The BRI is a trade offensive move by China

We should acknowledge and accept the fact that China created the BRI for her own advantage, use, and purpose, in intent to defeat as well as dominate foreign countries in trade and economy that gives them the edge of becoming the wealthiest in the world which is an unfolding reality in the process.

With that in mind, there are no other countermeasures but to do to protect our country, sovereignty economically and politically against this infiltration and pressures of defeating our country via trade and financial obligations, but rather defend our national interest by this onslaught of trade, predatory loans and dominance by China.

The strategy of loans and infrastructures in wasteful in spendings will possibly amount into our difficulty of paying back, and default afterwards as expectations of this lender is what our leaders must put into serious study this strategy of China but rather of go back and built our own manufacturing strengths as an answer to this kind of relations China offers which must be dealt with by us in contrast.

MANUFACTURING

We need to make alternative sources to greatly increase our manufacturing that would be the ground to fight back our international trade deficiencies. Basically, we must make every product created in the country to be sold abroad to earn foreign currencies as a measure to combat trade deficits.

At the moment we have very low manufacturing capabilities and this is the difficulty that we have right now. Data shows that we import so many products to make meet our domestic consumption, that if we identify our cravings of foreign products that we don't produce locally, we can counter produce them locally and reduce importations of product lines we consumed that would affect the reduction of those consumptions that made us spend foreign currencies.

Manufacturing is only the mean that our country can be freed of political and international foreign pressures and influences. If we can be sustainable and not dependent offshore by finances and loans, there is no fear that we can grow as a nation respected and well recognized. At the moment, we don't manufacture cars viewed as the basic foundation of the modernized economy. Unless we engage in auto manufacturing, trucks, heavy types of equipment, shipbuilding, and more, there is no assurance that we can be self-reliant and sustainable as a nation.

We are very dependent on the importation of foreign cars, trucks, machinery that makes our country and economy run. That dependency will not bring us to a good future because it will make us remained n that situation as a beggar of other countries. we will keep constantly buying abroad, and their supply will be the bargaining point of their influence on us. Rice alone is a basic problem in our importation that creates fear for our food security.

How can be our country be secured if basically, we cannot be self-sustainable mainly for our food security? National security is the topmost problem in this country, and it is the issue that must be the concern of our government, our leaders, and Congress.

DOLLAR EARNING

Foreign currency earning must be the priority of our government, and economic policies should be based on this goal ordering every local product all for dollar earnings.  From agricultural products into high technology goods, our government should implement programs to double down on exports and strictly implement this policy for the sake of foreign reserve accumulation.

CODING AND TRUCK BAN IS ANTI-ECONOMY

It may be regarded as a deception that truck ban and the color coding schemes in our transport system are used to solve congestion and mitigate traffic problems in the metropolis can be deeply seen as a  hoax against needs and realities, and a misstep factor to make our goals for the economy of this nation. It can be viewed as a policy not in entirety serves the purpose of progress and growth aspired, but direction wrongly applied.

Traffic problems may not be blamed in an increased population of cars and trucks but, the low and stagnated growth, improvement of our road network infrastructures and  facilities that the government in many years and decades failed on its obligations in perceiving the future increment and development of commerce, industries of the country that said growth should have been equated by these changes of upward transport sector an obligation of the state to infuse infrastructures in the course.

The constriction, limitation of travels, goods deliveries to consummate deals, transactions, that makes the speed of the economy impeded, blocked by this ant-economy, anti-poor law of ruck bans and color codings that should be re-addressed and put forth favor to commerce, trade, and industries as lead policies of the government, not to incur loss to opportunity of growth. 

Blaming is not a good spirit to put on the table today, but rather, to see the situation as a matter to make of the problem do not create another problem, but get out of the situation and prioritized liberalized growth the country.   The codings and truck bans placed upon people and businesses make the growth of this country slowed down as the truth, and impossibly difficult situation to catch up with the record growth of GDPs of our co-ASEAN countries now exploding away from us is the point that must be on the discussion that would result to a negative assessment of truck bans and codings.

While the speed of commerce is reliant on the speed of production of factories, services, and manufacturing, these growths are only accomplished by an efficient and no-time loss transport sector at any time, that coding and truck bans impede said completion of trade and revenue of businesses and that also is affecting  the government in general.

