The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) bristled at a recent US congressional proposal asking Taiwan to help fund the improvement of Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites in the country.
The CPP “strongly denounced…the brazen affront on Philippine national sovereignty,” as the US is “selling” territory that only belongs to the Filipino people.
The revolutionary group said the proposal is an added insult to freedom-loving Filipinos, noting that the US military has already been given extra-territorial rights in the Philippines under EDCA.
“[N]ow they want to extend those rights by seeking to sell these rights to Taiwan,” the CPP fumed.
In its 2025 report to the US Congress released last week, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission recommend that US ask Taiwan to help fund “infrastructure improvements” of US military facilities in the Philippines.
The proposal aims to boost American military forces in the Philippines in a bid to enhance Washington’s capabilities against Chinese threats in the region.
The CPP said the plan further exposes the true intent behind the establishment of US military facilities in the Philippines, which is to maintain US hegemony in the region cloaked as defense of Taiwan and the Philippines.
“This plan furthers US plans to militarize the region and renders the Philippines a pawn in US plans to provoke an armed conflict with China and a staging ground for US military aggression,” the CPP said.
The group said the Filipino people must vigorously oppose the scheme and hold the Ferdinand Marcos Jr. government accountable for gross violations of Philippine sovereignty.
“They must denounce the puppet Marcos regime for aligning with US imperialist interests and allowing it to expand the number of its military bases and secret locations, maintain a permanent presence of troops, deploy strategic weapons, and conduct non-stop war exercises, all in violation of Philippine national sovereignty,” it said in a statement.
Agreement by Manila to such a plan encourages further animosity and military conflicts in the region, the CPP added.
“The Filipino people must demand the removal of all US military bases, call for upholding an independent foreign policy, and pursuing peace and dialogue to resolve conflicts in the region,” it concluded. # (Raymund B.Villanueva)
