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President Marcos has now inexorably swung our foreign policy and national security concerns towards the US and its proxies in the region
Of late, a former presidential spokesman, lawyer Harry Roque, claimed there was a verbal agreement between FPRRD and Pres. Xi on the fate of the BRP Sierra Madre, which was immediately denied by yet another former spokesman, lawyer Salvador Panelo.Meanwhile, in the latest encounter between a Philippine supply boat escorted by our coast guard, Chinese vessels sent strong volleys of water cannons on our hapless countrymen, some sustaining minor injuries.
The senator warns “such largesse has been the fuel to never-ending conflict as we still see in Ukraine and Gaza,” and adds “declarations of support lack credibility where a rules-based international order is loudly invoked amid the mute refusal to ratify the UNCLOS,” clearly referring to the US of A which, to this date, has not ratified the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the principal arguments we utilize against China’s claim on almost the entirety of the SCS.
I recall that during the 2022 campaign, in a televised DZRH interview, then candidate Marcos Jr. said if we invoke American assistance in the face of the conflicting claims on the SCS with China, “that would mean war.” It is the same tactic it has been using in Taiwan, tiring the defense capabilities of what it calls its “renegade province” while raising up the ante on threats of an eventual take-over.
Bear in mind that Xi Jinping cannot “lose face” before the hundredth anniversary of the Communist Party of China, while Biden faces a November election where his chances are imperiled by the resurrection of the “un-hinged” Trump.
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