TOUGH and reassuring. This was how former Senator Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson described the reply of President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. to China’s callout to the Philippines to return the Typhon missile system to the United States.
According to Lacson, President Marcos’s stance to return the Typhon missiles if China stopped harassing Filipinos in the West Philippine Sea at least left some space for possible talks between the two countries.
“Having come from the security sector in my previous life—I refer to my previous careers as an intelligence officer and law enforcer, as well as a senator and chairman of the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security—hearing some toughness from the President’s statement in upholding our sovereignty over the territorial waters in the WPS while leaving some space for possible talks with China is reassuring, to say the least,” said Lacson.
Lacson also said he does not see the need to convene the National Security Council over the matter at least for now, “because the situation does not call for it.”
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