🇵🇭🇺🇸 | Filipinos are resisting the visit of Marco Rubio to the Philippines. The ASEAN Summit, Southeast Asia's most important international organization, is currently underway in Manila, Philippines. ASEAN was originally founded to "contain communism." BAYAN, one of the Philippines' most influential leftist mass movements, mobilized "to resist US military meddling" and for "genuine freedom and sovereignty." "Marco Rubio's visit to the Philippines brings intensified plunder of our resources and expansion of US military presence," BAYAN writes in a statement. Ahead of the summit, Rubio described Southeast Asia as the region where "the story of the 21st century will be written." During previous visits to ASEAN meetings, US War Secretary Pete Hegseth pushed for a near-endless militarization of US partners against China.