The use of land vehicles is elemental for the economy and the government taking revenue from the people and commerce should have planned and spent a long time ago infrastructures that will absorb the impact of the growth of the private sector and enjoy the benefits of these liberalized growths unrestrained.

The government failed to construct the needed road networks and remained dull and stagnated for a hundred years of those original infrastructures build and in concept by the Americans serving our current road thoroughfares, that our Architectural and Engineering studies reveal that the city plans and programs created by the Americans for our cities remained unchallenged. The loss of long term goals, appreciation of studies, technologies, and goals for GDP  were reasons why we have not prospered due to these neglect and unimplemented goals that remained in the drawing boards.

It is killing most the small businesses and budding entrepreneurs struggling hard to survive and meet business obligations being hampered by such bans and codings threatening slowdowns of the economy. If there are only freedom and liberalized economic and commercial programs in the country, it would be fantastic for the economy to growth rapidly.

Even big companies are even affected by vehicular bans and codings due to the same delays it costs generally for these big business leaders to facilitate in a period, cycle of their turnarounds of goods furnished, delivered, and sold.

If the government is serious about our economic growth and willing to put forward the interest of the people who conduct transactions daily, it would be significant that the government may recall truck bands and codings all over and create ways to make road networks efficient aside from constructions being planned at the moment.

Codings and truck bans is a denial for people to speed the economic lives of its taxpayers and a denial for the government to incur positive results of its revenue collections made by the accelerated growths the private sectors can make in a day, a week, a month or a year.

We need to advocate for an outright cancellation of Truck bans and color codings in the country as it delays, impedes economic growth. Said program also is anti-poor and anti-small businesses that make the bulk of our economy, that contrary to this policy, tey should be assisted and promoted to let the country incur more growing businesses that will work towards global, more exports, conquer international markets, and mainly f the greater revenue of the government.  

Aside from the road networks now in the drawing boards to solve traffic and road congestion, the experts can still devise at the current to make existing road efficient for routes that would reduce congestion anywhere while said future road infrastructures dreamed once and finally realized.

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This opinion is a partial discussion on the subject, though we have no supported links, references of said editorial, the common knowledge available over information technology is satisfactory. There may be more studies involved regarding this subject, but the general perception of color codings and Truck bans is just the retarding effect to the economy because said measures involve the element of time, distance, and volumes. In short, productivity is the underlying matter where other countries had already leaped of their GDP numbers while ours remained below of them.

Like for example, Indonesia which is regarded to be our co-ASEAN neation member has already reachedtrillion dollar economy, that in comparison we have only 300 billion USD GDP economy today.

MADE IN THE PHILIPPINES 2025

It is all about business, trade, deficits, loans and debt traps that imperialism can thrive in this sphere of globalism that China is portraying as a better alternative of conquering the world without guns but gain more money.

As the world does not know, China is employing a strategy of global trade to become a superpower and replace the position of the United States as the dominant power in the world.

BRI is masking for openness in trade by bringing in infrastructure for the world and use it as a platform to conduct further commerce with its unprepared rivals.

Many fear the Made in China 2025 for it will be the turning point where she can be of advanced in technology for manufacturing.

Of course, upon riping of technology for China, there will be better, more efficient, productive and speed production for China and may defeat squarely any nation in the conduct of trade.

Once deficits and more deficits are incurred by a country against China, coupled by loans and default payments, Chinas will harvest more that country into its submission and acquire natural resources it may need for her consumption leaving those nations bleed.

It is happening now, China has practically obliterated Djibouti, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Pakistan, and others into debt traps that might suddenly demand loans payments of its sovereignty and natural resources.

This is a danger for the Philippines who is entertaining China's offers of infrastructures and loans which seemingly will come as a case of other countries now suffering bad loans.

Made in the Philippines is just a matter of likeness that our leaders and elected ones should set goals for industrializing the country and setting the manufacturing sector advanced today.

We need to look that our GDP is only about 300 billion UDS against China's  12.24 trillion USD. We should attain a trillion dollar economy so as to be able to defend ourself=ves with the bullies of China in the South China Sea and stop the deficits of the country.

Manufacturing is the hope of this country to defend us in deficits and BOPs of the country that our leaders should address this situation.

The 300 billion USD GDP pales in comparison with China's 12 trillion, and we are just sitting idly not doing anything about our trade, exports, and investments. 

Our local capitals are even at risk by the mounting regulations on businesses that put friction to the growth and acceleration of the economy.

