The Duterte ruling clique benefits from two kinds of relations. First are the official relations to the Chinese government, the banks and corporations. Second are the criminal relations with the Chinese triads and the smuggling and gambling syndicates.

It is Duterte who is clearly culpable for the termination of the peace negotiations in contempt of the people's desire for these

Increased police presence and patrols on campuses to intimidate the book-carrying teachers and students will further reduce the number of police from their previous haunts, promote criminality off the campuses and give more space to the revolutionary forces in the battlefield.

But the aforesaid repressive tactics of the tyrannical Duterte regime achieve the opposite

He is aggravating them and escalating the exploitation and oppression of the people.

Subsequently the nomination was withdrawn due to the hostility of the Duterte regime

The basic problems of imperialism, feudalism and bureaucrat capitalism persist, are aggravated by the traitorous, brutal and corrupt Duterte regime and continue to drive the people to wage armed revolution.

Duterte is publicly saying ad nauseam that there must be charter change to give him absolute powers or else he would proclaim a “revolutionary government”.