Rogue Generals: A Different Post-EDSA Uno Philippines TL

Chapter Fifty-Seven: Devil Spawns of Anarchy



PEOPLE'S ARMED POLICE CHECKPOINTS IN HAMI TARGETED BY CAR BOMBS, UYGHUR SEPARATISTS MAIN SUSPECTS IN THE ATTACK
South China Morning Post
November 25, 1997


Members of the People's Armed Police, or China's national gendarmerie, are deployed to the bombed checkpoint in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region's city of Hami. Earlier, a car bomb had been detonated at several checkpoints, killing a few PAP members.

(Hami, XINJIANG AUTONOMOUS REGION) - Security officials in the Xinjiang city of Hami today, have confirmed reports of a series of car bombings that targeted multiple checkpoints crewed by the People's Armed Police. Municipal police officers, acting in collaboration with both the People's Armed Police and agents of the Ministry of State Security, have suspected Uyghur terrorists linked to the outlawed Turkistan Islamic Party, as the responsible party involved in the attack. Upon closer inspection of the scenes of the attack, MSS agents have concluded that the Uyghur terrorists could not have pulled off such a sophisticated series of chain attacks, meaning that they somehow had help from other parties. Official casualty reports indicate that up to 13 civilians in the city of Hami, have been killed by the car bombs, with an additional 59 injured civilians that have been reported to authorities.

"The terrorists that were responsible for the attack on Hami, we have but one message to you: we will not negotiate with you. We will hunt you down and punish you in ways that your enemies could not even dream of," an unnamed MSS spokesperson announced during a press release. "The attacks only confirm our suspicions that the Uyghur separatists are possibly gaining help for the attacks from two nations that we know of: Turkey, and the Philippines."

Suspicion immediately fell on the Tadiar fascist dictatorship in the Philippines, whose insistence on their perpetual state of war with China, have resulted in additional PLA military exercises designed to intimidate the Filipino reactionaries into signing the peace treaty that they refused to sign in Berlin a few years ago, and convincing them of China's sovereignty over the Nansha Islands. However, regional Communist Party boss for Chongqing, Bo Xilai, have also accused the Turkish Republic of sponsoring such an attack on the checkpoints in Xinjiang, citing the Pan-Turkist ideology as the main motivator. Chongqing Party boss Bo's accusations towards Turkey is agreed upon with various segments of the MSS and the PLA, who stands to gain from acquiring the former Soviet military base in Gyumri, Armenia. Even so, Premier Jiang Zemin has revealed that the Turkish and Filipino governments are in talks of establishing a training camp, where Uyghur separatists will be given the training needed to attack China. In addition, the Premier has also ordered the PLAAF to be ready at a moment's notice, for when the bombing missions will resume, although Comrade General Wang Dongxing has expressed concerns that the bombing missions will be more difficult, given the American government's open violations of the UN arms embargo imposed on the Tadiar dictatorship.

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MASSIVE AIRPORT BOMBINGS OCCUR THROUGHOUT EASTERN EUROPE! GOVERNMENTS OF RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND UNION STATE OF UKRAINE AND BELARUS DECLARE MARTIAL LAW IN RESPONSE
The Sun
December 10, 1996



Members of the Ukrainian Special Police Force, known as the Berkut, are being deployed into the streets of the Crimean city of Simferopol, after its airport was targeted by Al-Qaeda backed terrorists.

(Kiev, UKRAINE) - Just only two and a bit weeks left until Christmas left, and already there is tragedy, as Al-Qaeda-linked terrorists have carried out a chain of airplane bombings in the cities of Rostov-on-the-Don, Simferopol, Kutaisi, and Vitebsk. Officials from those governments indicate that as many as 400 people were killed in the attacks in each cities, bringing it up to around 1,200 to 1,300 civilians dead, including airport staff, who were killed in the blast as well. In response to the string of bombings in the airports, the governments of Russia, Georgia, and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus have declared martial law to deal with the terrorist threat, and also gave orders for all aircraft to be grounded, until martial law was lifted. In addition, all of the targeted nations have deployed most of their medical workers to help their colleagues in the airports where the attacks have occurred.

"The threat of Islamic terrorist attacks are real, and in fact, we have already been on the front lines in this new War on Terror," says Russian President Gennady Burbulis, during a briefing in the Duma. "From Central Asia, to the Caucasus, we are seeing disenfranchised young people being vulnerable to the radicalization efforts by outside players, namely Al-Qaeda."

