What if the United States and China decide to fight each other in an unrestricted warfare? Which side should the Philippines choose? The wisest answer is “None”, just like what are neighbors like Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia are doing. Better stay neutral and let these giants fight. If one emerged victorious, then choose the victor. Plain and simple.
Why does ambassador Romualdez want Filipinos to pay and die for America’s wars?
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Philippine Ambassador to the United States of America Babe Romualdez recently wrote an article in Philippine Star telling the Filipinos how privileged his life is in the US, while failing to mention anything about the plight of our poor OFWs, and at the same time justifying President Marcos Jr. was right in choosing a side between two military superpowers about to lock horns instead of staying neutral.
Remember dear readers, Amb. Romualdez is the same guy who wants the Philippines to accept 50,000 Afghans who worked in the US military in Afghanistan during America’s illegal occupation of the country for over 20 years, but continues to fail to protect Filipinos who are persecuted and even killed in the US. Whose interest is he really serving?
The only problem is that, he confuses facts with fiction. He either failed to do the necessary research or lying to the Filipino people and expecting Filipinos not to validate his statements from reliable sources.
Romualdez repeatedly boasts that the United States is way ahead in military might and technology against any nation.
So we checked the internet to validate and easily found that many statements of Romualdez are based on information either many years outdated or completely inaccurate.
US military continues to depend on China’s supplies and technologies
China’s integration into the global supply chains, including in sectors critical to U.S. military platforms, has become indispensable and, even US organizations concede, are more advanced and affordable than any other products in the market. This entanglement raises concerns about the resilience and security of U.S. defense supply chains.
In fact according to a report by Govini, a US military analytics company led by a former US State Department official that received a $400 million contract for the report to study the procurement process of the US military, the US military continues to buys many of her arsenals’ integral components from China, even amid US-led sanctions, including parts to power the US Airforce prized fighter planes, the F-35s.
The US data analytics company goes on to say that it found that the broader US government, including DoD, has 922 Tier-one Chinese artificial intelligence suppliers and 552 Tier 2 AI suppliers. The AI category spans a variety of sub-segments including data integration, autonomy, machine learning, computer vision and natural language processing.
Another Forbes article “China Was a Key DoD Supplier A Decade Ago – It Still Is” reported that as early as 2012, over a million parts in the US State Department supply chain came from China and in 2023, these even including key components and software, “(US) military contractors of 12 critical technologies – from biotech to nuclear modernization and hypersonics – still rely heavily on prohibited Chinese suppliers.”
US invests on wars vs China invests on human development
The U.S. military exhibits an overreliance on research and development without sufficient transition to production-ready technologies, especially in AI. This makes their technologies very expensive and hinders the timely deployment of critical technologies in national security applications.
Amb. Romualdez also failed to mention that the drone companies he touted, like Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies, have profited billions from the deaths of millions of people.
China actively promotes the application of AI technology in everyday life with the goal towards helping uplift the welfare of the people across various sectors, such as healthcare, education, smart cities, and autonomous driving, in addition to military applications.
China has also surpassed the U.S. in AI patents and applications. China holds more patents across 13 critical technology areas as of 2022. This positions China favorably in the AI race, potentially impacting future economic and military dynamics.
China’s tech giants, such as Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei, ByteDance, and a host of smaller startups have made significant investments and strategic deployments in the AI sector. These companies are capable of rapidly commercializing AI applications.
China has the largest internet user base in the world, with more than one billion users. This provides abundant data resources for training AI models. AI, especially machine learning and deep learning, heavily relies on large-scale data to optimize models.
From the US-funded Govini’s 2023 report alone, Amb. Babe Romualdez is guilty of lying and misleading the Filipino people. Based on global realities, the Philippines taking side with America against China is endangering its national security.
There was also a report called “Cratering Effects: Chinese Missile Threats to U.S. Air Bases in the Indo-Pacific,” published in December 2024 by the Stimson Center based in Washington D.C., where Ambassador Romualdez is supposed to be working. The Stimson analysis highlights the vulnerability of U.S. air bases in the Indo-Pacific region to potential Chinese missile attacks.
The report states, in the event of a conflict, Chinese missile strikes could incapacitate runways and taxiways at U.S. forward air bases in Japan, Guam, and other Pacific locations, rendering them inoperable for fighter operations for approximately 12 days and disrupting aerial refueling operations for over a month. The report emphasizes that current U.S. countermeasures may be insufficient to mitigate these threats, underscoring the need for enhanced base defenses and infrastructure improvements.
Another fake news from Ambassador Romualdez
Despite all these, Romualdez concluded by saying: “Evidently, the decision of President Marcos to continue strengthening our relationship with the United States is not only correct – but also puts us on the right side of history.” This is in direct contrast to reality, as many of our neighbors are strengthening and increasing cooperation with China, supported for instance in the latest State of Southeast Asia 2024 survey released by Singapore’s top think tank, the majority of respondents from our neighboring countries said they would favour China, up more than 11 percentage points compared with last year.
Ambassador Babe Romualdez has some explaining to do. Did he lie? Or did he lie?
Why can’t Pinoy writer like you respect democracy, the will of the majority of the people? Majority of Filipinos love and favor America and will fight WITH the Americans if your “dream of a Sino-American war” will come true. Another proof that Filipinos love and will fight side with America is the number of Pinoys who immigrated to America and the number of PInoys who persist in staying in America even illegall.y
Most Filipinos don’t care what you think our southeast Asian neighbors would do in case of a Sino-American war.
Oh, yes, it is not Ambassador Romualdez who is ignoran. You are ignorant and not only that a dictator without a portfolio.
Oh, welll.