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They are wrong about the second thing - China does not sell weapons to the Philippines, but equipment. There was one (a single one) instance where they sent a handful of rifles after an isis affiliated group took over a major town on Mindanao island. Considering their relations with India I also doubt they provide weapons, but I'm too lazy to look it up right now.
my mistake, apparently India doesn't receive Chinese support. But Phillipines and Nepal certainly did.
Yes, this was the first part of that single shipment they made to fight against the ISIS terrorists who captured Marawi city on Mindanao island in 2017. Note that the Reuters report is what the Filipino government said (that they hope there are weapons in it), and gives no timeline on when they would receive this shipment. The shipment referred to here (https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2114152/china-arms-philippine-police-counterterrorism-mission), in late 2017, has actual evidence of delivery and calls it a second batch.
The takeover of Marawi was an outright siege of the city and it took the government months to take it back. An estimated 100 civilians died during the takeover, most of them killed by the terrorists.
There are an estimated 4 million guns in circulation in the Philippines, plus around 1 million owned by the police. 3000 M4 rifles is a drop in the ocean - it comes out to less than 0.1% guns added to the country. If you've been to the Philippines there are security guards everywhere, even patrolling the streets, and they carry guns openly.
edit: moreover the "maoist" Nepali government is social democrat at best. I don't think they're all that relevant or worth considering their point of view, they clearly don't know what marxism even is.
Do you think that the Filipino police only used those guns to combat actual ISIS terrorists? They probably killed communists or worse, ordinary people with those weapons later. Even if China isn't the main supplier of the Philippines, they are still involved.
And about Nepal, Nepalese Maoists controlled 80% of the country before capitulating, and managed to abolish a literal feudal monarchy. How many parties post-1991 did anything close to that? Its true there's a lot of opportunism in Nepal nowadays, but the parties are slowly starting to merge into the RCPN.
What makes you say this?
There are 6 maoist parties in nepal, and these are just the 'relevant' ones (in quotes because I can't say how relevant they actually are, just that these are the ones you'll hear about). the CPN (self-proclaimed maoist), government leader until 2024, was defeated in elections and is now part of the opposition. The CPN was ruling alongside socdem parties in a coalition. Not to be confused with the CPN-UML, Unified Marxist-Leninist, which despite using the hammer and sickle are also closer to socdems
The extent of the revolution in Nepal was to drive out the monarchy, which is good, but even liberals have done that (famously). It's not a sufficient feat to call them communists over this. They haven't removed monarchists either, there is a monarchist party (Rastriya Prajatantra) still in congress.