Azaad
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That ungli as you put it is from the playbook of Mao - the great helmsman who pioneered the madman theory when he took on the might of the existing super powers of the day by daring them to unleash their WMD, something which unnerved the then leadership of Truman & Brezhnev respectively who chose to ignore him pursuing conventional warfare.4 thousand years of history mean fuck all when they can ungli 15 countries at once and get away with it.
Also Phillipines didn't """"accept"""" any US offer, the US parachuted in Marcos Jr and regime changed Duterte away via election, it has been a (((USAllySlave))) since forever, and only Duterte was trying monkey balancing.
Similar to the Padosi Mulq and it's kaali-daal applying Kaptaan-saab being friendly with Russia.
He got away with it with a lot of pariah nations like DPRK, Paxtan & Iran now invoking the same philosophy. Now if he could get away with tangling with the super powers of the day you think he'd care a damn about confronting lesser powers in his neighborhood. He didn't & managed to get his way partially or completely with them.
His successors in the CCP think this is a golden strategy to emulate thanks to the enormous success it got them the first time around when they were a distinctly second or even a third rate power yet managed to get their way by punching way above their weight which is why we are here.
As far as Philippines's disenchantment with China is concerned it goes back to the same tactics China's now employing with lesser intensity resulting in the Chinese seizing the Scarborough shoals prompting then President Aquino's to approach UNCLOS getting a ruling in Philippines's favor against China which the latter refused to respect.
He demitted office on completion of his term to Duterte who tried mollycoddlling China. You know the rest.
P. S - I don't lay much store in your accusations of the US rigging the elections in Marcos's favor. Duterte completed his term. Marcos stood for the elections & won. Had there been credibility to these allegations you're levelling there'd be a storm in the Philippines. There's none & frankly this is the first time I'm hearing of it.