Posted on 09/16/2016 7:38:12 AM PDT by Trump20162020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Philippines is firmly committed to its alliance with the United States but will not be lectured on human rights and treated like a "little brown brother," the country's Foreign Minister Perfecto Yasay said on Thursday.
Yasay rejected criticism of Duterte's war on drugs, in which thousands have been killed, saying that Philippines would never condone illegal killings, and said relations with Washington should be based on mutual respect.
"I am asking our American friends, American leaders, to look at our aspirations," he said. "We cannot forever be the little brown brothers of America. ... We have to develop, we have to grow and become the big brother of our own people.
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Yes, he might be in the process of making peace with Beijing.
Note, its way under the radar but so is Vietnam, which has been even more belligerent vs Beijing. Vietnam has recently been in unofficial but high level bilateral talks with China.
Stuff is moving over there and its not in the direction of the US.
There, they just shoot the drug folks themselves—and be done.
Here, we just let them shoot each other—AND anybody else who happens to be in range.
“Little Brown Brothers” was the term used by the Progressives over here to describe the folks we were supposedly saving during the Philippine “Insurrection”. The soldiers didn’t call them that though. The word “gook”, which was commonly used during the Vietnam war, actually originated in this war.
“gook” is from Korea.
Back in the 1900’s it was “nigger”, “ladrone”, “goo-goo” and “injun” (because the long standing Spanish official term for the natives was “indios” - the Philippines being the Spanish East Indies officially. The term “Filipino” referred to white Spaniards born in the country.
What happened to “Huk” ?
As far as I know “little brown brother” was coined by William Howard Taft, and not used by progressives. The progressives were against keeping the Philippines.
Ended with the Huks. That was a specific communist rebel group.
Hukbong Bayan laban sa Hapon originally, later just Hukbong Bayan. Or roughly translates to “Peoples Army”.
Teddy Roosevelt was against keeping the Phillipines? The Nation magazine was against keeping the Phillipines?
It was the Liberals who opposed the Spanish American War and the colonization of the Philippines.
WWII and the guerilla wars turned the country into the Wild Wild East and it persisted for decades, a major long term cost of WWII.
I grew up there at that time. Your scary place was my hood. Manila in the 1960s was a fairly gracious place overall actually, especially for Americans, we knew many long term residents, families of expat executives like your dad.
Vietnamese hatred of Chinese goes back more than two thousand years; half of that time Vietnam was under Chinese occupation.
When the ChiComs took over in 1949, Mao Tse-tung looked at the Viet Minh guerilla war against the French as a fellow socialist struggle and offered Ho Chi Minh unlimited weapons and support. His lieutenants recommended he accept.
Uncle Ho was furious. “Are you mad!? I would rather smell French s*** for the next ten years than smell Chinese s*** for the next thousand years!!”
Much later in 1979 Communist Vietnam overthrew the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and then repelled a Chinese attempt to intervene. It was called “dirty commies fighting rotten commies fighting evil commies”.
If Vietnam is seeking better relations with China, it’s got to be for economic reasons. Money trumps hatred.
Or...Vietnam is a coastal nation with a very long coastline to defend.
Security reasons and economic reasons. If China controls the South China sea it controls Vietnams foreign trade.
No invasion needed.
Believe Mark Twain used the term “little brown brothers” in this controversial rant against the Spanish American war. But I’m too lazy to locate it in the text.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~DRBR/sitting.html
I tried to discuss it with a black legal secretary once and she said it sounded raciss.
That was Roosevelt.
But even he almost immediately questioned whether he should let the place go. Taft was a different story, but he was one man. US policy was consistently muddled.
Just checked to see if my memory deceived me - The Nation magazine under its editor Villard was into taking the place, but very quickly changed its line to the opposite and Villard joined Mark Twain in his anti imperialist league.
I love it when other leaders talk smack to Obongodinga.
Here’s an idea, little non-brother of ours: scrap your mutual defense treaty with the USA and defend yourselves. Oh, and you may want to start studying the Koran and/or learning Chinese.
In the last thirty years or so, in the Philippines, it has become quite popular to learn Chinese. A few of the high end private schools are Chinese-immersion.
So they are part-way there.
And for that matter, as usual in Asia, the domestic economy is dominated by Chinese tycoons. Who themselves, formerly very anti-PRC, are coming around ti being PRC sympathisers. The strong horse, of course.
The Muslims are an age-old annoyance, but its just that. Yet another natural problem, like typhoons, earthquakes and volcanos. All cause damage but they live with them and always have.
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