The Philippine Civil War exposed the essence of human civilization very directly.

The civil war, which could have been quickly quelled, lasted for one year and three months until mid-April 2039, when the president-supporting troops attacked Manila and eliminated the last rebels supporting Aquino, ended. During this period, no country directly sent troops to intervene. Although according to the information disclosed after the war, over the past year, China, the United States, and even some Southeast Asian countries provided weapons, equipment, ammunition and drug supplies to both sides through various channels, and even some food and medicine, as if the war had occurred on another planet, the major powers with interest in the Philippines were indifferent.

Without external intervention, the Philippine civil war quickly turned into an endless war of attrition. [bsp;    According to some international organizations, in the first three months of the civil war, four million civilians died, and most of them died in disputes related to resources, especially food. After that, both sides lost their minds and even used food as weapons. For example, at the end of February 2038, after the rebels captured San Fernando, the capital of Pampanga Province, they allowed soldiers to plunder for three days, killing nearly 100,000 civilians and becoming war refugees. A month later, the government forces captured Parayan, the capital of the new Eschean Province controlled by the rebels. In order to retaliate against the rebels' atrocities in San Fernando, they carried out a city-wide purge, killing nearly 50,000 civilians and losing their homes.

Such things happen almost every day throughout the Philippines.

Conservatively estimated that during the Civil War, about 15 million civilians died directly from war, and about 3 million people died from genocide. The latter is mainly concentrated in Mindanao Island in the south, that is, the massacre of local ethnic minorities targeted by Filipinos, mainly Malays, targeting the local ethnic minorities in Mindanao.

However, the direct cause of civilian casualties is not the biggest problem.

At that time, the most serious problem was the indirect consequences caused by the war, that is, the legacy of the catastrophe period was not effectively solved.

By 2038, China and the United States had successively overcome the problem of treating multiple cancers.

More importantly, the production of anti-cancer drugs has increased significantly, and China and the United States have made commitments in the Global Climate Affairs Organization that after meeting their own needs, they will provide assistance to all countries free of charge. To put it bluntly, any country can apply for assistance, at most it only needs to pay production and transportation costs. Some poor countries with a large population can also apply for financial assistance from member states of the Global Climate Affairs Organization.

Compared with food, there is no shortage of anti-cancer drugs.

According to the aid plan officially announced by China at the end of 2037, in 2038, one billion servings of anti-cancer drugs will be provided to other countries. If the aid commitment made by the United States is included, China and the United States will be able to provide at least one.7 billion people in other countries that year.

Of course, China and the United States are so generous, and their starting point is not to preserve human civilization.

In the aid list released by China, eight major allies, as well as friendly countries with close economic exchanges such as Egypt, Syria, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Sudan, were given enough quotas, and the United States' aid targets were mainly countries with close economic exchanges.

It can be seen that in terms of drug aid, both China and the United States play economic cards.

To put it simply, it is to protect their own sub-markets through assistance, so that these countries have enough productivity and large enough markets. From an economic perspective, this is equivalent to protecting their country's basic industries, especially high-end industries that require a broad market and a large amount of resources. If aid is not provided, the labor force of these countries will drop sharply by 30% within two to three years, which will inevitably have a serious impact on China and the United States, which occupy the top position of the economic system, resulting in a decrease in production efficiency and a severe blow to their country's high-end industries. Only by protecting the production location of the lower market and primary industrial products can the economic structure of China and the United States be not seriously affected and can they continue to maintain their leading position.

Of course, politically speaking, this is also the basis for dividing the strategic pattern.

From this we can see that when China and the United States expand their sphere of influence, there are only two standards: one is resources and the other is labor.

Relatively speaking, the latter is more important.

In fact, after experiencing the technological outbreak during the global natural disaster period, the resource problems faced by China and the United States have been alleviated.

When it comes to resources, there are only two most important things: one is energy and the other is food.

To put it more in depth, there is only one: energy.

With the gradual maturity of controlled fusion nuclear technology, especially the related research of the second-generation controlled fusion nuclear power plants fueled by deuterium and tritium has made major breakthroughs. It is expected to reach practicality within ten to twenty years, energy is no longer a bottleneck restricting the development of human civilization. It can be said that as long as the second-generation controlled fusion nuclear power plants are released, energy will become an inexhaustible resource. You must know that the deuterium and tritium contained in the Earth's ocean alone can be used for human civilization for 10 million years, and these two elements in the universe are almost inexhaustible.

