Because they are using different methods but with the same motives, which is to acquire the country's minerals and natural resources. I just remember the tons and tons of gold on a boat from Philippines to the US after the war, which was given as a gift because they have few gold reserve.
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To the best of my knowledge, the U.S. has never taken the natural resources of another country. I suspect that if the U.S. did remove gold from the Philippines after World War II that it was part of the gold that the Japanese had hidden there. In any case, the U.S. has given vast sums of money to the Philippines in the years since World War II.