Successful Japan-Brunei alliance against Spain

I was thinking what if the Japan and Brunei were able to expel the Spanish in the Philippines in the late 1500s restoring the old status quo in that archipelago only with Brunei with a stronger hold in that archipelago what would be the consequences of this to the Spanish..and the New World.
 
I was thinking what if the Japan and Brunei were able to expel the Spanish in the Philippines in the late 1500s restoring the old status quo in that archipelago only with Brunei with a stronger hold in that archipelago what would be the consequences of this to the Spanish..and the New World.

What does Japan gain from this arrangement?
 

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I was thinking what if the Japan and Brunei were able to expel the Spanish in the Philippines in the late 1500s restoring the old status quo in that archipelago only with Brunei with a stronger hold in that archipelago what would be the consequences of this to the Spanish..and the New World.
You have just trimmed the Spanish income in the decades before terrible crisis. In this ATL, Eighty Years War ends faster but still catastrophically to Spain. In later stages of war, Spain strongly relied on mercenaries, and lack of gold therefore directly translates to military defeats. Stronger Dutch East Indies and may be formation of Belgium is averted, OTL Belgium being instead firmly part of Netherlands?? Colonial empires balance is not much disrupted though, and no Belgium mean the Congo area in Africa remain not colonised for longer, may be taken by some other marginal colonial power like Germany, Russia or even Poland.
 
You have just trimmed the Spanish income in the decades before terrible crisis. In this ATL, Eighty Years War ends faster but still catastrophically to Spain. In later stages of war, Spain strongly relied on mercenaries, and lack of gold therefore directly translates to military defeats. Stronger Dutch East Indies and may be formation of Belgium is averted, OTL Belgium being instead firmly part of Netherlands?? Colonial empires balance is not much disrupted though, and no Belgium mean the Congo area in Africa remain not colonised for longer, may be taken by some other marginal colonial power like Germany, Russia or even Poland.
I think Isabella Clara Eugenia might have kids as a part of the butterflies and they inherit the Spanish Netherlands and the Austrian Habsburgs might go Protestant at one point after their split.
 
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