An Islamist uprising has broken out only hours after the airport bombings have occurred, with the Russian military being deployed to the Autonomous Republic of Dagestan, where Al-Qaeda had managed to establish their presence there. This, in addition to increased instability inside Kazakhstan, has forced the Burbulis government to mobilize the rest of the Russian military for a potential intervention, to the fears of the international community, who were divided between confronting the Islamist threat seeking to destroy the Russian Federation, and condemning Russia for what they see as another potential military invasion, for the first time since the Second Russian Civil War. In addition, the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus has deployed the predominantly Ukrainian soldiers into Crimea, where a failed attempt to establish a Crimean cell of Al-Qaeda had been reported. Finally, Georgia's government under President Zviad Gamsakhurdia has announced the deployment of Georgian soldiers to the border with Russia's North Caucasus Autonomous Republics.

"Georgia finds itself on the front lines against Islamist terrorism, and we did not even provoke the Muslims into attacking us. However, because we are merely a transit route into the predominantly Muslim majority regions in the North Caucasus, an attack on us is vital for their goals," Gamsakhurdia says while addressing the Georgian Parliament. "Rest assured however, that Georgia will stand by our friends in the North against this new threat."

In the meanwhile, incoming flights into various airports throughout Russia, Georgia, and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, as well as outgoing flights out of the same airports, have been suspended, with tourists encouraged to redirect their journeys through either Lithuania, Finland, Latvia, and Estonia, if they intend to go to those states. However, tourists wishing to go to Georgia will have a tougher time, as Turkey had announced the closure of its borders with both Georgia and Armenia, in response to a renewed threat coming from the latter, as the Vazgen Manukyan administration is set to sign a formal alliance with China.

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Opinion Piece: The True Winner of the Spratlys Conflict
PolitBlog
By: Giselle Dunois
September 19, 2020

It is easy to assume that China had won the Spratlys conflict, with the unilateral annexation of the entirety of the Spratly Islands, and the takeover of the former Soviet naval base at Cam Ranh Bay, just as it is easy to assume that SE Asia as a whole lost the war. However, I believe that neither side had actually won the conflict at all. Far from it, the nation that stood to benefit the most from the conflict, was neither the United States, or even the Russian Federation. Surprisingly, it was Japan who benefited from the conflict, albeit indirectly, as they positioned themselves to become the savior who helped the Philippines and Vietnam from their post-war condition. I don't know if the Japanese government had manipulated the situation at hand, but I am most certain that it had something to do with the recent revelation that the CIA had sent an affiliate with the notorious Corsairs into Japan, to scout for a possible ally that would agree with Jack Kemp's definition of a multi-polar New World Order. Both Paul Manafort, and the CEO of Breitbart Consulting Ltd., Steve Bannon, played a role in creating the Japanese Deep State, centered around Toshio Tamogami. Tamogami was the real power behind the throne, as he had the final say on who gets to become the Prime Minister of Japan. His ascension into the shadow throne began years before he officially declared his intention to run in the 2017 Japanese election, which he narrowly lost to Yukio Edano. Yet, it was suspected that he intentionally lost the election, just so he could remain in the shadows, where he could operate with impunity. The suspicion however, is met with skepticism, as Yukio Edano's party was anything but conservative. Still, it was a clever set up, what Bannon and Manafort had done. It was Tamogami who made the hard decisions, selecting suitable front men like Sadakazu Tanigaki, who served as the Prime Minister of Japan in 2002, until the first constitutional amendment on term limits were passed, with a two term limit, consisting of five years per term. After 2007, Tanigaki fell out of power, and was replaced with Masahiko Komura, who began to lead a stridently anti-China faction.

