Philippines eyes expansion of Squad group to India, South Korea

Unfortunately I think neither one can be counted on to counter China.

All countries need to be given a chance to be counted on based on their efforts and motivation. Clearly this includes countries that border China like PI etc.

Here comes the usual greed of US industrial military complex, to fabricate stories of random fishermen being attacked by alleged China vessels, to justify more orders for American weapons and destabilize the region. How many times we have seen this movie, and how much warmongering is Washington going to promote?

India has already sold it's supersonic cruise missiles to Philippines.

Whatever TINC thinks is irrelevant, because India and China have been enemies for longer than he has been a keyboard warrior.

India, yes. South Korea, sadly no.

In theory, South Korea should be a great partner but its foreign policy (and particularly its Japan policy) swings wildly depending on the party of government.

If Lee Jae-myung ends up in charge (if he manages to stay out of jail), South Korea will be untrustworthy for the duration of his tenure, just like it was when Moon was president. North Korea and China, however, will be rubbing their hands.

"Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said the Philippines' actions in the South China Sea were not independent but part of a "screenplay written by external forces," to smear China."

No Wang. It's nothing more than a response to the screenplay written and followed through by China.

Let’s not forget the astounding profits of the US military industrial complex, whose main interest is to inflate the rhetoric against China, to preserve their huge interests in Wall Street, no matter how many hundreds of thousands innocent people are dying in the conflicts America is responsible for. 

The anti-Beijing hysteria is clearly being led by the United States which is not concerned that China will attack other countries, but is worried that its world hegemony is being challenged