Malacañang’s announcement that it has suspended the abrogation of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) only means that Duterte wants to continue using the renegotiations to wring more military aid from the United States to prop up his regime.

Duterte wants to use the US objective of stationing troops in the Philippines as leverage to demand more fighter planes, attack helicopters, bombs, cannons, artillery and bullets to prop up his tyrannical and terrorist regime.

In doing so, Duterte is putting a price tag on the country’s sovereignty and right against foreign military intervention. This is his “pera pera lang iyan” foreign policy.

The CPP welcomes the filing of the Philippine Human Rights Act by US Rep. Susan Wild that seeks to suspend US military aid to the Duterte government in the face of rampant cases of human rights abuses.

The CPP reiterates the patriotic demand of the Filipino people to abrogate all unequal military treaties with the US, including the Mutual Defense Treaty of 1951, the Mutual Logistics Support Agreement, the VFA and the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement.

The Party calls on the Filipino people to stand firmly for the country’s sovereignty and fight against foreign military intervention and push for the removal of all US military facilities from Philippine soil, as well as the dismantling of all Chinese military installations in the West Philippine Sea.