The power struggles between the pro-East Asian unity faction within the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, against the hardline anti-China faction, which favored closer relations with the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, and other anti-China nations, resulted in the split within the party, as the pro-East Asian unity faction eventually defected to the Social Democratic Party in 2010, while the anti-China faction eventually merged with Tamogami's own National Rebirth Party, and Makoto Sakurai's Japan First Party, to form the largest right-wing populist party in Japan, the United Japan Party. Yet, Tamogami did not simply stop with the infiltration of the Japanese political system. He also gathered like minded officers within the Japan Self-Defense Force, and indoctrinated them into his way of thinking. Tamogami can be compared to the likes of China's murdered PLA officer Ye Fei, in that both men had sought to rebuild their respective country's dominant tributary systems. The only difference is that Tamogami's so-called Second Japanese Empire has met with more opposition from both China and the Korean Federal Republic, due to their historical grievances against Japan. Tamogami has learned his lessons well from the CIA Corsairs in the art of creating a network of sympathizers who are interested in using the deep state concept to subvert true political diversity, as the liberals and those Japanese politicians who want to maintain a cordial relationship with China and Korea are finding themselves increasingly isolated and marginalized, allowing the hardliners to emerge stronger. Anti-Chinese sentiment in Japan has traditionally been rooted in both post-war anti-communism and the historical lost of respect for China among the Japanese militarists who were the driving force behind the atrocities committed by the Japanese Army during WWII, but with Tamogami's creeping influence inside the Japanese government, the world might experience a more ideologically and racially based form of Sinophobia. The Chinese bombing campaigns against both Vietnam and the Philippines have resulted in the resurgence of Sinophobia, as was evident by both Vietnamese and Filipino collaboration in committing acts of piracy that targeted both PLAN warships, and civilian ships controlled by China. For instance, the infamous Emerald Prince incident of March 29, 1997, where a combined number of Vietnamese and Filipino special forces troops had hijacked the Chinese cruise ship 'Emerald Prince', and upon their discovery of numerous Chinese civilians inside, the hijackers demanded that the passengers empty their wallets and pockets, before proceeding to steal the money, and afterwards, the hijackers began to violently assault the hostages. What happened next, was something that the international community had thoroughly condemned: the hijackers planted several bombs inside the ship, and detonated it, only after executing the hostages, including the staff members who worked aboard the ship. The 'Emerald Prince' was sunk in the vicinity of Hainan Island, causing an uproar from within the Chinese public. It was because of this action that the UN had imposed economic sanctions on Vietnam, but the seeds for Vietnam's collapse of its communist government had been planted in that same incident.

Japan too, should have taken responsibility for the notorious hijacking of China Eastern Air Flight 439, because some of the Japanese volunteers had joined Aum Shinrikyo, in their pursuit of a bigger thrill in their desire to cause mayhem against the Chinese communist government. Out of the 27 hijackers who took over the aircraft, 15 of them were Japanese citizens, while the remaining few were either members of the Taiwanese Bamboo Union, Filipino NISA agents accompanying the hostage takers, and two Americans named Timothy McVeigh and David Koresh. The American hostage takers built the bomb that exploded aboard the aircraft, while the Aum Shinrikyo members would torture both Ye Fei and Chinese Premier Jiang Zemin, who were aboard the aircraft. The attack had occurred on July 23, 1998, the 77th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, meaning that the guilty party responsible for the biggest terrorist attacks after the chain of airport bombings that occurred back in 1997 in Russia, Georgia, and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus, had specifically chosen the date to humiliate China, and to satisfy their revenge. In addition, Japan's sponsorship of the radical Nicanor Faeldon faction within the Tadiar regime had brought out the worst in Philippine society, who began to clamour for the rehabilitation of the Japanese-sponsored puppet government of the Second Philippine Republic, and the notorious Filipino collaborators who worked with the Japanese. In addition, many methods employed by the former Kempeitai were adopted by Tadiar's secret police, and in fact, there is also a growing revival for the current Japanese intelligence agency to be remodeled after both the Kempeitai, and its civilian counterpart, the Tokubetsu Koto Keisatsu, or the Tokko.

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1998 FIFA World Cup France

Qualified Teams:

AFC: Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Japan
CAF: Nigeria, Egypt, Congo, Cameroon, Morocco
CONCACAF: Mexico, United States, Costa Rica
CONMEBOL: Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Chile, Brazil (world champions)
OFC: Australia (Australia defeated China with a score of a 4-1 aggregate)
UEFA: Croatia, England, Norway, Scotland, Russia, Spain, Belgium, Romania, Germany (group winners), Netherlands (1st place in rankings of 2nd placed teams), Sweden, Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Italy (playoff winners)

Playoffs:

Sweden vs Lithuania (Sweden wins on a 5-1 aggregate)
Greece vs Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia wins on a 1-1 aggregate with 1 away goal)
Hungary vs Ukraine (Ukraine wins on a 2-1 aggregate)
Italy vs Bulgaria (Italy wins on a 3-1 aggregate)


