The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) lashed out at a recent US congressional proposal urging Taiwan to help finance improvements to Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA) sites in the country.
The CPP said it “strongly denounced…the brazen affront on Philippine national sovereignty,” accusing Washington of “selling” territory that belongs only to the Filipino people.
The group stressed that the proposal is an added insult to Filipinos, noting that the US military has already been granted extra-territorial rights under EDCA.
“[N]ow they want to extend those rights by seeking to sell these rights to Taiwan,” the CPP declared.
The recommendation came in the 2025 report of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, which suggested that Washington ask Taipei to help fund “infrastructure improvements” of US military facilities in the Philippines.
The plan is intended to strengthen American forces in the country as part of efforts to counter Chinese threats in the region.
But the CPP argued that the proposal exposes the real purpose of US military presence in the Philippines: maintaining US dominance in Asia under the guise of defending 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 group said.
The CPP urged Filipinos to resist the scheme and hold the Marcos Jr. administration 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 stated.
The group warned that Manila’s agreement to such a plan would only fuel hostility and conflict in the region.
“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,” the CPP concluded. (ZIA LUNA)