In this way, oil, which was previously regarded as a strategic resource, is no longer so important.

From the perspective of technological development, at most by 2045, when China's controllable fusion nuclear power plants provided 60% of the country's energy, the main purpose of oil was not to burn, but to become a cheap chemical raw material for the production of chemical products such as fertilizers.

When the energy problem is solved, agricultural production efficiency is no longer a problem, and food is naturally not a problem.

It can be said that as long as there is a need, it only takes ten years at most, and China's agricultural factories can produce enough food to meet the normal consumption of all mankind.

In addition, thanks to breakthroughs in energy technology, the problems brought by other resources have become minimal.

It can even be said that as long as the energy is not restricted, even environmental protection issues that pose a serious threat to the survival of human civilization will become history. The reason is very simple. After the fossil fuel is eliminated, the carbon dioxide emissions of human daily life and production will be reduced by more than 80%. In the words of some scientists, perhaps fifty years later, what needs to be concerned about is not the warming of the climate, but the cooling caused by insufficient carbon dioxide emissions. Perhaps at that time, some fossil fuels need to be burned regularly to increase the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere. Of course, this is just a joke prediction, because the carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere is about 604 trillion tons, while only about 40 trillion tons are emitted by human production and life, and the remaining 60 trillion tons are produced by bacteria.

In any case, within the next ten to twenty years, resources will no longer be the key issue restricting national development.

In this way, labor has become a crucial factor.

Technology is progressing, but human civilization itself has not progressed. As long as the concept of "country" still exists, the concept of hierarchy in human society will not be eliminated. The result is that countries that have mastered advanced technology will definitely seek the best interests and will also divide the society through various means to ensure that they are at the top of productivity and thus occupy more social resources.

In fact, this is also the basis for China and the United States to strive to establish a regional economy with itself as its core.

Among regional economies that cover many countries, the most important thing is labor. Only when the labor force is sufficient can enough social wealth be produced and the countries that occupy the top can obtain enough wealth. Therefore, China and the United States are spared no effort to win over countries with a large population.

It can be said that the development has just reached this point, which just confirms the saying "there are many people and the power is great".

By early 2038, the total population of economies led by China was 2.8 billion, while the total population of economies led by the United States was 2.4 billion, and the total population of economies led by the European Union was 1.3 billion, and the total population of economies led by Russia was 600 million.

The comparison of the total population also reflects the strength comparison of the semi-finals.

From another aspect, the comparison of the total population actually reflects the productivity of the top four in major strategic resources. Around 2038, the most important strategic resource was food, and the larger the grain output was, the more labor it could control.

As for anti-cancer drugs, they are just means to protect the labor force.

At this time, looking at the impact of the Philippine civil war, it is not difficult to understand the fundamental reason.

For the United States, if the Philippines turns to China, the gap between China and the United States will be widened one step closer. Only by making the Philippines have no value can this gap be reduced. For China, it is naturally a good thing to be able to absorb the Philippines, but when the food quota has been used up, blind expansion will only be a heavy burden, which will have a negative impact on sustainable development and even lead to the collapse of the entire economic system.

Obviously, this is definitely not a good thing for the Philippines.

As early as 2037, the Philippines filed a request for assistance and reached agreements with several Southeast Asian countries to obtain considerable aid funds.

Without this war, the Philippines would have received assistance in 2038.

Affected by the war, neither China nor the United States provided formal assistance to the Philippines. They only provided some anti-cancer drugs to the Philippine government forces and rebels through smuggling and other means, so that the government forces and rebels could use drugs as weapons to control more civilians.

After the war, the Philippines Provisional Government conducted a census at the end of 2039.

The result was that in this country, which had more than 110 million people in 2034, only about 30 million people were left at this time. If the total population of the Philippines was about 70 million before the outbreak of the civil war, then the war claimed at least 40 million lives. Apart from the deaths directly caused by the civil war, about 22 million people died of cancer because they did not receive timely medical assistance.

It can be said that this is a shocking number.

You know, during this year, only about four million people died of cancer in the Fusang area.
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