General Precolonial Philippines Ideas Thread

So if we have a TL where Japan (more stable and expansionistic) advances along the Kuriles/Kamchatka/Alaska route to colonise the New World (for whatever reason, and they eventually reach down to Vancouver Island and the Pacific Northwest), and China is divided and a faction of the Chinese are open to trying to counter Japan here, is Manila Bay/northern Luzon directly in the path of China unlike OTL? Spain certainly found Manila a vital seaport to traversing the Pacific, and here China has a lot more reason to focus their influence before they permanently subjugate local rulers. China would love a way to visit California (and the goldfields) without going with the Japanese/North Asian currents which leave them vulnerable to the Japanese.

And centuries after China subjugates this area, how "Sinic" is Luzon? Would they use an indigenous script like they had or have invented a Sinic script descendent (like Japan) to write their language? I do like how in any TL (even our own), the Philippines can easily be a wildcard for the region.

Northern Luzon is not close or a place of interest to China because they deleted the place from their maps and also under Majapahit influence which is one of the reasons why its history is illusive and secretive, if they would want to expand it would be Vietnam and Borneo as OTL...although Manila bay and Southern Luzon was the area of interest of the Chinese.
 
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