Self-fulfilling prophecy

“If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialism, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.” – Deng Xiaoping speech at the United Nations, April 10, 1974

AFTER four decades, the words of Deng Xiaoping is now almost a reality. But it seems small fries like the Philippines and US allies in Asia are the perceived easy targets. We all have to be vigilant and not to commit the same mistake just like what happened here before World War II when the Japanese came, disguised as lowly merchants, poor Japanese looking for work like our OFWs, drivers, gardeners, etc. When the war broke out, these Japanese re-grouped and were found out too late that most of them were officials and soldiers of the Japanese Imperial Army and their local counterpart was the “Lupong Tagapagpaganap.”

See the pattern of history of the creeping invasion of nations? What’s worrying many pundits is the possible repeat of history with a creepy scenario. Then the poor Chinese migrants from China mostly came from Amoy have reinvented themselves from being street vendors, small time junk buyers, retailers of junk foods, etc., few were members of Red China’s underworld––the Triad who metamorphosed through sheer hard work into what we now call the Taipans. We, Filipinos, didn’t mind that. But the latest strategic assessment is really quite scary. Due to national security issue, I cannot elaborate at the moment. My group of patriots just don’t want a repeat of what happened in Indonesia and Malaysia with the purging of Chinese there, and the attack of the angry Vietnamese against the Chinese in Vietnam due to the bullying of China.

The installation of China’s military structures at the South China Sea, the nine dash line, the Adiz plus President Xi Jin Ping’s “China dream” which is now becoming a nightmare due to the regrouping of his political enemies inside China, including former loyal allies of Xi whom he jailed due to suspicion of corruption plus the leak of Xi and his family’s own corruption exposed by Bloomberg made the plot thickens.

The world was alerted of a possible collapse from within despite the “praise releases” of a good economy in China. Even Google removed the invented Chinese names of shoals from the Internet map due to global protests. The floating scenario emanating from Beijing experts is that China is preparing for war “to fight an outside enemy to unite China.”

I’m calling the attention of our compatriots especially the progressive lefts who have been so quiet on the issue of China’s bullying. I hope that their sudden noise against China is not part of the ploy as some analysts thought. Please don’t agitate China, a possible justification of attack, another reverse arrow plan of invasion. In spite of China’s history of non-aggression, a former Beijing resident friend of mine reminded me that the situation in the past is different this time. China has a military inspired president and he could be worse than Mao Tse Tung he added.

I have written a lot on how China in the past infiltrated even our intelligence officers in the military like then Gen. Pedro de la Pena, our big business and anti-communist leaders. Thanks to the American “communist” William Pomeroy who worked for the US clandestine operations, they were all exposed and most of them jailed. (See my latest book ‘Dossiers’ and blog about it at ericksanjuan.blogspot.com)

Let us call the attention of our local Chinese here. Most of them could have averted the saber rattling between the Philippines and China if they were told by the government. We now want to hear your voices. As the Lord God said, “Are you with us or against us?” May God bless the Philippines!