We even lose the view of encouraging micro businesses and self-employment of our people in the midst of unemployment for the sake of securing the economy and bracing its condition .

We should have this ambition of made in the Philippines just like China is doing today. We should prepare hard to engage highly in manufacturing, factories, trade, and eXports that will drive exponentially our economy.

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ECONOMIC SECURITY IS NATIONAL SECURITY

Economic Security is National Security and this must be the thrust of the government to lead the country and secure the future of a generation of Filipinos.

The situation of having economic security is to incur less dependence of the country from foreign sources of finances that is risky to the sovereignty of the country. 

That there is an alternative way to create that independence mostly in the case that with China where we are confronted with the problem in the West Philippine sea versus the nine-dash line that is now the problem.

The continuing presence and occupation of China should be legally stopped with the assistance of the international community upon our winning in the Hague Tribunal ruling.

We can bring the matter to other and  new levels and secure support and assistance from everyone and help us make Beijing avow to that international accord.

After the Hague ruling, our government has stopped asserting more the potential of the decision for our own advantage, yet our new government sidelined the ruling and held a different and opposite stance with China.

We have not tested the efficiency and the force of the said ruling, but instead, we kept it behind and lure China more in the opposite manner.

Economic Secuiriy is national Security in partcular the West Philippine Sea where China has been agressively owning chunks of the EEZa territory of the country. We can defend the territorial dispute of the country if we'll develop our economy and secure  economically to build our own military just what China did since it started opening their economy to the world.

Internally, we can do some actions that will pursue our national interests in the West Philippine Sea dispute that is by making our economy in the background and actively operate our capacity of manufacturing and defeat China in this way.

At the moment we should suspend some negative factors in our laws initiate some enactments and measures to support and favor investments, businesses, and manufacturing in the country.

We should be able to offer to foreign investors on what China and other countries can give, and do the same to foreign firms in order to make investments in our country., and we should make studies and resolutions just to keep that happen.

We should learn that without economic security there is no national security that is now happening in the South China Sea. We are practically hopeless for our defense because we have nothing o fight back economically against China.

With enough economic security we will be able to build our own military by the revenues and dollars we incur from that positive results and we can fight back China for our rights int he West Philippine Sea.

The Hague ruling for the Philippines is our very own ticket to demand our rights from any foreign power. Practicallythe new government  did nothing to venture on the potentioal of the ruling the next level of forums which the country can get international support. There are plenty of venues and means for us to rally and seek international assistance to make this ruling  be avowed by China. We cannot be a good force in the international community if we fail to pursue said decision and stay amenable to the baseless assertion of China.

To have economic Security is tho have robust and conclusive manufacturing in the country. Without that manufacturing at par with the size of China, there is no means that we can have the security we wanted.

But the manufacturing sector cannot come without the overnment's initiative and leadership for the private sector. Naturally at this stage, and at this generation, there is tremendous difficulty to make startups for the manufacturing sector in automotive, cars and trucks manufacturing and all other stuffs that require high technology products to produce tht only foreign comapnies can provide that transfer of technology.

Knowing these problems, there are numerous  and radical changes for the government to pt up for the needed infrasturcture of manufacturing, that their environemnt and ecosystems should be guaranteed survival byth government.

At recent, we don't see any care or action by the government to pursue any of these objectives for economic security seen at the momutent, b u ominos are  all about political carrers and security of the elected.

DEFEATING CHINA

This is how we defeat China, not militarily but by trade with the help of many nations and avert the third world war.

THE US MARKET

The US is the biggest market of China's goods, and by knowing that, the US can easily be the factor to kill China's economy by shutting its door from Chinese products.

In a sample scenario, if the US is shunned by Chinese goods, there will be terrible loss and poverty of China who exports a little 500 billion USD to the US markets, and this can be done with absolute certainty.

To realize this, something must be done to outdo China's exports to tUnitedted States, or countries can replace China's position for that matter.

At this instance, the Philippines can be one of those countries that can replace China's exports to the US. By his thinking, there is a possibility that this scenario can happen for the country to replace China's position in exports.

This case must prepare the Philippines to become that producer of products to the United States if we are willing to take this option.

This replacement of China is a way to defeat them. It will take us to open our industries, investment areas in equal terms with what China offers,  or more possibly build unlimited manufacturing in the goals of fighting them by trade to the US. Is it impossible? iT IS NOT.