Group A: France, Sweden, South Korea, Mexico
Group B: Spain, Norway, Australia, United States
Group C: Romania, Netherlands, Colombia, Nigeria
Group D: England, Scotland, Chile, Cameroon
Group E: Germany, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, Morocco
Group F: Brazil, Russia, Japan, Congo
Group G: Belgium, Croatia, Paraguay, Egypt
Group H: Argentina, Yugoslavia, Italy, Costa Rica

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MEXICAN ARMY RETAKES BORDER TOWN OF CHAHUITES FROM ERP, CHAPARRO GRATEFUL FOR NEWLY ARRIVED SHIPMENT OF AMERICAN ARMS
Dallas Morning Tribune
May 12, 1997


A Mexican Army ERC-90 F4 Sagaie bombards an enemy position in the outskirts of the border town of Chahuites. Air support provided by the US Air Force, along with Mexican ground troops' advances into the rest of Oaxaca Province, had resulted in the liberation of the entire province from the ERP.

(Chahuites, OAXACA PROVINCE) - The arrival of several new M30 mortars, M551 Sheridans, and most importantly, 18 Bell AH-1 SuperCobra attack helicopters, were instrumental in the string of successful Mexican Army offensives throughout Oaxaca province, as the border town of Chahuites was restored to government control, after several months of ERP occupation. When the first Mexican Army soldier stepped inside the newly liberated town of Chahuites, they saw several rotting bodies decomposing while entering an abandoned house. Upon further discovery, it was revealed that the ERP had rounded up suspected 'counterrevolutionaries' and had them executed. The scenes of such carnage had resulted in a massive bombing campaign provided by the US Air Force (on General Chaparro's recommendation), which targeted Chiapas Province, especially the bases used by the ERP's main allies, the Zapatista forces.

"The fight against the communists in Mexico's southeastern regions continue on a regular basis, and I have to admit that while our army is performing well, we will need every assistance as we could possibly acquire," announces General Chaparro during a press conference. "Which is why I have accepted American President Kemp's offer of military assistance in our fight against the communists and their lackeys. In addition, I have also contacted the South Korean ambassador to Mexico, to see if he could contact his superiors in Seoul, for assistance as well. The Mexican military is in a need of modernization, even if we will emerge victorious."

The possibility of a South Korean military assistance to Mexico is difficult, given the long distance between the two nations. However, Chaparro is hesitant to ask the Chileans for help with the modernization of Mexico's military, given that his political opponents are already comparing him to Chile's notorious dictator, Augusto Pinochet. Moreover, Chaparro is also being compared to widely reviled military dictator Artemio Tadiar, a comparison that he was glad to accept all too well, and in fact, he has approached Tadiar with a request for assistance once again. The Tadiar dictatorship responded warmly to Chaparro's request, given that Filipino volunteers had been deployed into Chiapas back in 1994, until they were pulled out of southeastern Mexico in order to prepare for a possible Chinese amphibious invasion. Yet, Chaparro, in his first address since taking power, has lashed out at Mexico's elites for the chronic poverty that allowed the communist movement to regain its lost influence, especially with the presence of the ERP and the Zapatistas. In Seoul, South Korean President Kim Young-sam responded to the South Korean ambassador to Mexico's message that he received, plus the request for military assistance from General Chaparro.

"While I would be happy to send a few of our troops to help the Mexican government restore stability in its troubled regions, we are not comfortable with what we are seeing in Mexico City. The presence of a military dictator in a region so close to the United States can be really disturbing, while we, the Korean people, know too well about military dictatorships," says President Kim, referencing the former Park Chung-hee dictatorship. "However, we will not rule out the possibility of enhancing our defense ties to Mexico, and in fact, we are open to the idea of helping General Chaparro's desire to reform the Mexican Armed Forces. Moreover, because Mexico is not under UN sanctions, we are open to additional economic opportunities between our two nations."

