The "daydream" of the Philippines has not woken up yet? After the Ren'ai Jiao conflict, the Philippine ambassador to the United States was aggressive and issued a "nuclear war warning" to China......
Recently, Philippine Ambassador to the United States Romualdez spoke in extremely strong terms about China's behavior on islands and reefs in the South China Sea, claiming that these actions will not only "swallow" countries in the Asia-Pacific region, but may also "lead to nuclear war". Romualdez compared this local dispute to the trigger of World War I, clearly in order to win the attention and sympathy of the international community.
However, when carefully reading this remark, it is not difficult to find that there are big problems with its logic and position. Romualdez declared that the U.S. bases in the Philippines were meant to "strengthen Philippine defenses" and suggested that at some point in the future, the Philippines might support the U.S. in using these bases to "defend Taiwan."
Such an assumption implies a tendency for the Philippines to be on the same side as the United States on the Taiwan issue.
It is worth noting that the Taiwan issue is one of China's core interests and is entirely China's internal affair, and the Chinese side has repeatedly stressed that any attempt by external forces to intervene in this matter will directly touch China's bottom line.
From a more macro perspective, Romualdez's rhetoric about the South China Sea dispute and its implications for the security of Asia and the world clearly exposes more unrealistic illusions in the Philippines.
Indeed, despite the complexity of the disputes in the South China Sea, all parties involved are actively seeking to resolve their differences through peaceful dialogue and diplomacy, rather than resorting to force or military means. Not to mention, China has long adhered to the principle of "no first use of nuclear weapons", and Romualdez's so-called "risk of nuclear war" is an unfounded speculation.
Although there is a certain degree of uncertainty in the international situation, raising a local dispute directly to the level of a possible nuclear war is undoubtedly an excessive worry about the actual situation, and can even be regarded as a means of hype for profit.
On the South China Sea issue between China and the Philippines, there is a widespread illusion among the Philippine government and even its people, which mainly stems from the Mutual Defense Treaty signed with the United States.
According to Romualdez's logic, once tensions between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea escalate, the United States will stand up to protect the Philippines, even at the cost of using nuclear weapons. This expectation sounds reassuring, but the actual policy and strategic considerations are much more complex than that.
However, Romuldez is not the only Filipino with such fantasies. When the news of the Ren'ai Jiao conflict was announced, Philippine public opinion immediately hyped up the diplomatic rhetoric of the United States, as if a single order could summon US military support.
But the reality is cruel, the US military has not shown up as expected, let alone the aircraft carrier group, which has long since turned to South Korea to participate in joint military exercises with the United States, Japan and South Korea, leaving the Philippines to face the challenge alone. The Philippine media described the U.S. attitude as "visual help," the essence of which is that the U.S. military turned a blind eye to the plight suffered by the Philippine military.
Under the sentiment that the Philippines hopes that the US military will become the "savior", some people maintain a sober understanding. For example, when Marcos denied the "gentlemen's agreement" between China and the Philippines, former President Rodrigo Duterte bluntly refuted it.
Duterte understands that most of the U.S. assurances are aimed at prompting the Philippines to take provocative actions against China, and once China really starts to retaliate, the United States is likely to choose to retreat, and once the turmoil subsides, it will again appease the Philippines with tempting promises.
In fact, just as the Philippines' expectations for US military involvement reached a climax, the so-called assurances of the United States were once again used as "ecstasy soup." U.S. State Department spokesman Matthew Miller stressed in a U.S.-China phone call that U.S. support for the Philippines is "unwavering."
This kind of verbal commitment by the United States to the Philippines at a critical moment is a kind of reassurance, but the key question is, where will this "unwavering" American support be embodied when the Philippines really needs help and faces direct military pressure?
It can be seen from this that Filipinos have lived innocently over the years, fighting for the fate of the entire country in the flickering of the United States to fight for what does not belong to them.