If we are that serious to defeat China, we can beat them in trade, and it is better that we should start our preparations at this early.

THE PHILIPPINE EXPORTS

This is just a simple feasibility on fighting China not by war but by trade. We are going to prepare the country to engulf all major industries all over the world and make the country the export capital.

We cannot be the world's factory and export capital if we are not going to prepare the foundations of people, government, policies, the liberalism of trade, labor, land, logistics, and much more the conditions of the country to receive investments, capitals, resources to march the country into a level of manufacturing and industrialization under the sponsorship of foreign investments economy.

THE SOUTH CHINA SEA

We can not fight in arms with China for our rights of or EEZ in the south China sea, but e can fight them thru the muscle of manufacturing and exports. Added also our legal power to send them to the international forums to avow by the accords they have signed and make them respect it.

COUNTRIES SHOULD BE SCARED OF THE BRI

Countries must be scared by the BELT ROAD INITIATIVE of China that even before its operation, many countries had already felt the destruction to its economies before the said project begins.

The over 70 countries membered to it shall be scared at this moment, as said trade openness being sung by China, the opposite is happening otherwise.

COUNTRIES COMPLAIN

So many countries had already discovered the hidden interests and agenda of China in BRI. Countries like Sri Lanka, Djibouti, Laos, Malaysia, Pakistan, Montenegro, Cambodia, and many others had felt the unfair treatment of trade and relations with China over the years since the inception of the BRI idea.

Debt Trap Diplomacy

It is very clear that China is engaged in a practice of debt trap diplomacy, targetting small economies that have no capability of paying back the loans with exorbitant rates and harsh terms and conditions that would eventually take equity upon default or failure payback.

The Philippines is already entering this debt trap of China under the leadership of the current president, and this is a matter of national concern and national security that must be addressed and studied by the government. The same that recently, offers of Chinese loans are saddled with expensive rates, with strings attached of natural resources as targets once loan defaults take place.

TRUTH OF THE BRI

Once BRI becomes fully operational, China is the biggest economy in the world, and its manufacturing and exports economy will easily kill smaller economies in is game of international trade, it is seemingly a fight of David and Goliath.

LIke the Philippines, we have not shored our manufacturing industries, and we are not an export economy, and by this condition, we are at a disadvantaged position just like everyone in the ASEAN region.

OUR MANUFACTURiNG

There is no means but to modernize, improve our manufacturing sector to combat the onslaught Chines goods flooding the country. We should abate the deficits of this country that is draining our USD reserves. We should always be mindful of trade deficits that are killing our economy.

US and JAPAN Partnership for global Military alliance

The situation given for Japan's recent improvement and modernization of its military is not it's own making, it is of its environment of political and security reasons posed before them.

With recent upgrading, acquisition of new F-35B aircraft from the US, and retrofitting its naval and other military equipment, machines, they deem necessary at the moment is regarded not of their own but by the circumstances around them.

The current position of their military condition may not be the same as before but by new standards, the world is posing upon them.

CHINA AS THREAT

China is a threat in the South China Sea and almost around the world today. The current build-up and modernization of China is a matter of concern not only for Japan but for the whole world.

China had started trouble in the South China Sea by constructing and occupying man-made islands and installing military forces there. They have broken their promise of no militarizing the seas, but of no avail that today they ad installed al hat is necessary for their military advancements.

CHINA IS AN ECONOMIC THREAT

China has major plans of conquering nations into their submissions economically. They are using trade, loans, infrastructures, cooperations, openness, win-win solutions, Belt Road Initiative,s amongst tools to conquer foreign economies and eventually political submissions can become the equity of these debt-laden nations.

With these tools of using trade as weapons, there is a high threat that China is posing for the world as Japan, the US, Australia, EU, and the rest are wary about these movements of China  to dominate all and become the world's superpower.

THE PHILIPPINES

OUr country should be aware of these things about the course of the future entailed by China. We are economically weak and the solution to it is to activate our trade, manufacturing into such a level that would create surplus for our economy.

Economic Security is National Security

We should be focused on driving the economy of the country into a level where there will be a generation of wealth, funds for the government and be able to spend them for our national security needs.

Let us liberalize capitalism and reduce regulations, cut taxes, and multiply or GDP. That way we can counter the threat ofChina to our economy and sovereignty.