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"The transformation of the Philippines into the dumping ground for deposed military dictators and their supporters have been a rather brutal affair. Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship in Iraq, several hundreds of former Ba'ath Party members, many of whom were also officers in the Iraqi military (except for the officers in the Iraqi Navy, who were forced to serve the Special Administrative Jurisdiction of Basra), had arrived in the Philippines back in January 1, 1997, while at the same time selling what was left of their chemical weapon stockpile to the Tadiar regime. In fact, only 13% of the wealth taken from the exiled Filipino Chinese families was used to purchase those chemical weapons, which would later be used to its most devastating effect in the 2002-2004 Second Korean War. Next, the deposed officers of the Burmese junta who lost the Burmese Civil War to the pro-Chinese factions in the Northern Alliance had arrived in the Philippines, carrying with them vital information on Chinese military capabilities that the Tadiar regime had craved. Finally, just two months before the infamous Shanghai Oriental Pearl and Radio Tower attack, several former South African Army officers had arrived in the Philippines, because they refused to serve in the post-apartheid government. It was the South African officers that Tadiar was most hesitant, primarily because of their anti-Black, and anti-Asian rhetoric. Officers like Constand Viljoen, Georg Meiring, and Johannes Gendenhuys arrived in the Philippines, with the experience they acquired from the Border Wars, in which they fought viciously against left-wing guerrillas in Namibia and Angola. Yet, after 2000, those same South African officers would later become the first former military officers to be recruited by the CIA, but they would be attached to the Corsairs. It was these former South African officers who would eventually become the founders of a private military contractor company, known as the Special Security Service Group. The Special Security Service Group was officially founded as an Indonesia-based PMC company, but had three branches running throughout the Philippines. It competed with both Sandline International and the Strategic Resource Corporation (though operating under the name Executive Outcomes, which was founded by fellow former South African Defense Force officer Eeben Barlow) for top jobs throughout Africa and Asia, and the CIA was interested in giving some of its more unsavoury jobs to the PMCs. It was these PMCs (essentially mercenaries) who would employ both former and active military personnel from the Philippines, Myanmar, Vietnam, Indonesia, large parts of Africa, and Latin America, though the Special Security Service Group would hire mostly former soldiers from the nations listed, for missions in Latin America. In one incident, members of the Special Security Service Group had been responsible for capturing one Zapatista cell in the border between Chiapas and Campeche, resulting in over 21 Zapatistas falling under PMC captivity. These Zapatista POWs were sent to interrogation centers, where Mexican intelligence agents had engaged in torture, to extract information out of the captured Zapatistas. Another group of mercenaries working for Special Security Service Group would be sent to fight the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, though the ascension of General Ramon Rodriguez Chacin as the new military dictator of Venezuela would scupper the CIA Corsairs' plans for installing a Venezuelan Artemio Tadiar figure into power, and drive out the PMC mercenaries out of Colombia." Alex Jones and Monica Lewinsky, from the Documentary "The Land of Renegade Warlords: How the CIA Corsairs Turned the Philippines into a Dumping Ground for Exiled Generals", sponsored by 'The American Cause', released in 2006, years after "Corporate America's Dirty Little Secret", released in 1999.

While it is hinted that he would be a Senator, I would probably say that his potential clashes with both Adam Schiff and James Traficant would be one of the factors in his downfall. Of course, the real question is, who is Monica going to marry ITTL? Will it be Alex Jones, or his best ATL buddy in Isaac Feldman? Keep in mind that Feldman may not even be a real guy IOTL, and he is the main factor in Alex Jones not dropping out of college ITTL.

Another notorious bad habit that I personally found annoying IOTL was the way we dispose of our own garbage, which explains the huge garbage mountains we see today, which thankfully it was deconstructed. I have a feeling that TTL will do more than simply demolishing the cringe habits that we often have IOTL, including the degrading habit of feeding our leftovers to our dogs and cats, which thankfully won’t happen here, as well as the ban on consuming dogs and cats, not only because Tadiar wants to make sure that Filipinos do not end up getting some weird flu from consuming dogs and cats, practically avoiding the situation that leads to pandemics.

As hinted earlier, Ross Perot eventually becomes Governor of Texas. It is how he does it that will be covered in the next update, as well as hopefully, the ATL 1998 FIFA World Cup, and the infamous Oriental Pearl and Radio Tower attack.

The Second Korean War occurs in 2002-2004 of ATL.

Definitely, although I don’t have a TV Tropes account.

Unsure, but just to be on the safe side, I would probably hold off on that idea.

And then when will the Aum attack?

This timeline's version of 9/11 has finally happened.
Irony is that the Philippines of Tadiar has better air defense systems compared to OTL.
You are correct about this term. Some Japanese that still believe in the Pan-Asian struggle consider it to have began on December 8, 1941 and fully ended on April 30, 1975 (when Saigon fell to the NVA). I actually support that the Japanese amend Article 9 since the PRC has become the next threat here.

I'd see the Vietnamese crush the Khmers once more while China will experience what the Soviets tried in Afghanistan.