, and the Chinese coast guard has blasted Philippine vessels with water cannons.
China’s move came two days after Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. signed two laws demarcating the government’s claims in the disputed waters.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-delimits-contested-south-china-105051495.html
What will Asian countries do if the U.S. leaves?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2Hj31J_Fv0