I think it is fine that the Philippines is partnering with another Asian nation who has security concerns with the CCP run China.
They’ll need all the help they can get. Their air force is so antiquated their pilots are using the old bras of Imelda Marcos for skycaps.
Everyone around Red China is probably realizing the US won’t lift a finger to help them; it is very clear we are allied with Red China. If they were really enemies, would our shelves be stocked with their cheap junk? Would we be training their future commissars?
Any reported conflict between the US and Red China, or even Russia for that matter, are pure theater for us little people. Our elites envy the control of the ChiCom elites; the warning occurred when they were no longer “Red China”.