{"id":222089,"date":"2019-07-08T21:36:52","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T01:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=222089"},"modified":"2019-07-08T21:36:52","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T01:36:52","slug":"sisons-us-backed-coup-claim-just-wishful-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/07\/08\/sisons-us-backed-coup-claim-just-wishful-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Sison\u2019s US-backed coup claim just &#8216;wishful thinking&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_186105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-186105\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Joma-Sison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-186105\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Joma-Sison.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Joma-Sison.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Joma-Sison-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-186105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Saturday, Sison issued a statement claiming that the US could influence a coup, after Duterte dared the US to fire the \u201cfirst shot\u201d against China over the maritime territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/web.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10208253053994681&amp;amp;set=picfp.1552912313&amp;amp;type=3&amp;amp;theater\">Photo: Joma Sison\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday dismissed the claim of self-exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison that the United States could influence the Philippine military to stage a coup attempt against the Duterte administration.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesman Salvador Panelo said this is nothing but \u201cwishful thinking\u201d from a \u201ctired, old, failed revolutionary\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is pitiful that this man has to rely on a foreign country to effect a change of leadership in this country. It is an admission, in fact, that their revolution has failed,\u201d Panelo said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the US will not listen to Sison, because the communist leader himself detests America.<\/p>\n<p>Panelo also expressed confidence that a coup attempt against the administration will not prosper, saying that \u201cFilipinos trust this President; the military and the police trust this President\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Sison issued a statement claiming that the US could influence a coup, after Duterte dared the US to fire the \u201cfirst shot\u201d against China over the maritime territorial dispute in the West Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n<p>The CPP along with its armed wing, New People\u2019s Army (NPA) is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the Philippines.\u00a0<em><strong>(Steffi Ramos, OJT\/PNA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; Malaca\u00f1ang on Monday dismissed the claim of self-exiled Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founder Jose Maria Sison that &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":186105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1145,16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headline","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222090,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222089\/revisions\/222090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}